In the last two months two seemingly innocent and unnoticed events happened within the borders of the subcontinent with far reaching political and geopolitical implications. The first of the two events was the acceptance for first time by the Prime Minister of India regarding the Russian captivity of Subhash Chandra
Punjab, for many years, has been a transit point for drugs from Afghanistan. The drug money has become a major source of funding of elections in Punjab and over the time a well-organized drug cartel has come into existence with active connivance of politicians, police officers and drug lords. This
Poppy is used to make narcotics – opium, brown sugar and heroin. It is big business in West Bengal’s #Malda district, involving big money and big names, where a lakh-strong mob set fire to the local police station in #Kaliachak block earlier this month. As NDTV reported: Poppy is allegedly
Thursday, 7th January 2016 marked the one year anniversary of the attacks on French satire magazine Charlie Hebdo. For the one year anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo attacks, the magazine launched a special edition with a rather symbolic cover. It depicts a terrorist, wearing a bloody robe with a Kalashnikov
A story that stretches across three countries, and confirms the kind of power and influence that corporates can bring to politics where war talk is replaced by peace, and wherein supposed ‘enemy’ nations twist the rules in close cooperation for mutual benefit. NEW DELHI: Congress proposes, Bharatiya Janata Party disposes.
UPDATE: After we reported on how the #PathankotAttack was not just another usual terror incident but related to the International #DrugMafia stretching from Afghanistan via Pakistan to India from where it is shipped off to Dubai and Europe, today almost every mainstream media has picked up on it. Not only the
Yesterday Gurdaspur SP Salwinder Singh was kidnapped and his car hijacked at gunpoint at Jammu-Pathankot national highway on his way back to home around 4 pm by heavily armed persons wearing army uniforms. A Red Alert was issued and a massive search operation was launched into the incident to apprehend
During the same time of the Edward Snowden revelations of the NSA spying dragnet; behind the scenes a secret intelligence war was being waged between the spies of US and Israel. US was pursuing Iran deal at the time and the White House officials believed the intercepted information could be
Western media reports he was likely murdered for being an FBI informant. There are even separate allegations that Lesin may still be alive, with his demise faked by the US authorities. Mikhail Lesin, 57, was announced last weekend to have been found dead in the US capital. Lesin was found