Putin has scored a success, America does not want to push Democracy in Central Asia ::: China getting undue weightage by US ::: India-China border issue remains in Arunachal Pradesh : New Delhi playing the 'long game' with Washington

At the global stage, the first two years of Donald Trump's second term have been catastrophic; many will argue that the next two could be worse.   

The 'Strained' India–America relations under Trump 2.0 put to test India’s strategic autonomy. 

India had a long-standing commitment to maintaining equidistance in its foreign policy. This was also a risky roadmap threatening New Delhi's 'relevance' in international affairs. The Modi Govt pushed for a more proactive approach to strategic autonomy and slowly this strengthened India’s position even as it manages a cooling relationship with the US.  

Having said these, we must remember New Delhi was among the most eager to welcome Trump’s second term in office. But the ties soared amid 50 per cent tariffs and India outright rejecting Trump's claims that Washington had brokered the India–Pakistan ceasefire in May 2025. 

The partnership still faces several structural challenges even as optimists try to bank a lot on past 'deep linkages'.   

The future of global politics as well as India-US ties are uncertain. Amid the reckless war in the Middle East and some major chaos in Europe, the shadow of a new world order dos not look all that fine.

Vladimir Putin has able to re-establish Moscow's position in more ways than one. Moscow has proposed a summit between Russia, US under Trump and China’s Xi Jinping, to be held in China next month. 

Does it mean; Trump could leave his most dangerous legacy -- a world divided into three and yet these three nations will run the show with their own distinct agenda. Where would a country like India accommodate itself ? 

BRICS is just one option. But China has a peculiar nature when it comes to borders. Lately, the border pockets of Asaphila and Longju in Arunachal Pradesh remain sensitive due to differing perceptions of the Line of Actual Control (LAC) between India and China.

The ground is stated to be stable nevertheless.  Located within the Taksing Circle of Arunachal Pradesh, the two areas experience periodic friction as Indian and Chinese patrols encounter each other during routine operations. 

Such encounters have become a recurring feature of the security environment in these sectors. 

A regional party the People's Party of Arunachal Pradesh (PPA) delegation led by a former minister and PPA chief adviser Kahfa Bengia, visited Taksing on July 10, 2026. 

The party's findings have emerged amid renewed concerns over Chinese activities along the LAC in Upper Subansiri district. Itanagar-based The Arunachal Times newspaper reported on August 10 that a four-member PPA's FFC had found that PLA troops were effectively blocking Indian access to designated patrolling points. Even as the Govt denied the reports, the PPA had said that Chinese "incremental intrusions" were being consolidated on the ground.  

 

 

On the global stage yet again, the US under Trump is offering a peculiar scenario. 

Last year’s National Security Strategy was deeply critical of the US’s traditional allies in Europe and east Asia. To the surprise of many Russia and China were given undue weightage.

The 33-page document made 'clear' that so long as the US still had economic dominance, it cared little whether other parts of the world are protected. “The affairs of other countries are our concern only if their activities directly threaten our interests.” America’s allies had “sucked" US into conflicts and controversies central to their interests but peripheral or irrelevant to America's own interests.

For Putin, this is a success. He always believed that American support for democracy in eastern Europe and central Asia was “interference” in Russia’s backyard. Now the US president says so.  The papers also applauded China for being “rich and powerful".

Worse, the section on Russia’s war in Ukraine fails to mention how it started and did not suggest that Putin should be defeated.

India playing the 'long game' with the US   

There are some complex matters in US-India diplomacy and commerce. In 2025-26, the US remained India’s largest goods trade partner and its single largest export market. All these in a year of post-Sindoor remarks from Trump and repeated threats on tariffs. 

The US is also India’s largest source of foreign portfolio investment and one of its top FDI sources.  

Moreover, there have been 13 industry agreements and licenses, and multiple defense procurement pacts. 

India signed a $45.7 million Javelin anti-tank missile purchase and a $204.5 million lease of two MQ-9B SeaGuardian drones. 

Tata Advanced Systems and the Lockheed Martin-Raytheon Javelin Joint Venture signed an MoU to explore production in India.

HAL reported resolving technical issues surrounding the proposed co-production of 99 GE F414 engines. Honeywell licensed GMR Aero Technic to maintain components on LEAP engines.  Moreover, Boeing Defence India partnered with Merlinhawk Aerospace to sustain sensors on Indian platforms.  

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The India–US strategic, economic, and technological partnership maintains deep foundational strengths despite periodic political and trade headwinds.  

• Trade volume reached approximately $240 billion, with ongoing momentum toward a broader economic framework. They also share a robust defense partnership featuring joint military exercises (including complex drills near the border), logistics cooperation, intelligence-sharing, and co-production of hardware under the U.S.–India Major Defense Partnership.

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It's a thriller and quite an average one ::: Big picture message of 'Gajab Raat' starring Manoj Bajpayee is an 'enthusiastic tribute' to hundreds of honest people amid a much larger crowd of greedy and corrupt top guns

This new film 'Gajab Raat' starring Manoj Bajpayee is a thriller. That's something usual in this era of Netflix and other such platforms. 

The film is a piece of entertainment no doubt but a sort of unusual clash between his conscience and greed is the project's unique selling point.

Past midnight, as the movie ends - one thought greets the mind - it should have done better.

Sub-inspector Ajay Nirvit (Manoj Bajpayee) is a corrupt, bribe-loving Delhi cop. His immediate senior colleague (Rajiv Gupta) too like him dreams of a posh bungalow with a swimming pool and both taking a dip into it. 

During a routine night of patrols, an unidentified, severely injured young woman is thrown from a moving vehicle in Delhi's Connaught Place. It takes time to discover that the injured protagonist is a journalist.

Manoj Bajpyee : Same old Mission - "a different breed" of cop 

What starts as a simple case drags Ajay into a murky, high-level conspiracy involving a powerful woman politician and the international web of crime -- where vaccine import is the source of crores exchanging hands and offshore deposits worked out during the minister's visit to Poland.

The scribe collects 'evidence' of the scam and a list of Netas and 320 others including bureaucrats and NGOs being part of the scandal.  

Produced by Neeraj Pandey’s Friday Film Works and directed by Ritesh Shah, the film unfolds over a single night, as one decision sets off a chain of events with far-reaching consequences.  

For Neeraj Pandey, 'Gajab Raat' continues his creative association with Netflix, following the Khakee series, 'Sikandar Ka Muqaddar', and Taskaree. 

The film also marks his reunion with Manoj Bajpayee after nearly a decade, bringing the two together.  

Several important people want to get to the severely injured scribe - not to save her. Most want her eliminated.

Social worker Neha (Shraddha Das), the Central Bureau of Investigation’s Madhok (Akshay Oberoi) and the National Investigation Agency’s Karan (Saqib Saleem). In the hospital - where she is being treated - all these characters with occasional instructions from the Minister (Divya Dutt) face a 'wall' created by Ajay. But he too is vulnerable to greed and all that he does is not with altruistic (or unselfish) motives.  

But Manoj Bajpayee holds together the film otherwise with a lot of weakness in writings. A better script could have made a better movie certainly. Cop Ajay is corrupt and hence his 'moral transformation' is out of the blue in the film.  

Something else this film is not :  it does not offer a closer examination of the system that has a corrupt nexus of cops, ministers, CBI and NIA officials. 

Dialogues like - "Do char crore aur le lena. kahatam karo ladki ko" - from the minister do not sound convincing even for a Bollywood product. 

Talented Divya Dutt is not really explored adequately as a Neta 

At one point - cop Ajay pleas the minister and seeks "doosra raasta" .. other than to kill her. She shots back : "Doosra rasta ki baat kar rahe ho, kyon ki tum sadak pe hi ho (You are talking about an alternative road, because you are still on roads. I have come up much higher up the ladder and this ant like scribe woman wants to destroy me". 

The big picture message of the film is an 'enthusiastic tribute' to hundreds of honest people amid a much larger crowd of greedy and corrupt top guns. Ajay says it is this smaller club of 'honest people' who has kept the balance in the society and the country.   

He tells the minister - something obvious but in a metaphorical style - "If these honest people vanish, how will we corrupt people survive (Hum dhanda kaise karenge)". 

 

Finally, as a working journalist and these days a struggling freelancer -- one can relate to the journalism-reality world better -- where the editor Sarkar (a Bong surname) is portrayed as someone who betrays the young reporter.  

The character of cop Ajay often finds himself in a predicament, which is definitely an indicator of an entertaining drama. Of curse, this is a genre in which the actor has excelled in the past. But here - even Manoj Bajpyee appears under-utilised. 

Missing gaps are too many. A below average script, there is no sentimental connect - which normally go down well with the audience and comedy attempts too is half-hearted.

Nevertheless, the film is worth viewing once.  Manoj Bajpayee fans would not mind a second dosage of viewing. 

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Why Modi won't lose 'crown' ??? ::: Has BJP lost magic-power of Hindutva slogans? ::: Pressure is on Yogi to do miracles in 2027

The North contest in March 2027 : Three key states - UP, Punjab, Uttarakhand 

"The boiling pot of identity politics" 

In Punjab - It will be Sikh-Hindu game plans, caste idioms and Drug. 

In Manipur - its Hindutva BJP and Meiteis ... and also ethnic clashes between Kukis and Nagas -- both Christian communities and also between Kukis and Meiteis. 

'Meitei Muslims' -- untouched by cycle of violence  

Religious identity: BJP's national strategy clashes with Caste idioms in Uttar Pradesh and also Punjab.

Hence, India’s fiercest electoral contest will be in Yogi Adityanath-ruled UP. 

Earlier this year; such contest vis-a-vis battles of narratives and 'religious polarisation' were witnessed in Assam and West Bengal.

In Assam, Congress won 19 seats - 18 MLAs are Muslims.

It is not merely Yogi (an Ascetic) factor. The religious identity will be central to political strategy for the BJP in UP, Punjab and perhaps also in Uttarakhand and Goa. 

West Bengal, with an estimated 30–33 percent Muslim population, and under Mamata Banerjee with her populism could not retain power. 

In UP, Samajwadi Party leader has a chance to defeat BJP. But SP and its Akhilesh Yadav will face "relentless attacks from the BJP", which paints him as excessively pro-Muslim. 

Akhilesh should have played better cards and worked harder. His politics - unlike his dad Late Mulayam Singh Yadav - is not based on 'expansion' of party base. After emerging as the largest party of UP in Lok Sabha in 2024 general elections; the SP should have been a better position to take on Yogi. One mistake perhaps committed by Akhilesh was is decision in 2024 to move to Lok Sabha. 

That means he has abandoned state politics.  

In contrast, BJP will make Yogi -- the face of the Lotus party - even as there is speculation that the Lotus party will make UP "a top priority" after becoming the second-largest party in 2021.

Like West Bengal, whether the politics in UP has collapsed into a polarized two-way fight is a normal query. 

Hindus, Muslims, and Christians all joining hands can make identity politics more unpredictable in Manipur and Goa.

The alleged “infiltration” of Bengali-speaking Muslims from Bangladesh remains a contentious electoral issue.

However, there could be a strong anti incumbency politics amid  economic stagnation 'breeding' resentment.  Frustration in UP is also real. 

“Uttar Pradesh seriously and desperately need jobs and functioning health facilities,” says businessman Kailash Maurya. 

Chief Minister Yogi is more than just a firebrand BJP leader. He is known for hardline policies and has faced several challenges since 2017. His immensely useful card will be improved law and order.

There is even quiet a speculation that post 2027 ... in the run up to the 2029 general elections, Yogi Adityanath will have to work more closely with PM Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah. The BJP has kept the stage further complicated by suggesting that even after 2029 polls, Namo will continue to be at the helm of affairs.

There are other speculation areas if Yogi moves to Delhi; who takes over in Lucknow ?

Either in Goa, Manipur or UP; the BJP’s strategies do revolve round splitting minority votes and consolidating Hindu support. In Bihar, it succeeded in dividing Muslim votes; similar tactics will likely shape campaigns in UP as well. 

About UP; one can say --- "Anger over electoral rolls will count in 2029 only if it is combined with grievances over jobs, prices, and failed examinations".

The BJP hopes to outsmart everyone by use of Hindutva as an axis of India’s electoral politics. But in 2024 - it did not yield expect results. So the BJP has started working on its core voters as well as win over certain 'marginalised' voters.    

A lot of hype and misleading statements and media interpretation is already there seeking to glorify Rahul Gandhi. But Congress has not made much ground despite a series of protests in Delhi and other places.

Amid all these; -- Can the Modi government be described as someone who lost ground ?

On Oct. 6, Rahul Gandhi, the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, led more than 300 MPs, from Parliament towards the Election Commission, where police stopped them and detained nearly 250. Rahul Gandhi and his sister Priyanka and fellow parliamentarians staged a sit-in at Akashvani Bhawan.  But all these will not transform into votes.

The suspicion about the coming assembly elections in key states and the next general elections in 2029 does not rest on the electoral rolls alone. 

BJP's "Delimitation" plan and also “One Nation, One Election” have hit opposition parties largely.

They do not know how to react.

It is also argued that the population in India’s northern states is expected to grow. Hence out of proposed 850 seats in new Indian parliament after Delimitation; the northern states will have more number of MPs.

Hence the southern states and parties such as DMK or even protagonists such as the TDP and Vijat-led outfit in Tamil Nadu will have their base shrunk --- and have their 'concerns' diminished.

The Opposition, which voted as one against the Bill, feared that the formula would still favor the populous north. The government was compelled to withdraw its companion Delimitation Bill, but the question will return after the national census, which will be completed next year. 

The upcoming set of provincial elections in these states in 2026 will be a referendum not only on governance but also on the direction of India’s democracy. 

The contest is increasingly shifting from development to identity, from performance to polarization.

India’s electoral future is being shaped not by economic debate but by competing visions of what it means to belong — in a nation where belonging has never been easy to define, and is becoming harder still.

Whether Modi will lose his crown depends on matters that the present agitation can influence but cannot settle by itself. He continues to enjoy the confidence of the RSS.

The next general elections will be fought on the electoral register and beyond especially in the months on the eve of March 2027 big battle.

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One key NPP leader joins BJP ::::: Why Conrad Sangma is going the Neiphiu Rio way ?? :::: Numbers count .... :::: The real fable is "Hamam mein sab ..... taking bath" ::: All eyes on 2028 ... will BJP unseat Rio and Conrad ???

In an interesting development, Kitborlang Giri Jarain, the North Shillong President of the National People's Youth Front (NPYF), resigned from the Conrad Sangma-led NPP citing personal reasons and joined the BJP in Meghalaya on October 22, 2026. 

He was formally inducted in Shillong by state BJP chief spokesman Mariahom Kharkrang. This transition aligns with broader political shifts in the state, such as UDP MLAs merging with the BJP amid changing dynamics within the ruling MDA coalition.

Three United Democratic Party (UDP) legislators — Paul Lyngdoh, Renikton Lyngdoh Tongkhar and Nujorki Sungoh have submitted their merger application to Assembly Speaker Thomas A. Sangma, seeking to join the Meghalaya's ruling party National People’s Party (NPP). 

The move reduces the UDP’s strength in the 60-member House to a single MLA.  This regional outfit (UDP) had won as many as 12 seats in 2023 and  is now left with a sole member. 

Eight MLAs earlier joined BJP. For Meghalaya chief minister and NPP boss, Conrad Sangma - this defection game has a minor twist in the tale. 

Conrad --- taking 'key political lessons' from Naga CM Rio 

In Nagaland -- all his five MLAs - were encouraged by his dad's friend Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio to embrace NPF. 

Subject to formal recognition by the Speaker, the NPP’s strength in the 60-member Meghalaya Assembly would rise to 36.  

The UDP on Monday expelled the three legislators just hours before they submitted their merger letter to the Assembly Speaker.

The decision was taken at an emergency meeting of the UDP State Parliamentary Board at the party office on Monday afternoon. In a letter addressed to the three, party president Metbah Lyngdoh said their decision to join the NPP was evident from local news reports.

Phek district : Rural Nagaland 

The National People's Party (NPP) and the BJP fought fiercely against each other in 2023 Meghalaya polls. The Lotus party even labelled 'corruption charges' against the Conrad Sangma-government. In fact, the alliance started in 2018.

The BJP won only two seats in both 2018 and 2023 polls. The saffron party maintains that it continues to "share alliance" with NPP in ruling Meghalaya Democratic Alliance (MDA) government led by Conrad Sangma.

Even as both the parties maintain that their coalition is intact; there are chance the BJP will try to topple Conrad before 2028 March assembly elections.  

In Nagaland, the BJP favours giving free hand to the Rio-led NPF even as the utmost desire for an early solution to the Naga insurgency still remains a far cry. 

Lately, former Nagaland chief minister S C Jamir met RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat and complained about non-performance of the Rio-led NPF-BJP dispensation.  The episode created ripples in Nagaland politics. 

In 2018 as well as in 2023; the BJP settled to contest only 20 seats and left 40 for the NDPP - which was headed by Rio. 

In 2025, in a dramatic turn of events - Rio-led NDPP merged with the NPF - which had only 2 (two) legislators. Subsequently, Rio took over as the NPF president.

In July this year, even a small party named the Rising People's Party (RPP), which showed lot of promise by exposing Rio regime's failures, has merged with the NPF.

There is no opposition in the Nagaland legislature as Rio heads a 'so-called' opposition-less dispensation. 

Even Congress, which could have tried to take on the Rio regime, generally takes up softer issues and at times even Rio-friendly matters for public consumption. 

This image reflects 'apathy and underdevelopment' story of Eastern Nagaland

Prominent local eastern Nagaland leader Nyamnyei Konyak, who was president of NPP in Nagaland, also joined NPF earlier October. 

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Tripura Police in Delhi to take custody of social media influencer Amir Shokeen ::::: Racial abuse video row ::::: In 2007 Delhi police 'was different' and gave tips on how North East students should behave in national capital

Delhi police ... with you, for you always. Now in action.

 

The First Information Report (FIR) was registered by Delhi Police at the Sadar Bazar police station under Sections 192, 196, 352, and 353 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS). 

Influencer Amir Shokeen’s location was traced to Shahdara on Thursday (Oct 22) afternoon. 

Officials said that he had been continuously changing his location. 

On Wednesday evening, Sadar Bazar Police arrested the influencer from Karol Bagh area with the help of technical surveillance.

A team of Tripura Police reached Delhi to take custody of social media influencer Amir Shokeen, who was arrested by Delhi Police from the national capital’s Karol Bagh area in connection with an alleged incident of racial harassment and humiliation of an individual from Tripura, depicted in a video circulating on social media.

Delhi police said that he had been hiding at a relative’s house. 

Meanwhile, a team of the Tripura Police, who had already registered a case against Amir Shokeen, have reached Delhi. 

To obtain his transit remand, the police will produce Shokeen before a court. 

He made the controversial video about a month ago. 

Earlier, Shokeen apologised after the offensive video surfaced on social media and earned him major backlash.

Shokeen claimed that the video was scripted and that the man featured in it was known to him. He said the man had previously worked at a friend’s cafe in Ahmedabad and described the exchange as a humorous video in which both people were joking.   

It was a different Delhi exactly 19 years back.

In 2007, West Delhi police 'was different' and gave tips on how North East students should behave in national capital  

A booklet titled "Security Tips for North East Students/Visitors" was published by West Delhi cops. The booklet contained 'tips' on traveling in Delhi. It advised among other things to avoid "revealing clothes". 

That was Congress era and many people have memory problems. 

Students and citizens I spoke to had complained that the Delhi police conduct was "medieval". Some of them remembered what a Maharashtrian IAS officer (a former chief secretary of Nagaland) - A M Gokhale used to say: 

"New Delhi still thinks and behaves like Aurangzeb's Delhi".  

My report in 'The Statesman' on the subject in 2008 

Step out of our social boundaries and we find for northeastern people - nothing much has changed in the national capital and the adjoining region - fondly called 'NCR'. 

An office goer - who studied in Delhi - said : "I come from Mizoram .... People would often ask us whether we will cook beef and pork... or even whether we will take dry fish which throws up aroma on Tuesdays or some festival days".   

Essentially, the moot point is - social discrimination continues. 

The manual of West Delhi cops in 2007 had said --- ** Avoid lonely road/bylane when dressed scantily.  *

* For Help, Dial 100 and always carry pepper spray 

** For Dating - Go to decent places 

**** Food  -- Bamboo shoot and other smelly dishes should be prepared without creating ruckus in neighbourhood.   

Who'll Bell the Cat ?

A few years I interacted with a group of Naga students on these matters. One of them told me : "We may want to stay in big cities ... but our insurgency and other related issues haunt us even if our family could be miles away from all that. We are often suspected of being involved with militant groups and worse, even drug addicts and peddlars".  For the ladies - the stories and tales of 'experience' are only worse. 

In fact, a Bollywood film starred among others by Amitabh Bachhan shows a 'Delhi wallah youngster' telling a court -- "What do I do, this girl is from Meghalaya. They are like this".  

The story in the film 'Pink' (2016) revolves around molestation of four young working girls in Delhi. 

Years back a significant recommendation was made by the Sachar Committee calling for a need to 'broad base' the institutional support to India’s diverse population going beyond religion, caste and ethnic identities.  To operationalise this, the committee recommended an equal opportunity commission. Actually nothing much moved on that. 

But no law or commission can resolve these problems. It's in people's mind and habit.  

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What's "Self Reliance" in Security for Gulf, Europe and even Asian nations ? -- It means America is changing --- and these countries need to look out for themselves

 America's grip is weakening. There are multiple factors for that. "America as the guarantor to the world, it is no longer there," said Tom Barrack, the US envoy to Turkey. Importantly, he is also Donald Trump's special envoy for Syria and Iraq.

The United States is moving away from its 'traditional' security-for-oil relationship with the Middle East and no longer seeks to dominate the region, he emphasised. However, he sought to clarify that what is happening is "not abandonment" but definitely a "message for realignment". “The US no longer wants to own ...The bargain is not to control, but to not leave. We’re not leaving.”  

Barrack also questioned the effectiveness of previous interventions, saying that the US had been involved in ”23 regime changes” across the wider Middle East.

“Every time we try and intervene, change the person or the regime, it seems to have been a mistake,” he said.

His comments come as Washington and Tehran try to negotiate an end to the US-Israeli war on Iran that has destabilised the region and disrupted global energy supplies. Analyst Luciano Zaccara described Barrack as probably “the most realistic of Trump’s allies” in his assessment of US involvement in the Middle East. Barrack also said that the war launched by Israel and the US in February 2026 brought unexpected consequences. He said there are lessons to be learnt and there are limits to US power.  

This means Barrack has "effectively acknowledged" that regime change, one of Trump’s stated objectives in the war on Iran, was unlikely to succeed.  

There is yet another 'plan' for an Iran-US deal. This move envisages reopening the Strait of Hormuz and resuming nuclear negotiations in exchange for US concessions, including lifting the naval blockade on Iranian ports.

There are also possibilities of easing economic sanctions on Tehran.

Analyst Negar Mortazavi said the diplomatic door remained open, but negotiations were stalled over the terms and sequencing of an agreement. “Tehran wants to end the war, but it is not prepared to surrender under military or economic pressure,” she told Al Jazeera on the sidelines of the forum in Doha.

The Strait of Hormuz remains a major flashpoint, with attacks on commercial shipping raising concerns over global energy supplies. Before the US-Israeli war on Iran, one-fifth of the world’s oil and gas supplies transited through the strait.

The escalation was part of Tehran’s strategy to maintain leverage against Washington despite its military disadvantages. Iran’s leverage has diminished but has not disappeared.

According to Mortazavi, Tehran wants to increase the economic and political costs of the war for Trump, while signalling to future US administrations that military action against Iran carries consequences.  

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But there are ifs and buts. 

Gulf countries are looking nervously at Saudi Arabia, where missile and drone attacks by Houthi militants have damaged energy facilities and the international airport in capital Riyadh.  However, the US does not mind "smaller and more diversified alliances" in the Gulf like the new defence pact between Saudis, Pakistanis and the leadership in Turkey.  

There is also a significant element of lack of understanding. The US has not simply seen where the things would ultimately go yet. But there is yet another perspective. Under Trump - there is always a confused and mixed signals. 

These do not auger well for the world. Worse, they have hit US credibility either. 

At the end of the US has remained 'weak and even insufficient'; but it is a fact of life that the Americans will remain highly involved and influential in the region.  

Nevertheless, the continued escalation posed serious risks to Iran as well as the wider region.  

The 8th edition of the Global Security Forum 2026 concluded in Doha on Wednesday after three days of discussions under the theme “Future of Alliances.”

The forum brought together senior officials and prominent figures from more than 100 countries to discuss the future of alliances and collective security amid evolving geopolitical challenges.

The final day featured high-level dialogues on changes in the international security landscape, the implications of conflicts involving Ukraine and Iran, security developments in Africa, and the role of technology and non-state actors in shaping emerging security threats.

Discussions also addressed cooperation and intelligence sharing, the security challenges posed by drones, the use of artificial intelligence in preventing and combating terrorism, and the future of alliances amid diverging political positions.

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Modi knows when to take on Rahul Gandhi and how !! Amid row over 'Vietnam visit' and repeated attempts to unleash 'anarchy'; PM says - "When the entire world is in search of a new order, some people are dreaming of disorder in India" :::: "Today's challenge is emergence of a new global order and also how to build an order"

"Congress has become 'par-jibi (parasites)".

 "When the entire world is in search of a new order, some people are dreaming of disorder in India", - PM Narendra Modi said at the NDTV World Summit. 

These people go abroad and defame India. They ask foreigners to intervene," Namo said.  

"Today, when there is so much disorder in the world, a strong picture of India should be presented to the world, but these people are interested only in ruining the reputation of the country, the Prime Minister said.  Modi launched a sharp attack on the Congress and said that the principal opposition party was putting national interests at risk in its repeated attempts to 'launch' its "failed" leader, Rahul Gandhi.  

Without naming Rahul Gandhi, the Prime Minister questioned how long the Congress would continue its efforts to establish its leader, using a comparison with repeated launch attempts to ridicule the party's political strategy. 

"I don't know how long the Congress will continue to put the country at stake for the launch of its failed product. 

(The Satish Dhawan Space Centre at) Sriharikota does not see as many launches as the Congress tries, unsuccessfully, to launch its leader in a year," he quipped.  

"Protests that naturally seek to highlight the shortcomings of the government, that genuinely aim to improve the system, which is essential for a healthy democracy, are also destroyed by the Congress," Modi pointed out.

"The Congress has become a "par-jibi (parasite)" that refuses to let anyone else progress. 

"Dimagi Naxals have taken such a 'kabzaa (firm grip) on the Congress’s mindset that the party has lost its own capacity to think...". 

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Modi said:

"This family of the Congress has become a burden on its own party. 

Even the senior figures in the party understand this; when we meet in private, they even tell us so. 

"But, swallowing the bitter pill of humiliation, they remain silent. This attitude of the Congress also harms the honest critics of the government and in a democracy, this is a heavy price to pay". 

"Honest critics suffer greatly because of this. The voices of those honest critics who genuinely care for the well-being of our democracy and the nation, and who, despite being staunch opponents of the government, seek to contribute, are left with no opportunity to be heard amidst the Congress’s constant shouting and uproar." 

"We have witnessed this in Parliament...".  

He further said: "...In a single year, there are fewer launches from our space centre at Sriharikota than the number of failed attempts the Congress makes to launch its leader."

"While the world is searching for a new order, some people are dreaming of disorder for India. These individuals are bent on tarnishing India’s reputation. They travel abroad to defame the nation and plead with foreigners to intervene in our affairs". 

"One wonders how much longer the Congress party will continue to put the nation at stake in its persistent attempts to launch its failed product," Modi said.

. In a single year, there are fewer launches from our space centre at Sriharikota than the number of failed attempts the Congress makes to launch its leader. 

The Congress is free to bring about its own ruin, that is of no concern to us. 

"But, in a desperate bid to shield their own family from the stain of constant failure, the Congress is now casting doubt on India’s achievements, its virtues and its progress," he said.   

PM also said:

"New powers are emerging, new voices are demanding their place, and new challenges are calling for new solutions. 

"When the realities of the world change but the way decisions are made remains the same, the gap between the global system and reality begins to widen. 

"This is what we are witnessing today. Trade is becoming a tool of weaponisation. Technology is emerging as a new arena for competition and conflict, while sea routes are becoming centres of geopolitical tensions." 

He added: "Therefore, today's challenge is not merely the emergence of a new global order, but how to build an order that accommodates changing realities, makes global institutions more effective, and strengthens cooperation among nations...".

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