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Opinion: India’s Women Are Advancing, Whether the World Notices Or Not

Opinion: India’s Women Are Advancing, Whether the World Notices Or Not

India is also showing the world how women can take the lead in handling newer tools and technologies

08.03.2026 10

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Straight Talk | Pakistan And Saudi Arabia’s Mutual Defence Pact Fails Its First Test

Straight Talk | Pakistan And Saudi Arabia’s Mutual Defence Pact Fails Its First Test

The collapse of the Pakistan-Saudi mutual defence pact offers a useful reminder about the difference between agreements and commitments

03.03.2026 10

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Opinion | India AI Summit: Global South’s AI Voice Finds Its Microphone In Delhi

By chairing this summit, India staked credibility on a different premise: the countries with the most to gain or lose from AI are the ones most...

18.02.2026 20

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Used And Thrown: Pakistan Learns It Was Just A Pawn In Trump’s India Strategy

Pakistan’s early “win” on tariffs now looks like a bargaining chip that Washington used to pressure India, not a durable strategic upgrade.

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Straight Talk | IMEC Back In Focus As India Looks At Free Trade With Gulf After Closing EU Deal

IMEC is a multi-modal connectivity project, linking India’s west coast ports to Gulf ports and further on to Europe through Saudi Arabia, Jordan and...

11.02.2026 9

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Jaishankar At Critical Minerals Meet: Why India Matters More Than Ever In The New Resource Race

India has become something far more valuable: a gatekeeper in the global supply chains that will define the next decade.

05.02.2026 10

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Straight Talk | Modi’s Strategic Patience Pays Off: How India Got A Surprise Deal With The US

India negotiated a deal that would have been unthinkable in the depth of the trade war. This was not surrender. This was leverage. India now has among...

04.02.2026 10

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Opinion | The Significance Of India-EU Trade Agreement In Today's World

The world is building alternatives now and India has chosen to be among the architects – not a supplicant or a bystander

28.01.2026 9

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Straight Talk | This Republic Day, The World Learns It Cannot Control India

On Republic Day this year, India is not celebrating its arrival. It is celebrating its refusal to disappear

26.01.2026 30

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Parakram As Statecraft: Netaji Would Have Approved Of Modi's India

Both believed that a nation's moral standing comes from being strong. Both saw government as a tool for the people's will, not for crushing...

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Straight Talk | Rafales Again: How Nehruvian Socialism Bankrupted India's Defence Future

Had successive Indian governments invested in building a credible indigenous defence manufacturing ecosystem decades ago, India would not be writing...

22.01.2026 20

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Army Day Reckoning: Operation Sindoor And India’s New Pakistan Doctrine

For the first time since 1971, India struck across the international border in direct retaliation for a terror attack with Operation Sindoor.

16.01.2026 20

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Straight Talk | Trump’s Iran Tariffs Reveal The Limits Of US-India Strategic Convergence

What Washington says in embassies and public statements bears little resemblance to what it does through executive orders.

14.01.2026 30

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Straight Talk | 2026 Will Be Modi's Reform Acceleration Year And India Is Ready For It

The government is not resting on the momentum of what it announced. Instead, it is shifting gears towards what might be called...

08.01.2026 10

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Straight Talk | The Scapegoating Of Indian Americans Has Begun—And It Will Intensify

The time for building parallel centres of power and prosperity in India has begun, for American democracy is being tested by its contradictions

31.12.2025 10

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Opinion | Modi In Oman And Jordan: New Delhi’s Push To Secure Maritime Chokepoints In West Asia

India's strategy in securing maritime chokepoints without military bases is not a temporary expedient but a sustainable model

18.12.2025 20

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Straight Talk | India In Arctic, Russia In Indian Ocean: The New Geometry of Modi-Putin Diplomacy

By establishing direct bilateral cooperation on Arctic shipping, India would help prevent Chinese monopolisation of transit routes

05.12.2025 10

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Opinion | A 350-Year Dharmic Arc: PM Modi Leads India In Honouring Guru Tegh Bahadur’s Martyrdom

In re-centering Sikh Gurus and their message in India’s national story, the government has asserted that the future of Bharat depends on this mix of...

26.11.2025 10

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Straight Talk | Ram Mandir Dhwajarohan: From Ayodhya, Bharat Declares Its Civilisational Awakening

The Dhwajarohan marks the moment when suppression ends and reclamation is complete

26.11.2025 10

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Modi’s G20 Defiance: Why The Global South Is Done Waiting For America

Trump's boycott represents more than diplomatic pettiness. It is part of a systematic dismantling of the multilateral order that the United...

22.11.2025 20

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Straight Talk | Bihar To Bengal: Inside Modi-Shah’s Biggest Push Yet To Dethrone TMC

Modi's declaration that the Ganga flowing from Bihar to Bengal has paved the way for BJP's victory is the clearest articulation yet of the...

20.11.2025 20

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Amit Shah’s Next Frontline: India’s White-Collar Terror Network

The arrests of multiple doctors across Jammu and Kashmir, Haryana, and Uttar Pradesh reveal an ecosystem that has been festering beneath the surface...

13.11.2025 10

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Straight Talk | PM Modi In Bhutan: Why India’s Smallest Neighbour Matters The Most

India's partnership with Bhutan has been on a consistently stable and forward-moving trajectory

12.11.2025 20

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Straight Talk | India Needs A Mass Pivot To Entrepreneurship

More than half of India’s new startups now rise from outside the metros — a silent revolution redefining how and where India works.

07.11.2025 10

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Opinion | The Forgotten Founding Father: How Congress Buried Sardar Patel's Legacy And Modi Revived It

Congress created modern India alongside Patel, but then systematically erased him because he didn't fit the dynasty's narrative

01.11.2025 20

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Sir Creek To Karachi: Exercise Trishul To Lay Out India’s Strike Plan For Southern Pakistan

This is a calibrated demonstration of overwhelming force and a stark message to “Field Marshal” Asim Munir: India will not tolerate militarisation...

30.10.2025 20

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Opinion | Demographic Time Bomb: Inside Modi & Shah’s Mission To Rid India Of Illegal Immigrants

According to government data, India hosts approximately 20 million illegal Bangladeshi immigrants.

25.10.2025 20

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Straight Talk | Surrounded & Sinking: Terror State Pakistan Burns In The Fires It Lit

Pakistan’s final act is no grand battle with India, nor resistance against Afghanistan, nor noble protection of Palestinian rights---It is the act...

23.10.2025 20

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Straight Talk | Operation Sindoor To Asia Cup: Pakistan’s National Sport Is Losing, Then Lying

Pakistan's cricket administrators, like their military and political counterparts, need a fundamental reality check

03.10.2025 20

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Straight Talk | If Saudi Arabia Bets On Pakistan, India Has Plenty Of Options

If Riyadh wants to bet on Pakistan’s nuclear umbrella over India’s economic partnership, that’s their choice. But they shouldn’t be surprised...

25.09.2025 20

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Straight Talk | From Nepal To Bangladesh, Regimes Fall But ‘Stable’ India Stands Tall

Our democratic resilience offers a model that others can aspire to emulate, even as they struggle with their own political chaos

18.09.2025 10

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Modi At 75: The Art Of Converting Crises Into Comebacks

From navigating punitive 50 per cent US tariffs to managing coalition politics for the first time, the tests before him would break lesser leaders.

16.09.2025 10

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Straight Talk | From Tariffs To Tianjin: India’s Modi Shows The World How To Stand Up To Trump

PM Modi's message was about crafting a fairer global order where sovereign nations make decisions based on their people's interests, not...

04.09.2025 20

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Straight Talk | From Fighters To Engines: Why France Is The Only Logical Partner For India

France's exceptional willingness to share crown jewel technology is a recognition of India's evolution from aid recipient to strategic...

29.08.2025 20

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Oil, Defence, And Leverage: Why India Is Strengthening Its Bet On Russia

India is signalling that it will not be boxed in by Washington’s economic penalties and that New Delhi’s idea of “strategic autonomy” remains...

22.08.2025 30

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Straight Talk | Modi’s Diplomatic Reset With China Reflects India’s Realism In A Multipolar World

India is reopening channels with China where interests overlap, while also taking care to not drop its guard.

20.08.2025 40

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Straight Talk | Bharat’s ‘Original Sin’: Partition Was Not Freedom, But Civilisational Betrayal

The cruel irony of partition is that it was agreed to by a generation that had produced some of India's greatest sons.

14.08.2025 20

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Straight Talk | Donald Trump, India Won’t Be Bullied By You

But Trump has fundamentally miscalculated. This is India, not some pliant client regime that buckles under Washington's economic blackmail.

07.08.2025 10

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Opinion | Illegal Immigration Crackdown & Electoral Revision: Why Is the Opposition So Nervous?

Amid all this, what stands out is not just the impact of these actions, but the intensity of the opposition’s reaction

02.08.2025 30

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Straight Talk | Trump's Theatre Of Lies: India's Opposition Falls For Master Manipulator's Claims

The tragedy lies not in Trump's predictable dishonesty—that is simply his established modus operandi—but in India's Opposition choosing...

31.07.2025 20

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Straight Talk | Rebooting Paradise Inc: Why Modi’s Visit Is A Booster Shot For Maldives

As Prime Minister Narendra Modi sets foot on Maldivian soil now, the entire region watches: can this reset patch up old wounds and bring back the...

26.07.2025 10

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Straight Talk | Europe Exposes Its Hypocrisy On Russian Energy By Targeting India

To expect India to pay the price Europe won’t is not just illogical; it is imperial in its arrogance

23.07.2025 20

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Opinion | India: The Next Israel? The Case For A 4+ Front War Doctrine

India is facing a 4 front war. The question is not if we are prepared. It’s why we are still not

19.07.2025 10

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Straight Talk | In A World Of Flux, India Chooses Pragmatism With China

In a world where Washington's unreliability as a security partner has been proven, India is prudently choosing to calm its most significant and...

16.07.2025 10

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Opinion | 3 Pillars Of PM Modi’s Global South Doctrine: Diaspora, Democracy, And Resources

As New Delhi charts its course, it has become clear that its engagement with the Global South is no longer merely an extension of post-colonial...

05.07.2025 10

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Straight Talk | Modi’s Playbook For Quad: Shaming Pakistan, Countering China And Dismissing Trump

In what should be considered a landmark diplomatic outcome for New Delhi, the Quad joint statement "unequivocally condemns all acts of terrorism,...

03.07.2025 10

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India Stands Up To China At SCO: Modi Govt Blocks Pakistan’s Terror Whitewash

Prime Minister Narendra Modi did not send the Raksha Mantri into the “dragon's” den to seek consensus, but to detonate it.

27.06.2025 20

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Straight Talk | India’s Operation Sindoor Triggers China-Pakistan-Bangladesh Alliance

This new axis is a key pillar in China's strategic playbook to isolate and contain India

25.06.2025 10

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Opinion | An Old Tango in Washington: Donald Trump, Asim Munir & A Farce India Has Seen Before

While America is busy with its old tango with Islamabad, India will continue its economic ascent, building a future based on production, not deception

20.06.2025 20

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Straight Talk | Modi's G7 Invite Isn't An Olive Branch, It's The West’s White Flag Of Necessity

To not have India at the G7 table would be pure diplomatic myopia.

18.06.2025 20

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