FEBRUARY 24, 2025
Friedrich Merz says he is eager to re-engage with international partners. - Getty Images
Germany's chancellor-in-waiting, didn't wait for the final results of his country's election on Sunday to herald a new era in Europe.
Declaring the US indifferent to this continent's fate, Friedrich Merz questioned the future of Nato and demanded Europe boost its own defences. Quickly.
This tone...
FEBRUARY 23, 2025
Vishnu: The Preserver
“परित्राणाय साधूनां विनाशाय च दुष्कृताम्।
धर्मसंस्थापनार्थाय सम्भवामि युगे युगे॥”
(Bhagavad Gita 4.8)
"To protect the righteous, to annihilate the wicked, and to re-establish dharma, I appear in every age."
Life is a constant battle between creation and destruction, righteousness and chaos. But what happens when dharma (cosmic order) is threatened? Hindu mythology answers this through two powerful forces—Vishnu, the...
FEBRUARY 22, 2025
There comes a point in life when you realize that truth and perception are two very different things.
You could be honest, well-intentioned, even entirely blameless—but if the world decides otherwise, what then?
Do you spend your days explaining yourself to those who have already made up their minds?
Do you fight every accusation, every whisper, every lie? Or do...
FEBRUARY 22, 2025
Delhi High Court Chief Justice DK Upadhyaya on Friday pointed out that constitutionalism and having a constitution are different concepts, using Hitler's rise to dictatorship as an example.
Delhi High Court Chief Justice DK Upadhyaya made a stern statement at the 29th Justice Sunanda Bhandare Memorial Lecture on Friday about the importance of rule of law. He emphasised...
FEBRUARY 22, 2025
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin (Image/ X@mkstalin)
Tamil Nadu will not implement National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, the state’s Chief Minister MK Stalin said. Even if the Centre offered to provide Rs 10,000 crore in funds to the state, Tamil Nadu will continue its opposition to the NEP as it is only due to the “imposition of...
FEBRUARY 21, 2025
President George H.W. Bush meets with Defense Secretary Dick Cheney among others while seated at the C&O desk (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration)
Donald Trump has temporarily removed the iconic Resolute Desk used by his Democratic predecessors Joe Biden and Barack Obama from the Oval Office and replaced it with the C&O desk.
Crafted from the once-abandoned British...
FEBRUARY 21, 2025
Former chief of the defence staff General Sir Nick Carter, Donald Trump.
The UK’s former chief of defence staff slammed Donald Trump last night, saying it’s clear he “needs to be educated” on history.
Speaking on BBC Question Time, General Sir Nick Carter – who was Britain’s highest ranking military officer from 2018 to 2021 – recalled how the...
FEBRUARY 21, 2025
Donald Trump, left, shakes hands with Vladimir Putin, Russia's President, during a news conference in Helsinki, Finland, on Monday, July 16, 2018. - Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty Images
A former Soviet intelligence officer has claimed Donald Trump was recruited by the KGB in 1987 and given the codename “Krasnov.”
The bombshell allegation was made by Alnur Mussayev, a former...
FEBRUARY 21, 2025
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, joined by his son X Musk, stands next to U.S. President Donald Trump as he speaks during an executive order signing in the Oval Office at the White House on February 11, 2025 in Washington, DC. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images
In the first month of President Donald Trump's second term, the newly established...
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
The Senate on Thursday narrowly voted to confirm Kash Patel as the FBI’s ninth director, installing a close ally of President Donald Trump and a staunch critic of the bureau to lead the country’s premier law enforcement agency.
Patel was approved 51-49, a remarkably tight margin for a position that historically has seen nominees win overwhelming bipartisan support....
