A new bright picture of Saudi Arabia
By H.E. Dr Saud M. Al Sati This September 23 marks the 90th anniversary of the unification of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia by the founder King Abdul Aziz bin Abdul Rahman Al Saud. Nine…
Commentary
Focus to shift to Primary market
By Arun Kejriwal The week gone by had plenty of action and was volatile. While the benchmark indices were just about flat, BSEHEALTHCARE and BSEIT gained significant ground and helped the benchmark indices. Similarly post…
Antecedents of anti Muslim bias in media including Sudarshan TV
BY SAEED NAQVI There have been many but let me cite just two reactions from the family to Justices D.Y. Chandrachud, Indu Malhotra and K.M. Joseph’s utterances restraining Sudarshan TV from telecasting its ‘UPSC Jihad’…
India at the hairpin bend
BY HIMANSHU MANGLIK Covid-19 caught the world off-guard. It is embarrassing. It is embarrassing that the economic distress is more acute in India than in the rest of the world, especially when India was projected…
Chinese imperialism poses incurable threat to the world
By Binay Kumar Singh Two viruses have taken over the world. One, a minuscule creature called Covid-19, has killed more than 8,00,000 people around the globe, but is slowing down and will most likely be…
The Indian cricket pantomime ready to explode
By Yajurvindra Singh The entertainment that every Indian cricket lover is so anxiously waiting — the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020 — is about to start. The first match between the two top teams of…
Duplicitous dragon at the door
By Air Marshal (Retd) Harish Masand More than four months have gone by since the PLA upped the ante on the borders with India resulting in an eyeball-to-eyeball confrontation. The confrontation has also been unprecedented…
100-year-old Assam woman beats Covid-19
Guwahati, Sep 16 (SocialNews.XYZ) A 100-year-old woman has been discharged from a hospital here after recovering from Covid-19 on Wednesday, officials said. Health officials said that Mai Handique, a boarder of a Guwahati-based old-age home,…
Single stock rallying markets, unnerving – Time to be cautious
By Arun Kejriwal The week gone by saw markets jump sharply on Thursday and the gains registered on that day were enough to keep indices in positive territory. BSESENSEX gained 497.37 points or 1.30 per…
Politics by blackmail: Eulalie syndrome in Indian public life
BY SAEED NAQVI If the Gandhi trio stirred themselves into action as a serious opposition, is there a possibility that they would end up in jail? If they were spared despite this affront, it would…
Harnessing strategic ties with Dhaka
BY JAYANTA GHOSAL Foreign minister S. Jaishankar has recently written a book on India’s position on the implementation of foreign policy. The book was virtually launched last Thursday in Delhi at a function organised by…
India must play active role in Baloch freedom struggle
By Sobdar Baloch New Delhi, Sep 11 (SocialNews.XYZ) I am often confronted with a question about how to create global awareness about the Balochistan movement. Common answers would be that India, Afghanistan, United States and…
To retire or not: Ours not to reason why, ours but to do & die
By Yajurvendra Singh Retirement finally hits one in all occupations. The world is getting younger and so should the elders if they want to survive the progressive world that is flashing fast before them. Modern…
Last week’s reversal puts markets under pressure
BY ARUN KEJRIWAL Markets were on a roller coaster ride last week and the optimism and bullishness of the previous week just vanished. We had what could be called a reversal of sorts on Monday…
The ogres in the mind
BY SAEED NAQVI A priceless gift from a friend in Kerala, a Namboodiri to boot, is a film to augment my collection which has sustained my personal film festival to beat the unintelligible lockdown. The…
It is no longer about fear of Lalu and Nitish’s good governance
BY RAHUL VATSA In general, any state election held in Bihar in the last 15 years has been centered on two issues — ‘Lalu ka dar’ (fear of Lalu Prasad) and ‘Nitish ka sushasan’ (Nitish…
Why are the Indian and Chinese economies decoupling?
India has strong geopolitical, historical and economic reasons to disentangle itself from China’s arms By Atul Singh, Manu Sharma & Vikram Sood Many experts argue India is the weaker power unable to take on China….
Cricket astronauts under pressure
By Yajurvindra Singh The Indian Premier League (IPL) is a tournament that cricket lovers are eagerly looking forward to. Although the Caribbean Premier League is already on in the West Indies, the cricket world has…
Pakistan: A saga of paranoia, denial and cheating
By Binay Kumar Singh The Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) air crash in June that killed 97 people and the circumstances causing it beg a closer look. It is widely believed that the pilots of the…
China is not a normal state
By Claude Arpi China is not a normal State, but this is a fact that most China ‘experts’ in India have, for years, failed to grasp this. Gautam Bambawale, who understands China well after serving…