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 […]
PM Modi’s Vadodara Event Tickets Vanish in One Hour on BookMyShow, 42,000 Left Waiting
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s public programme in Vadodara. Free registrations on BookMyShow opened, and within roughly an hour every available seat was taken. More than 42,000 people ended up on the waiting list. Registration had to be shut down after that. This is the first time a Prime Minister’s public event in Vadodara has used […]
Those Who Put India in the Fragile 5 Are Now Doubting Our GDP Numbers
The year when the world looked at India and went, “Fragile Five.” Morgan Stanley slapped that label on us along with Brazil, Indonesia, South Africa and Turkey. High inflation, rupee sliding, current account deficit looking ugly, policy paralysis talk everywhere. Growth felt stuck. People genuinely worried capital would just walk out the door. It was […]
‘PM Modi warned us’: Belgium PM finally admits Europe slept on India’s China warning
Belgium’s Prime Minister Bart De Wever was in Delhi this week and he said something pretty blunt.He looked at the Indian business crowd and basically confessed that Europe had been living in a bubble. For years they watched cheap Chinese goods flood their markets — sold below cost, killing local factories, slowly making Europe dependent. […]
