India will purchase 15 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) from Israel, news outlets reported Monday. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh approved the purchase at a Cabinet meeting, according to Defense Update. The goal: to boost India’s line of surveillance against northern border countries and regional rivals Pakistan and China. The purchase will cost about 1,200 crores / 120 million […]
Russia remains stalwart in its laws that aim to curb the influence of the West’s gay-friendly culture on Russian youth and choose to honor the traditional family instead. Meanwhile, last week, in a stunning turn of events, India’s high court reinstituted a nineteenth-century law against sodomy, and made homosexuality illegal as well. I cannot blame […]
A video apparently showing the brutal beating of a migrant worker in Saudi Arabia has gone viral, and once again shone a spotlight on the issue of human rights violations in the gulf kingdom. The victim – who the publisher of the video claims is an Indian national – can be seen pleading for his life as his […]
by the late Sita Ram Goel The regimes that followed the Emergency (1975-77) did nothing to free the establishment from the stranglehold of the communist mafia. Members of the mafia have continued to occupy seats in the nation’s parliament and state legislatures, and man many other prestigious institutions. It retains control of two strategic states* […]
stringer/Xinhua/Photoshot/Newscom India launched its new aircraft carrier last week, the 37,500-ton INS Vikrant. In response, a state-run Chinese newspaper called for more carriers in the People’s Liberation Army Navy fleet. Meanwhile, U.S. carriers—and the entire U.S. Navy—are struggling to meet fleet size requirements due to a chronically underfunded shipbuilding account and broader budget instability. While […]
August 15, 2013 15:59 by Pesach Benson Iran seized an Indian oil tanker in the Persian Gulf. According to the Times of India, the ship, MT Desh Shanti, was detained in international waters and is now being taken to Iran’s Bandar Abbas port. Too early to tell what this will mean for oil prices. Iran […]
Barry Gardiner, Labour MP for Brent North and founder of the Labour Friends of India, has defended the invitation to the politician to address MPs on “the future of modern India”. But why would he have to ‘defend’ a respected politician and someone who one day may lead the world’s largest democracy? Adam Pasternicki […]
Indian investigators are looking for six suspects in the bomb attack against Mahabodhi Temple on Sunday morning. Two monks were wounded in the attack. Mahabodhi Temple, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is located in Bodh Gaya, which Buddhists see as the most important of the main four pilgrimage sites related to the life of Buddha. […]
In 2007 the Daily Mail’s Richard Littlejohn investigated the anti-Semitism which had become an essential feature of the British political Left. His research was broadcast in July of that year on Channel 4, with the programme The War on Britain’s Jews. Normally the anti-Semitism of the Left is couched in anti-Zionism. Yet it is […]
Economist Nouriel Roubini warned late last month at the World Economic Forum that economic growth in the so-called BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) is at risk: Their past successes were “hyped up,” and the futures of the BRICs are at risk due to rising statism. This rising risk can be seen in the […]
