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?
Pakistan’s decision to ban the Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) is farcical. The same organisation had been banned twice earlier, in 2008 and again last year. How many more times can the same organisation be banned? In this interview with SNI, Prem Mahadevan, a well known Switzerland based researcher and analyst on international terrorism, says that the activities of the Lashkar-e-Toiba (the parent of the JuD), are currently “on hold” because it is now recognised for what it is. The Jaish-e-Mohammad is relatively less known and gives Pakistan deniability. Mahadevan believes that diplomacy backed by covert strikes, perhaps in Pak Occupied Kashmir (PoK) are a better alternative to overt strikes. But he acknowledges that public anger may leave the government with no option but to carry out an overt strike. #India #Pakistan #Pulwama
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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