27-Year Road Map: The Narendra Modi government is doing whatever possible to ensure they can get India to complete levels of self-reliance. It’s a proud moment for the country as the forward thinking leadership is damn serious about the ‘Atma Nirbhar’ aka Self-reliance roadmap laid out in the recently conducted Assocham programme, “India’s resilience: Atmanirbhar ...

Trudeau Gets An Open Letter: A group of former Indian ambassadors sent off a hard worded open letter that has called Canadian PM Justin Trudeau’s voice for Indian farmers are a cheap vote-gathering trick.  Mr. Trudeau’s stance has not gone well with the Centre in New Delhi and has left many eyebrows raised. The open ...

Indo-Pacific Expansion: Russia has accused India of entering the Indo-Pacific group, as a way to cut out China and this has been encouraged solely by the Western countries. In its response, the Indian foreign ministry spokesperson Anurag Srivastava carefully explained India’s position.  India entered the Indo-Pacific was its way on expanding its reach to newer ...

Covid Vaccine By Christmas Time: India might have a vaccine available by Christmas time, provided the UK medicine drug regulator MHRA approves it. Locally developed in India by the Serum Institute of India (SII), the drug is called Covishied.  With this, SII would be able to secure an emergency approval from the related agencies in ...

Terms Of Agitated Farmers: In order to ensure the safety of the striking farmers, Haryana Deputy CM Dushyant Chautala had said that the Centre has agreed to the terms of the farmers and would be stating the same in the written form.  The Minimum Support Price (MSP) will be put down in writing and then it ...

Kremlin Blames The West: Russia thinks West has a strategy in place that India can play anti-China games. An affirmative statement was made at the general meeting of the state-run think tank Russian International Affairs Council recently, where Sergey Lavrov also accused Western powers of trying to undermine Russia’s ties with India. Russia is in ...

India Wins UN: India ‘s Invest India project has received the prestigious United Nations Investment Promotion Award 2020 recently at the UNCTAD headquarters in Geneva marking the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). Invest India is an investment promotion and facilitation agency of the Union government. Speaking to the agency, PM Narendra Modi ...

India Sides With UN Over Cannabis: The use of cannabis has been strictly controlled worldwide, due to its potent use as more of a narcotic than for medicinal purposes.  Trying to regulate its more positive usage, the UN in its 63th session has now decided to remove cannabis from the drug control list following a ...

Indian Fintechs: India is taking some serious steps to ensure fintech players don’t overstep their boundaries. In a time when technological giants like Google and Facebook are trying to devour every other smaller player in the market, India is going to cap the percentage of transactions that a single player can keep in their kitty.  ...

The Chinese BRI: In its attempt to show retaliation against China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), India did not attend a meeting with the other members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO). The Centre has been opposing it because a large part of the BRI runs through the Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK).  BRI or the ...