‘Indian side has made clear…’: MEA as Russia sanctions bill threatening 100% tariff clears US House
On Wednesday, the US House of Representatives cleared this big Russia sanctions package — the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026 — by a 262-159 vote. It had already sailed through the Senate earlier, so now it sits on President Donald Trump’s desk waiting for his signature. And right in the […]
PM Modi turns 76 today – 25 years of running governments
Today, 17 September 2026, Narendra Modi turns 76.Born in 1950 in Vadnagar, small town in Gujarat. Ordinary family, helped at the tea stall as a kid. Nothing fancy. Then in October 2001 the party made him Gujarat CM after the big earthquake. He was 51, never been a minister before. He stayed more than 12 […]
Omar praises India’s foreign policy over BRICS mention of Pahalgam, slams Centre on UCC
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah did on Tuesday. He stood in Srinagar and openly said the Centre’s foreign policy scored a real win at the BRICS summit, while in the very next breath he tore into the government over the Uniform Civil Code. Talking to reporters, Omar zeroed in on the New […]
US Lawmaker Just Put India’s Name on That Russia Sanctions Bill
Congressman Steny Hoyer put forward an amendment that lists out the countries that could get hit with 100 percent tariffs. The list includes China, India, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Hungary, Slovakia, the UAE, Singapore, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. The House Rules Committee made these amendments public on Monday. They only have about four working days left before the […]
Why Xi Jinping Skipped Modi’s BRICS Dinner
Chinese President Xi Jinping came to Delhi for the BRICS Summit. He landed Saturday afternoon, went straight into the meetings, sat with Modi for their bilateral talk, and then… when the big gala dinner started in the evening at Bharat Mandapam, he wasn’t there. Putin was at the table. Other BRICS leaders were there. Our […]
Before 9/11, India Was On Osama Bin Laden’s Hit List, CIA Documents Reveal
The anniversary of 9/11, more stuff comes out about what the intelligence people knew or didn’t know back then? Well, this time the CIA dropped a bunch of old presidential briefs, and one of them has India’s name right there on a list of places Osama bin Laden was looking at for attacks. Not years […]
PM Modi, Iran’s Pezeshkian Hand-In-Hand: India’s Picture Perfect Diplomacy
Prime Minister Narendra Modi was walking the red carpet at the BRICS Business Forum, and right there he was holding Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian’s hand. Russian President Vladimir Putin and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa were walking with them too. The picture went everywhere. It looked ordinary, almost friendly. But with everything going on in […]
BRICS Summit 2026: Putin’s Already Here, Xi Comes Tomorrow – Here’s What’s Going On in Delhi
Russian President Vladimir Putin landed early this morning at the Air Force station in Palam. He got here around 1:15 am or so. India’s Minister of State for External Affairs Kirti Vardhan Singh was there to receive him. This is Putin’s second visit to India in under a year – he was here last December […]
Indore Lost the Top Spot by Just One Point – Lucknow Took It
The city that’s been India’s cleanest for years, the one people always hold up as the example. Well, this week it slipped a bit. In the new clean air survey – Swachh Vayu Survekshan 2026 – Indore scored 197 out of 200. Lucknow got 198. One single point. That’s all. And just like that, Indore […]
UPI-ng the ante: PM Modi wants desi connect with global pay
Prime Minister Narendra Modi gets up and basically tells the room: we’ve done the hard part at home, now let’s take this UPI thing and properly plug it into the world. UPI is already live in 11 countries — Singapore, the UAE, France, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Mauritius, Qatar, Cambodia, Greece and the Maldives. Solid […]
