As media attention surrounding the commissioning of China’s super-carrier Fujian began to wane, a new set of satellite images from the Dalian shipyard in Liaoning province reignited debates among naval analysts about the propulsion system of China’s next carrier, widely referred to as the Type 004. The imagery highlights a heavily reinforced, cylindrical structure embedded deep within an expanding section of the hull—design features strikingly similar to the reactor containm

In May 2024, India quietly approached the symbolic threshold of completing a full decade under the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)–led right-wing government headed by Prime Minister Narendra Damodardas Modi, a decade that has reshaped the architecture of institutions, the political grammar of dissent, the moral registers of public life, and significantly, the very texture of education in institutions both elite and ordinary. The ordinary is perhaps where the deepest ruptures app

South Africa’s hosting of the G20 Summit in Johannesburg on November 22–23, 2025, marked not only a historic moment for the African continent but also a defining test of Pretoria’s diplomatic maturity, strategic resilience, and political credibility at a time of mounting global crises and internal pressures. For the first time since the G20’s formation in 1999, the Summit was held in Africa, symbolically affirming a shift in global discourse towards inclusive development and

For nearly a decade before Operation Sindoor was formally acknowledged by the Government of India in May 2025, the intellectual erosion of “strategic restraint” had already begun inside the national security establishment. Official briefings would later describe Sindoor as the “first fully integrated coercive-deterrence operation executed under a revised national doctrine,” but internal conversations preceding it stretch back to the aftermath of the 2016 Uri attack. When imag

On November 8, 2025, the Gujarat Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) carried out a dramatic sweep, arresting a Hyderabad-based physician and two associates in what is now being described by Indian authorities as a foiled large-scale bioterrorism conspiracy. The principal figure in the operation is Dr. Ahmed Mohiyuddin Saiyed , aged 35, a doctor originally from Hyderabad, Telangana, who, according to the ATS, has been preparing the highly lethal toxin ricin , derived from castor oil, w

Kashmir Times emerged in 1954 as a weekly publication founded by journalist Ved Bhasin, gradually evolving into a daily newspaper by 1964 in what historians describe as one of the earliest English-language press institutions operating from Jammu and later the Kashmir Valley. Researchers of South Asian media often reference Bhasin’s ideological commitments, and a number of commentators argue that his political sympathies aligned with Kashmiri self-determination narratives, inc

In recent years, a sustained transnational campaign has portrayed the RSS (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh) — a century-old Indian cultural and nationalist organization — as a foreign-influenced entity that ought to register under the U.S. Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) rather than as a standard cultural outreach group under the Lobbying Disclosure Act (LDA) . Proponents of this narrative, notably the media outlet Prism , argue that RSS’s international engagements pose

The publication of Adam Smith’s seminal work An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations in 1776 marked a civilizational pivot, not merely for Britain but for the global economic consciousness that would follow over the next two and a half centuries. Smith’s doctrine of “natural liberty,” premised on the belief that human enterprise flourishes best in an environment of minimal restrictions, provided the intellectual scaffolding for what later evolved into

In the long arc of post-colonial global politics, awards that are ostensibly created to “promote peace” often become political instruments that shape international narratives, influence domestic debates, and manufacture legitimacy for ideological networks that transcend national borders, and the Indira Gandhi Peace Prize stands as one such mechanism whose framing, recipients, and geopolitical linkages increasingly demand a more rigorous national-interest-oriented scrutiny. Th

Bangladesh’s political reconfiguration after Sheikh Hasina’s departure in 2024 did not merely shift power; it opened a vacuum in a nation where power vacuums are rarely neutral. When Mohammad Yunus assumed the role of Chief Advisor and promised an election in 2026, many observers thought Bangladesh would enter a predictable, technocratic transition. But the country’s political ecosystem, shaped by decades of ideological contestation and unfinished historical wounds, had alrea

Jaish-e-Mohammed’s renewed focus on women is being sold as a strategic evolution, but in reality it is nothing more than the recycling of old poison in a new, deceptive bottle. For decades, Pakistan’s deep state has experimented with layered psychological and operational templates in Kashmir. Dukhtaran-e-Millat provided the optics, the public face of modesty enforcement, street-level agitation and soft radicalisation of women; Jaish-e-Mohammed supplied the guns, the doctrine

“The Red Fort blast did not just expose a terror plot―it exposed a foreign ideology breathing down India’s neck.” In the immediate aftermath of the Red Fort blast, public suspicion instinctively drifted towards Pakistan, the habitual architect of cross-border terrorism against India, yet digital forensics and communication intercepts led investigators somewhere far more unexpected: Ankara. For the first time, a major terror-linked trail from Indian soil connected directly to

For centuries, North India has witnessed invasions, land wars, and large-scale civilizational contests―from Panipat to Plassey to 1947, 1965, 1971 and the Kargil conflict of 1999. But today’s strategic reality presents a stark paradigm shift: India’s next major confrontation will not unfold on land, but across the vast maritime expanse that surrounds the Indian peninsula. For the first time in modern history, India’s southern flank―traditionally secure, uncontested, and prote

Shri tejas s.dodia Kautilya has given the Mandal Siddhant, which is concentric circles showing different mandals. It is based on the view that neighbours are natural enemies. Since land is the source of material welfare, neighbours aim to acquire the same piece of land…to achieve that aim, Kautilya has given a strategy of SHADGUNYA SIDDHANT (six-fold policy), which is to be used as per the situation. A shadow is moving quietly and deliberately across the map of South Asia, on

भारतीय राजनीति में कई परिवर्तन आए, नए नेता उभरे, नई पार्टियाँ बनीं, लेकिन एक चीज़ दशकों से बिल्कुल नहीं बदली— गांधी परिवार का व्यवहार, उनका सत्ता-केंद्रित राजनीतिक दृष्टिकोण और जनता को केवल चुनावी “स्टेज” की तरह इस्तेमाल करने की आदत। आज जो घटनाएँ राहुल गांधी के इर्द-गिर्द सामने आ रही हैं, वे कोई नई या अलग बात नहीं; यह उसी पुराने राजनीतिक डीएनए की निरंतरता है, जिसे उनकी पूरी वंशावली पालन करती आयी है। ताज़ा रिपोर्टें बताती हैं कि राहुल गांधी ने उन कांग्रेस नेताओं को बुरी तरह अ

भारत में उदारवादी–सेक्युलर–वामपंथी इकोसिस्टम जिस प्रकार युवा प्रतिभाओं को शुरुआती स्तर से “संरक्षित, प्रशिक्षित और उपयोग” करता है, उसका एक सटीक उदाहरण वकील एडवोकेट एम. हुजैफा के करियर-ट्रैक में स्पष्ट रूप से दिखाई देता है। उनकी प्रोफाइल देखने से यह समझना कठिन नहीं होता कि कैसे वैश्विक लेफ्ट-लिबरल नेटवर्क भारत में वैचारिक रूप से अनुकूल व्यक्तियों को चुनकर एक ऐसी मार्गरेखा पर आगे बढ़ाता है जहाँ नीति-निर्माण, मानवाधिकार विमर्श, डिजिटल एक्टिविज़्म और अंतरराष्ट्रीय एडवोकेसी — सब

उत्तर प्रदेश के बलरामपुर ज़िले का तुलसीपुर नगर पंचायत लंबे समय तक फ़िरोज़ अहमद उर्फ़ पप्पू जी की राजनीतिक पकड़ का केंद्र माना जाता था। फ़िरोज़ अहमद न सिर्फ़ चेयरमैन के पद पर वर्षों तक सक्रिय रहे, बल्कि उन्होंने अपनी राजनीतिक समझ के तहत अपनी पत्नी कहकशां को भी चेयरपर्सन बनवाया, ताकि क्षेत्र पर उनका प्रभाव निरंतर बना रहे। इसी दौरान फ़िरोज़ स्वयं को समाजवादी पार्टी में स्थापित करने और 2022 के विधानसभा चुनाव में तुलसीपुर से टिकट प्राप्त कर चुनाव लड़ने की तैयारी में जुट गए थे। क्ष

“Europe speaks of sustainability but practices regulatory unilateralism; India, a civilisation anchored in ecological balance, is forced to prove what its traditions never violated.” The European Union’s Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), scheduled for full enforcement in December 2025, represents one of the most far-reaching environmental trade regulations introduced by any major economic bloc in the 21st century. Although framed as a climate-driven instrument to curb global d

A New Cold War Reborn: India in the Age of Transactional Empires “India’s strength is not in coercion but in continuity—the civilisational memory of a state that has outlived empires which once claimed to shape its destiny.” The geopolitical theatre of 2025 resembles not a new era but the resurrection of an old pattern , where great powers once again search for pliable client states to fight their peripheral battles. What has changed is not Washington’s grand strategy but its

भारत की शासन-व्यवस्था एक ऐसे परिवर्तनशील मोड़ पर है, जहां कृत्रिम बुद्धिमत्ता—विशेषकर एआई को-पायलट—अब केवल एक मशीन नहीं, बल्कि नए भारत का सबसे ईमानदार डिजिटल साथी बनकर उभर रहा है। यह वह यंत्र नहीं है जिसे मानव निर्देश दे; यह वह तकनीकी सहायक है जो नीति की भाषा समझता है, नियमों की व्याख्या करता है, नागरिकों को मार्गदर्शन देता है और निर्णय-प्रक्रिया को तथ्यों से मजबूती प्रदान करता है। सरकारी तंत्र में जहाँ कभी घंटों की लाइनें, फाइलों का अटकना, काउंटरों के चक्कर और मानवीय निर्भर