Author: Somashekar N

India balancing all multilateral commitments of QUAD, SCO, and G-20 scheduled successively The year-end of 2022 is an epochal challenge in India’s foreign diplomacy, with all major syndicates having their confronted gathering after a short gap due to the pandemic. These meetings are very arduous as they involve parties having a face-off. From September 5 – 6 an “Official meeting” of QUAD members was held in New Delhi. Followed by the 2+2 meeting between India & Japan on 8th September in Tokyo. And the meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Co-operation Organization (SCO) in Samarkand in…

A 13-year-old school girl succumbed to death in Khajuri Khas, northeastern Delhi after a ton heavy iron gate descended on her, while she was returning home from school The police have filed an FIR under IPC Sec 304A (death caused due to negligence), and have started to investigate the core cause and inquire about the role of every personnel including security guards working in the BSES (discom) office. Her relatives expressed angst over the negligence caused, alleging that “she used to take the same route daily when the gate was left open someone could have warned about the hazard…..and even…

In a view of aiding counter-terrorism, the U.S. has extended a $450 million deal to revive and resuscitate the F-16 fighter jets of Pakistan, despite the indelible blisters of 9/11 attack, the USA is stepping ahead to confirm its deal by Wednesday. Historical Closeness between USA and Pakistan U.S. support to Pakistan during the 1971 Indo-Pak war During the pre-1971 Indo-Pak war, the America directly supported Pakistan by leasing its nuclear submarine “USS Diablo (SS-479)” in 1964 under the Security Assistance Program (SAP), which was renamed “PNS Ghazi (S–130)” and deployed in the Bay of Bengal, to challenge Indian Navy.…

The Apex court has bailed out journalist Siddique Kappan referring to the imputation as an egregiously malevolent instance Background On 5/Oct/2020, journalist Siddique Kappan was arrested on his way to Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras to report on a 19-year-old Dalit girl’s gang-rape, and he was charged with plotting a divisive campaign in the area. And to ensure that he was kept in prison for a long time, the police invoked several arraigning provisions of the “Unlawful Activities Prevention Act” (infamously abbreviated as UAPA), uapa uapauapa he was alleged for raising funds for a terrorist act and a conspiracy to commit it,further inculpated under penal p provisions concerning promoting enmity between communities.He was purported as a member of the Popular Front of India.Pamphlets calling for justice for the victim and literature in English (which were related to ‘Black Lives Matter’ protests in the United States), were ostensibly linked to…

Victor Das had been arrested by Assam police on 11/Sep/2022 for allegedly spreading fake information regarding a recruitment scam. Security measures of Assam government On 21/Aug/2022 Assam government suspended “mobile internet” in 25 districts, for nearly four hours to conduct recruitment exams to fill 30,000 vacancies in Grade III and Grade IV sectors across various departments. Besides this, as an additional measure IPC Sec 144 (Curfew) was imposed within a radius of 100 meters from the examination centers. Present tussle Victor Das tutor at coaching institute had tweeted (on 8/Sep/2022) to the Chief Minister and DGP of Assam, purporting that a…

Kim Jong-un, North Korea’s leader, said Thursday that “there would no longer be any bargaining over our nuclear power,” according to state media. Recently the North Korean leader of “The Workers’ Party of Korea” implemented its nuclear weapon policy, which enables it to carry out preemptive nuclear strikes against any ostensible threats (regardless of nuclear or non-nuclear grade). North Korea which has ramped up its weapon testing since 2017 following two major regime changes respectively in the U.S. (ascended by Donald Trump) and South Korea (ascended by Moon Jae-in), is blabbering its hymns of facile deterrence in the domain of…