India ‘Proactively’ Increases Arabian Sea Naval Power to Intimidate Pirates
Indian Navy Chief of Staff Adm.R Hari Kumar said on Wednesday that India is beefing up its Arabian Sea naval presence to intimidate pirates.
Indian Navy Chief of Staff Adm.R Hari Kumar said on Wednesday that India is beefing up its Arabian Sea naval presence to intimidate pirates.
India sent ten warships to deter the Iran-backed Houthis and other pirates but refused to join U.S.-led Operation Prosperity Guardian.
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) immediately criticized Secretary of State Antony Blinken for once again leaving Nigeria off the State Department’s annual list of “Countries of Particular Concern” (CPC) for religious oppression.
The government of the Maldives on Sunday suspended three deputy ministers for making disparaging remarks about Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The BRICS economic group dealt with some internal oil drama this week, as Iran withheld oil shipments from China to demand higher prices and India cut back on its heavy purchases of Russian oil because Russia was no longer peddling crude at fire-sale discounts.
Threats to shipping continued to escalate on Thursday, as an explosive-packed drone boat launched by the Houthi terrorists of Yemen exploded in the Red Sea, while a group of as-yet unidentified but possibly Somali pirates stormed a Liberian-flagged merchant ship near the coast of Somalia.
The anti-American BRICS economic and security coalition will welcome five new members on January 1: a country in a severe economic crisis, another openly defaulting on its sovereign debt, and two countries embroiled in a proxy war against each other.
India’s Ministry of Coal says it will not be transitioning to any alternative form of energy in the “foreseeable future.”
Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister says the country has largely completed the process of shifting its oil exports from Europe to China and India.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reported on Tuesday that Iran had tripled its production of uranium enriched to 60 percent.
India is deploying three guided missile destroyers to the Arabian Sea after a drone last week hit an “Israel-affiliated” merchant vessel off its western coast.
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) warned in its annual report that religious freedom deteriorated around the world in 2023, a net loss driven by increasingly vicious crackdowns from theocracies like Iran and authoritarian regimes like China and Cuba.
The Hindu nationalist government of India presided over the escalation of Christian persecution in the country at a “record pace” in 2023, religious freedom experts told Breitbart News, and faces little to no pressure to protect their Christian populations from the West.
CARACAS, Venezuela — The Venezuelan socialist Maduro regime is expecting a substantial increase in its oil exports in 2024 after President Joe Biden eased oil sanctions on the rogue socialist regime in October.
Thirteen unaccompanied minors are among over 300 Indian passengers on a flight to Nicaragua held in France over suspected human trafficking.
The Indian parliament suspended 79 lawmakers from opposition parties on Monday for disrupting a session, followed by another 48 on Tuesday. 14 others were suspended last week, bringing the total to 141 since December 14 – a remarkably high number of suspensions for even the rowdy Indian legislature.
China’s state-owned Sinochem Corporation purchased a million barrels of Venezuelan crude oil for delivery in December.
President Joe Biden declined an invitation this week from Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to visit New Delhi for Republic Day in late January.
CARACAS, Venezuela – Indian Oil Minister Hardeep Singh Puri announced India will resume purchasing Venezuelan oil since the Biden administration lifted sanctions.
An intruder penetrated security at the Indian parliament Wednesday, leaping into the lawmakers’ area and detonating a smoke bomb.
Cimate envoy John Kerry scolded the world for not making enough sacrifices to fight climate change at the COP28 climate conference.
The U.N.’s COP28 climate summit begins on Thursday, hosted by one of the world’s great oil powers, the United Arab Emirates.
A stampede during a music festival at a university in southern India on Saturday killed at least four students and injured 60 others.
Israel on Tuesday banned the Pakistan-based terrorist organization Lashkar-e-Taiba, perpetrators of the Mumbai massacre in November 2008.
Uttar Pradesh, the most heavily populated of India’s states, has banned the sale of “halal-certified” food products.
Multiple eye drops have been recalled after a report divulged “insanitary conditions” at a factory in Mumbai, India.
The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) released a report this week that found China has become a leading power in operating seaports across the globe, as well as “the world’s largest trading country and second-largest economy.”
The U.N. Environment Program (UNEP) and Stockholm Environment Institute published a report Wednesday that said governments around the world, led by fast-growing India and world’s worst polluter China, plan to exceed the Paris Agreement’s limits on fossil fuels by more than 110% by 2030.
Iran’s frantic effort to drag the BRICS coalition into defending the Hamas terrorists included a phone call between Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday.
Police in India’s southern state of Kerala announced three fatalities from the bombing of a Jehovah’s Witness convention.
El Salvador imposed a $1,000 fee on travelers from India and Africa this week in an effort to curb illegal migration to America.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi issued multiple statements this week effusively condemning the Hamas jihadist terror group for its massacre of Israeli citizens and expressing support for the government of Israel – placing India firmly against radical Islamic terror and cementing its place as a Jerusalem ally.
New Delhi police arrested the editor of NewsClick, a website critical of President Narendra Modi’s administration.
The Indian government reportedly instructed Canada on Tuesday to withdraw 41 members of its diplomatic corps from Indian soil.
Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar denounced the “climate of violence” against Indian diplomats in Canada.
A group of hackers calling themselves the “Indian Cyber Force” claimed responsibility on Thursday for crashing the official website of the Canadian Armed Forces.
Indian External Relations Minister S. Jaishankar declared during his address to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday that “the days when a few nations set the agenda and expected others to fall in line are over,” positioning India as a top role model for the developing world.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau declined to publicize the evidence for his allegations of murder against the Indian government on Thursday, but he said the evidence was copious and called on India to cooperate with the investigation into Sikh separatist leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar’s death.
Canada and India each expelled a diplomat after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudea accused India of murdering a prominent Sikh leader.
The Indian state of Kerala shut down schools and colleges in the city of Kozhikode through September 24 in response to the confirmation of six cases of Nipah virus, a bat-borne pathogen whose outbreaks have resulted in death rates as high as 94 percent.