Wow!
Foreign procurement of Defence has gone down from 49% in FY19 to just 12% in FY25,
Did not realise this as the attention si hogged by big ticket items like Rafael.
So many things have changed in 12 years and accelerating
I always knew that there is something hidden and that's why Govt is playing on backfoot for CJP protest. It was more than what was available for public eyes!
These cockroaches probably had no idea that they were planted to give cover fire to terrorists!
In 1992, Enron, a prominent U.S. company, planned to establish a power plant in Dabhol, Maharashtra, with a proposed investment of $2 billion. However, fierce local opposition stalled the project, leading Enron to file a $600 million compensation lawsuit against the Indian government.
Under the Vajpayee government, Harish Salve, a distinguished Indian lawyer, was appointed to defend India’s interests in this high-stakes international arbitration.
Shockingly, P. Chidambaram, a prominent Congress leader, served as Enron’s legal counsel, advocating against India’s interests.
When the UPA government came to power in 2004, with Chidambaram as Finance Minister, he could no longer directly represent Enron but continued to provide legal advice, reportedly favouring the company.
In a stunning move, the UPA government removed Harish Salve from the case and appointed Khawar Qureshi, a UK-based lawyer of Pakistani origin, to represent India.
The decision to entrust a sensitive case involving billions in taxpayer money to a foreign lawyer with ties to Pakistan raised serious questions about the Congress-led government’s judgment and priorities.
Despite India’s strong position in the arbitration, the questionable decisions - Chidambaram’s prior ties to Enron and the appointment of Qureshi led to a predictable outcome: India lost the case.
The government was forced to pay substantial settlements of $800 million to Bechtel & General Electric, who had acquired Enron’s stakes after its bankruptcy. Additionally, Qureshi was paid exorbitant legal fees, further burdening Indian taxpayers.
Notably, Khawar Qureshi later represented Pakistan in the Kulbhushan Jadhav case at the International Court of Justice, underscoring the irony of Congress’s choice.
And Guess who represented India - Harish Salve, who won the case and stayed the death sentence of Yadav, along with getting him consular access, only for a Fee of Rs 1.
This episode, often downplayed by the media, highlights a disturbing pattern of mismanagement and questionable loyalties under the Congress-led UPA.
Their handling of the Dabhol case reflects a legacy of decisions that prioritised foreign interests and compromised India’s sovereignty, leaving taxpayers to bear the cost of their failures.
When i everyone was congratulating the Left wing Maobadi / Naxalism has ended, i was laughing my ass off.
The Left wing extremists may have been eliminated or forced to surrender …. But that is not a clean up.
Unless you eliminated the Urban Naxals / Maobadis’s its not Over
#WATCH | Raipur, Chhattisgarh: Former women Naxals, who once carried weapons in the dense forests of Bastar, walked the ramp to huge applause at a National Handloom Day event in Raipur after joining the mainstream. (07.08)
IPS trainee Rahul Bansal, who gave emotional gyaan about corruption in his civil services mock interview, now charged with accepting ₹1 crore bribe in cyberfraud case. https://t.co/CLcOcgUIiT
FCRA has to be passed, with whatever suitable or reasonable amendments, but with its teeth fully in place.
It is not a quid pro quo for the latest American tariff bill or any other issue.
If Indo-US relations further suffer due to this, so be it. Not here to mollycoddle them.
Everyone is talking about the 39 medals.
But the real story of these Games is much better than just the medals. Let me explain.
First, these Commonwealth Games was much smaller than the last one. Only 10 sports. Last time there were 19.
And look at which sports were removed.
Wrestling. Badminton. Shooting. Table tennis. Hockey. Cricket.
These are the sports India wins in every single time. Out of our 61 medals last time, 30 came from these sports.
So think about it like this.
In the sports that were played both times, we won 31 medals last time. This time we won 39 in those same sports.
We got better in every sport we played. The total looks smaller only because so many of our sports were not there at all.
Now, first let's talk about the good stuff.
Our boxers were unbelievable. 10 medals. 7 golds.
No country in the history of the Commonwealth Games had ever won 7 boxing golds at one Games.
India just did.
And 5 of those 7 champions are women.
Preeti Pawar. Jaismine Lamboria. Sakshi Chaudhary. Priya Ghanghas. Arundhati Choudhary. Plus Sachin Siwach and Ankush Panghal.
Actually, out of India's 13 golds, 8 were won by women. Our daughters won so much at these Games for us.
Mirabai Chanu won gold again. Third Commonwealth Games in a row. Only one Indian had ever done that before her.
She had a serious back injury. She won anyway. :)
Gulveer Singh is a soldier who grew up running on village roads in Aligarh. He became the first Indian ever to win a medal in the men's 10,000m race. Then he won one more in the 5000m.
In long distance running. Where India never wins.
Our para athletes won 7 medals. That equals everything they had won in all the previous Games put together. Their best performance ever.
Dilip Gavit, who lost his arm as a child, set a Games record in his 100m race.
Even judo gave us 2 golds. Asmita Dey and Harsh Singh.
Be honest, did you even know we had judo players this good?
Now the sad parts. There were a few, unfortunately.
Neeraj Chopra got a silver only. A thrower from Sri Lanka threw 89.75m and won it.
Neeraj is coming back from an injury and said himself that he is not at full strength yet. The good news was Yash Vir Singh winning bronze right behind him.
Our weightlifters won 8 medals. But 6 of them were silver. Six times we were just one good lift away from gold. Six times it did not come. That one hurts.
And in athletics, our runners and jumpers won 10 medals but no gold. Everyone finished second or third. Nobody finished first.
Now, for years people have said the same thing about India. That we only win medals because of shooting and wrestling. Remove those, and we are nothing.
Well. This time someone actually removed them. All of them. Every sport we depend on was taken out.
And we still finished 4th in the world.
The sports that were supposed to be our weak ones carried us. Boxing. Judo. Para athletics. Long distance running.
People said we win only because of easy sports. The easy sports were removed. We won anyway. :)
Big Revelation by WB STF IG
• ISI handlers had asked Hamim Mondal to purchase a police uniform.
• The ISI handlers wanted Hamim Mondal to go to Jantar Mantar in a police uniform and carry out something destructive.
• Hamim Mondal and his girlfriend, Arpita Sarkar, were arrested by the West Bengal STF.
• Hamim Mondal was in contact with ISI, while Arpita Sarkar allegedly honeytrapped individuals to gather information about Suvendu Adhikari.
Pakistan massacres people. Their ex PM is in prison for last three years. Are they global outcast? No.
Dear @narendramodi ji, world respects the sovereign the has the courage to act like a sovereign.