Wrote about the importance of @narendramodi visiting PNG and India taking over the G20 Presidency.
For many countries, Indian leadership in 2023 might mean having the option of shifting from non-alignment to much needed realignment.
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1/ THREAD: The @WSJ ran checks on China's most popular social media platforms in the weeks before the Party Congress, searching for the names of Chinese leader Xi, the standing committee members and its 31 provincial and region Party chiefs. Here's what we found:
385 days since the Taliban banned teenage girls from school. Afghanistan remains the only country on the planet banning girls from getting an eduction, as a matter of policy #LetAfghanGirlsLearn
HAL takes immense pride that indigenously designed and developed LCH (Prachand) is inducted into the IAF by the Defence Minister, Mr Rajnath Singh at a ceremony in Jodhpur. The Company thanks all its stakeholders, designers and valued customers in this successful journey.
Saluting Swamiji Sarvapriyananda of Sri Ramakrishna Math, head of Vedanta Society of NY. He highlights the anti India activities going on in Harvard and other universities, especially by some India origin professors try to impress others by bashing India...
In all the years covering Najib, his 2014 trip to a Chanel store in the Ala Moana Center best captures his nature. He was visiting Obama in Hawaii, but had to go home to Malaysia because of floods. His wife was angry for cutting her holiday short…
The murderous attack on Salman Rushdie by a U.S.-born Shia extremist is a reminder that fanatics are willing to kill in the name of God. The Japanese translator of The Satanic Verses was murdered. The book's Italian and Norwegian translators were separately attacked but survived.
A bankrupt Sri Lanka may be staying afloat with Indian aid, yet it scorns India's strategic concerns. After hosting up to Aug. 15 Pakistan's new PRC-built frigate (named after the destroyer of Delhi, Taimur), it will host a Chinese military ship whose visit India had objected to.
Following India's protest, Sri Lanka may have urged China to defer the arrival of a Chinese surveillance ship, but what stands out that it agreed to host at its commercial port a military ship whose mission includes mapping ocean floor for anti-submarine operations against India.
Meanwhile, cargo warship USNS Charles Drew of the US arrived at L&T’s Shipyard at Kattupalli, Chennai, on Sunday for undertaking repairs and allied services. This is the first ever repair of a US Navy ship in India. File photo
1/ BREAKING: Chinese rootkits found in motherboards of ASUS and GIGABYTE (the two Chinese 🇨🇳 giants).
Kaspersky Researchers named it CosmicStrand.
This malware being planted in the UEFI firmware image is nearly impractical to be detected or removed by even advanced tech users.
Biden's pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia was justified on grounds that he wants to bring down the US price at the pump. But the soaring prices of gasoline, diesel and natural gas in the US are due to rising US energy exports, with Biden reluctant to limit US exporters' profits bonanza.