Missing Gesture
Strategic partnerships are not tested when leaders exchange compliments, announce visits or promise trade deals.
Strategic partnerships are not tested when leaders exchange compliments, announce visits or promise trade deals.
Nationalism and secularism are the two basic constituents of modern India.
India drag-flick specialist Deepika credited the specialised training camps organised for the national women's hockey team for helping players improve their skills and deliver strong performances at the FIH Hockey Women's Nations Cup in Auckland.
Asserting that India must take control of its security-related necessities to remain future-ready, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday said that conventional warfare and its associated means remain just as relevant today as they were in 1947.
President Droupadi Murmu on Friday expressed confidence that India would achieve its target of eliminating sickle cell disease by 2047, well ahead of the deadline, through collective efforts.
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has reiterated that India would likely be among the “first” to sign a trade deal with the US following President Donald Trump’s demands for realigning economic relations under the threat of tariffs.
India’s decision to suspend the Indus Waters Treaty marks a bold departure from decades of misplaced restraint. For too long, Pakistan has exported terror across the border with impunity, hiding behind international agreements that assumed basic good faith.
On 22 April, the pristine calm of Baisaran Valley near Pahalgam was ruptured by violence of the most brutal kind. In what is now being called the deadliest civilian-targeted terrorist attack in India since 2008, twenty-six tourists, including a child and a Nepalese national, were murdered in cold blood by militants claiming allegiance to The Resistance Front (TRF), a known proxy of Lashkar-e-Taiba of Pakistan. This was not just an act of horrendous terror.
A day after India responded with a slew of measures including suspending the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT), reducing strength in consulates and stopping all trade, Pakistan displayed bravado.
Addressing a press conference at the BJP headquarters here on Monday, Prasad slammed the Congress leaders, stating that this is a time when the country should speak with a united voice.
