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More than forty hours have passed since the missile strikes by Indian military on the nine terror camp sites in Pakistan. The situation in both New Delhi and Islamabad is witnessing the same type of preparations indicating that Pakistan is getting ready for another military confrontation with India after the Kargil war in 1999. Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in a nationwide address on Wednesday night warned India that it will avenge ‘’ each drop of the blood of our martyrs”. Army Chief General Asim Munir along with two other chiefs was authorized to take corresponding retaliatory action against India.

In the early hours of May 7, Indian armed forces launched a military operation called Operation Sindoor, to target about nine sites in PoK and Pakistani territories. There is a consensus across the political spectrum on the need to respond to the barbaric killings of Indian tourists in Pahalgam. The evidence put on record by the Government of India and the representatives of the armed forces, proves the involvement of LeT which is an outfit directly handled by the Pakistani establishment. The LeT is already on the UN’s designated list of terrorist organisations.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi Government has been in the habit of changing definitions to show sudden growth in various sectors of economy without actual growth on the ground. We have seen it in the past how change of status of certain state highways to national highways suddenly pushed up the length of the national highway under Modi government without constructing them. The latest such example has come in the MSME sector.

Stricken deep in grief after the terrorist attack on the innocent tourists in Pahalgam, it was thought that whole India will stand by the aggrieved families of the deceased, particularly with the young women who have been widowed. But the way Himanshi Narwal, a young girl recently married to a promising Lieutenant from Indian Navy who was martyred by the terrorists is being trolled has belied this hope. She is being ridiculed for having appealed for communal harmony and not to make Pahalgam incident an anti-Muslim or anti-Kashmiri issue. She also asked the people not to be violent to the Kashmiri students studying in other parts of the country.

Indian Armed Forces through its ‘Operation Sindoor’ has avenged the gruesome killing of 28 innocent Indians in Pahalgam by Pakistan-based terrorists by demolishing nine terror-training camps across Pakistan past midnight in the early hours of 7 May. The terminology “Operation Sindoor” has wider and deeper connotation. It meant to finish off the terrorists who had wiped out the sindoor (vermilion) of Indian women. Significantly, this is the first major military offensive against Pakistan after 1971, which witnessed the creation of a new nation, “Bangladesh”.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi came up with the name 'Operation Sindoor' that targeted terrorist hubs in Pakistan. Modi sat through the night monitoring 'Operation Sindoor', named for the 'Hindu widows' of the Pahalgam terror attack. Pakistani terrorists snuffed the ‘Sindoor’ of these women and 26 Hindu men were killed. A Nepalese citizen was also killed for being a Hindu!

Former Prime Minister of Bangladesh and chairperson of the main political party Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) returned to Dhaka on Tuesday May 6 on the eve of the completion of nine months of the interim government headed by Dr. Muhammad Yunus. Khaleda who was ailing for long and was not allowed to go abroad for medical treatment during the regime of Sheikh Hasina, was allowed to go to London for treatment by the interim regime.

The gesture of Supreme Court judges declaring their assets is at best, symbolic and, at worst, a distraction from the deeper and more systemic issues that plague the system. The declaration itself does not and cannot constitute a meaningful solution to judicial corruption, especially when the mechanisms for oversight remain weak, opaque, and riddled with structural loopholes. The immediate provocation for this move—the discovery of burnt currency at the residence of Delhi High Court judge Yashwant Varma—has added urgency to the narrative, but urgency is not the same as effectiveness. If anything, this incident highlights the gaping holes in the system and the inadequacy of the current means of accountability. It took a fire to bring out this specific problem, but fire can in no way be a solution to expose corruption!

India has emerged as the second most attractive destination for Japanese investors in Asia, after Singapore. It surpassed China, the most attractive place for Japanese investment in Asia for over four decades. Hitherto, India was eighth in 2020 in terms of getting investment from Japan.

India has a great friend in UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, who has on a number of occasions held India back from the brink of war with arch enemy Pakistan, thus saving India from total annihilation. This time, too, Guterres has asked both India and Pakistan to exercise “maximum restraint”. The UN Chief seems to be telling India "we read you loud and clear", the Pahalgam massacre happened but rein in the oats!