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The Quad, consisting of four countries, the United States, Japan, Australia and India is gradually taking the shape of a security alliance which was the intent of the original name of the grouping – the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has always been shifting the goalposts before, during, and after elections. He has been aggressively inventing, creating and using his narratives to his own political benefit while keeping Hindutva as a constant factor to benefit from the entire RSS family’s activities in the country. His strategy has been overwhelmingly successful until we found it failed, in Karnataka Vidhan Sabha election, the result of which showed his narratives lost their shine, majority of people rejected them as unreliable, while the pitfalls of the constant Hindutva factor widened to allow BJP fall into losing their political dominance in the state to the Congress which is forming the government.

On January 25, India issued notice to Pakistan, demanding changes to the Indus Waters Treaty which was signed by India, Pakistan, and the World Bank in 1960. The treaty determines the allocation of rights to the waters of several rivers in the Indus Basin between the two countries.

Some of the most successful practitioners and developers of “artificial Intelligence” are now calling for its regulation by the government. These creators of the strikingly advanced AI systems are underlining immediate need for global regulation.

Hedge fund manager and macroeconomic expert Hugh Hendry has raised concerns about the US banking system and the American economy as a whole. In a recent interview with Bloomberg Markets, Hendry warned that mass panic and capital flight from the US banking sector are justified given the decline in the M2 money supply.

The “nagging Congress infighting in Karnataka” is glaringly out in the open. And the headlines are making the Congress look like a bunch of children at a candy store. The party is ridden with the suicidal impulses. One view is that the Congress high command should put its foot down, name its Karnataka Chief Minister nominee and start governing the state.

New Delhi: Hosts India will take on Pakistan in their opening match of the South Asian Football Federation (SAFF) Championship (SAFF) on 21 June in Bengaluru.

One of the defining features of our era has been the loss of a domestic political appetite for more US wars. But a similar pushback to Washington’s use of sanctions has been slow to follow, despite the fact that US sanctions are demonstrably cruel, indiscriminate, ineffective, and often illegal.

With Saudi-hosted talks to end Sudan fighting producing minimal results and Arab states supporting rival forces, de-escalation in the Middle East faces a major test. So does Gulf states' ability to employ dollar diplomacy to persuade poorer Arab brethren to align with the policies of countries like Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. In Sudan, the stakes are high.

Sheetla Singh who founded the Hindi language daily Jan Morcha based in Faizabad in 1958 and nurtured it for the last 65 years turning it into a real people’s paper passed away on Tuesday. He was 91 and active in his editorial responsibilities till the end. His demise is being mourned by the journalists throughout the country belonging to all languages as he was also known as a journalists union leader who did a lot for improving the wages and the rights of the media persons.