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‘Hate With a Pop Sheen’ Songs Gaining Popularity Among India Youth

DESPARDES — India weaponizes music to push Saffron agenda of Hinduatva, cow protection, anti Muslim…

Saudi Arabia to Export Electricity, Produce Civil Nuclear Energy

DESPARDES — Announcing that ‘We are moving ahead with our civil nuclear program’, Saudi energy…

Great People to Fly With: PIA Inches Toward Turnaround

Only 20 percent of the available cargo capacity was being airlifted which has now been…

100 Days of Lockdown: Journalists Protest Internet Ban in Kashmir

SRINAGAR — Indian-occupied Jammu and Kashmir yesterday marked 100 days since PM Modi’s government stripped…

Blind Singer Goes From Streets to Stardom in Nigeria

KADUNA, Nigeria — Yahaya Makaho feels his way to the microphone before launching into a…

Statue of Indian Pilot Shot Down over Kashmir on Display

DESPARDES — A statue of an Indian pilot whose plane was shot down over Kashmir…

India: ‘Mistrust Economy’ or ‘Modinomics’?

DESPARDES — When Narendra Modi was first elected in 2014, many hoped he would focus…

Why Imran Khan Deserves Praise for Kartarpur Corridor: C J Werleman

Any student of India-Pakistan relations knows that breakthroughs derived from track one diplomacy are few…

Ex-PM Nawaz Sharif Going Abroad for Medical Treatment

Three return tickets have been booked – for Nawaz, his brother Shehbaz Sharif and family…

India’s Top Court Hands Over Babri Mosque Land to Hindus

“The entire demolition was carried out in an orchestrated manner”: Justice MS Liberhan, the man…

Changing Faces of Pakistan: Bulleh Shah in Kartarpur, Violin in ISB, Mughal Painting in LHR

DESPARDES — IT’S A WATERSHED day in the history of the subcontinent. “The future trajectory…

Moody’s Downgrades India’s Outlook to ‘Negative’ From ‘Stable’; Slowdown Long-Lasting

India’s economic growth will remain “materially lower than in the past” according to Moody’s forecast….