Hungarian American billionaire investor George Soros may bolster the electoral prospects of India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
By wading into India’s choppy political waters and saying that Modi’s “stranglehold” on the country’s government could be weakening in the wake of the devastating allegations of a variety of fraudulent corporate practices by the embattled business tycoon Gautam Adani’s empire, Soros may cause precisely the opposite effect to what he had intended.
Hindenburg Research, the findings of whose two-year-long investigation into the alleged fraudulent practices by the Adani Group have dropped a bombshell, is baiting the Indian corporate giant to file a lawsuit in the U.S. where the demand for a legal discovery process could be potentially devastating for the group.
Perhaps no Pakistani leader has ever said “Pakistan has learned its lesson” in the context of the three wars with India like Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has done. That is an extraordinary comment whose motivation could stem from a combination of factors.
Terrorist attacks are highly responsive to funding availability, and financial counter-terrorism can therefore be effective in reducing terrorism casualties, according to research conducted by Nicola Limodio, Assistant Professor of Finance at Bocconi University Visiting Fellow at the Economics Department and the Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy and Finance at Princeton University.
Arul Louis- The U.S. State Department now appears to stand behind President Donald Trump’s claim that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi had asked him to mediate or arbitrate the Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan, moving away from a department official’s clarification that it considered it a bilateral issue. Asked by a reporter if there […]
IANS- Moving swiftly to counter the diplomatic embarrassment caused by President Donald Trump’s flub on Kashmir and assuage an upset New Delhi, the US administration clarified that Kashmir is very much a bilateral issue between India and Pakistan, even as US Democrats apologized to India’s envoy for the US President’s “amateurish claim” about Kashmir. India […]
Arul Louis- Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump on Friday declared that their countries were “central to global peace and stability” and pledged to “provide strong leadership to address global challenges and build prosperity for their citizens in the decades to come”, according to the White House. The two leaders […]
Justice Markenday Katju- The Prime Minister Narendra Modi is presently visiting Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan to attend a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jin Ping and other leaders on the sidelines of the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation. The Indian leader has met the Chinese leader often in the past in an effort to improve relations between the […]
IANS- Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday met Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena for the second time in 10 days and agreed that terrorism was a “joint threat” that needed collective and focussed action. The two leaders had last week met at Modi’s swearing-in ceremony. Modi is the first foreign leader to visit Sri Lanka […]
Frank Islam- Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s re-election by such large margins in a sweeping victory is a testimony to his popularity across India. Many media articles during the seven-week long election process, however, expressed fear that a Modi victory would disenfranchise tens of millions and threaten Indian democracy itself. This perspective is attributable to […]
