The Indian budget every year has always been an eagerly awaited event. For many decades, the best minds in economics, finance, tax, business and industry throng the media house to analyze the provisions shared by the Financial Minister.
Sometimes major events completely disconnected may be data points for the plans of the different powers around the world. The challenge is to discern what purpose they serve? More critically, what are we moving towards?
When the US Ambassador threatened India's "Strategic Autonomy" policy over India's friendship with Russia - much more than meets the eye was at stake. Let us unpack how the Ukraine war has fundamentally changed the US and the world. And why are we here anyway?
Husain Haqqani is the man the Pakistani establishment loves to hate. Based in the United States since 2012 and unable to return because of various charges levelled against him by the shadowy military-intelligence cabal that is the power behind the civilian throne, Haqqani has become an unrelenting critic of Pakistan’s deep state. In this interview to Strategic News International, he warns that the government of Prime Minister Imran Khan is out of its depth and beholden to the generals in Rawalpindi. He was pessimistic about the prospects for better India-Pakistan relations, seeing no glimmer of hope amid firing across the Line of Control and the lack of communication otherwise. #sniwire #india #pakistan
Attack by Hamas took a lot to accomplish. The sudden Chinese bonhomie with Syria and the bringing together of Arab - Sunni and Shia countries and actors by Xi Jinping's regime raises some questions .
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