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It is evident that Mr Rahul Gandhi is a chronic liar. This time he has put his foot in his own mouth rather heavily. His congress party is trying hard to control the damages caused by his “Foot in Mouth” disease.

There are several types of Human Rights Violations going on the world over, ranging from minor offences to gross genocidal violence. If one major cause of these violence is to be singled out, it is Quran preaching Islamic intolerance & atrocities, barbarism and genocide.

Today, when the war has been ravaging for one year, Ukraine is the prime victim of the Russia-NATO game plan. There are fears of the war escalating further. President Zelenskyy has become a pone on the NATO-Russian chessboard, sacrificing Ukrainian interests.

The Earth is being continuously being degraded by multitudes of factors. The main culprits are the greenhouse effects of temperature caused mainly by the carbon loads of fossil fuel and Coal burning. The other factors that will make our planet uninhabitable is the nuclear explosions that only needs a trigger by any of the rogue nations possessing it. Surely a chain of retaliatory explosions will follow. There are stockpiles of thousands of nuclear bombs that can destroy our planet or at least make it uninhabitable. There is a need for Climate Activists to visualise the greater picture to preserve our precious environment so that we and our next generations could live safely, breathing healthy air.

The followings are the official numbers of incidents involving major Islamic Jihadi attacks the world over that caused significant casualties of >10 with several folds of those injured many of whom succumbed to their injuries at a later date.

Preserving the Climate on planet Earth is the joint responsibility of all nations. There is no doubt that our planet has been exploited badly till now, in unplanned ways in the name of development. These activities have already induced Climate changes that may soon become irreversible.

The UN continues showing its biases in dealing with the global population while favouring one group and conveniently ignoring the others. There is no reason why only the Climate Change victims be compensated and not the Covid19, Jihad victims or the unprovoked war victims around the world. The time has come when the UN agencies have to be transparent in its approaches and be fair in compensating all types of victims falling prey to the ulterior motives of others.

Amidst the see-saw fluctuations in Indo-Bangla relations over decades, the Vijay-Diwas remains a major milestone in history.

Amidst the see-saw fluctuations in Indo-Bangla relations over decades, the Vijay-Diwas remains a major milestone in history. In the initial years of independence, Bangladesh did show their obligations to India. It is worth remembering that large numbers of Indian troops had laid-down their lives in the liberation of Bangladesh. However, hawks in religious-hate politics within Bangladesh have started taking a divergent approach. Radical Islamic powers of the country have started seeking allegiance with Jihadist forces in Pakistan and BNP shows full intent to harbour such forces. The present govt has been able to keep the jihadist elements at bay to some extent esp those pertaining to Indo-Bangla relations.

Time has come when the Armed Forces of New India must change its strategies approach from largely passive defence to active/offensive proactive defence. It is true that India doesn’t believe in occupying others’ territories but that doesn’t mean that we should not create enough fear and apprehension in the mind and souls of our enemies to refrain from such indulgence.

Human Rights Violations and their reporting have taken a new turn through several biases. Both religious and ethnic minorities are facing persecution. Some of the Rights violations in Ukraine, Pakistan, Afghanistan and the Middle East are amounting to genocides yet not a single credible investigation has been undertaken by the Human Rights panel of the United Nations. A large number of member nations are losing faith in the UN and the Human Rights Council.

Numerous FIFA actions in past have been controversial or biased. It is a genuine question as to why the Asian and African continents receive ill treatment in representation while Europe takes the lion's share. It is the time when such anomalies must be corrected. Besides, the political biases in FIFA's decisions are appalling as elaborated

Time has come when the Armed Forces of New India must change its strategies from largely passive defence to active/offensive proactive defence.

Both Russia and Ukraine are trekking a dangerous path. Russia lacks military strategies to limit own losses and Ukraine has been inciting Russia to inflict the type of damages that they have been. If international communities or the mediators are unable to get a ceasefire in the near future, there is a strong possibility of Kiev/Lviv/Odesa to become another Hiroshima/Nagasaki

If Ukraine-NATO-EU continue pushing Putin too far, one may see the use of a low yield nuclear arsenal too within Ukraine (may be Kiev and Leviv/Odesa) that will be catastrophic. In all probabilities, NATO meddling will stop there…BUT Alas!!! Only after Kiev is destroyed. The situation is almost similar to the one that led USA to drop a Nuclear Bomb on Hiroshima. Hence, Russia may have a valid argument to attack Kiev with its nuclear arsenal. However, if NATO retaliates, Entire Europe, Russia and the US will run the risks of getting engulfed in the nuclear war.

Radical Islam possesses threats to several non-Islamic nations the world over, China has effectively kept them under check…both in preventing their proliferation as well as restricting their intolerance and bigotry towards others. The Chinese model of Islam has prevented the growth of Islamic terrorism in China. The measures adopted by the Chinese against their Muslims are acceptable even to the Islamic nations.

Comedian heads of States are seldom serious politicians who could be entrusted with the responsibilities to meet the aspirations of their people.

The communal attacks on Hindus and their temples in Leister (UK) on 17 Sep 22 indicate that the cancer of Islam on the British soil is there to stay. Who will know better than India that had to cut its own parts of the medieval Gandhar (Afghanistan), Sind (Pakistan) and Bengal due to Islamic Cancer. It is up to the British administration to choose whether they want to be corroded by the ever-proliferating Islamic cancer or get rid of them to have a peaceful existence.

Indo-Bangla relations have its own highs and lows in the past. However, the present leadership have the best of bilateral relations keen to resolve all sensitive (and some thorny) issues as well.

With Zaporizhia nuclear power plant taken over by Russia, Ukraine is going to pay a very heavy price of their President Zelensky’s blitzkriegs both in terms of loss of lives, territories and huge infrastructures. It is sad that the UNSC is defunct, witnessing all these helplessly

Afghanistan is in ruins even after 1 yr of Taliban takeover. Hunger among the vulnerable indicates that food aid by international agencies is not reaching the vulnerable population. Religious minorities are living in fear while terror killings are going on. Various institutions have been made defunct. Civil rights are at peril where the women are especially at the receiving end. Afghanistan is at brinks.

The national defence of India along LoC and LAC has been gearing up to the new and emerging challenges of our enemies and adversaries. The present defence measures along LoC and LAC are anything but robust and needs proactive measures to instil fears in the ranks and files of the terrorist forces based in PoK or our adversaries in PLA.

The elements of hate, intolerance, bigotry and fascism against the believers and followers of other faiths & religions are inherent in Islam. This is why Islam is at conflict with almost all other religions of the world today. It is incompatible with world peace. Time has come when the verses of hate/ intolerance from the religious Islamic books have to be removed.

The direction of the current waves orchestrated protests and their demands are baffling all economic analysts. How will the change of govt bail them out from near bankruptcy or shortages of fuel & food etc as acclaimed? There is surely more than meets the common eyes. It seems to be a very logical question about the Sri Lanka Protests whether it is Spontaneous or a Conspiracy?

The internal anger and revolt will only grow in the coming weeks and months. If the conflict/war history of the world could be of any lesson, Zelensky will surely be the first target of his own nationals.

The UN/UNSC must come to the defence of the defenceless now and hereafter. The credibility of the UN and UNSC is at a very high stake now than ever before. The UNSC has failed the world time and again in preventing wars as well as preventing humanity from scourage of war and urgently needs to be reformed or dissolved.

In the Ukrain war, the Russians are only reacting to the NATO designs presently in the hands of European Union led by Norwegian Stoltenberg.Unlike Trump era, USA is made to freely cough out huge funds to NATO. Congratulations NATO (Europe) for winning over the NATO (USA) and making them dance to your tunes.

Ukraine may be able to inflict heavy damages on Russia; Europe/NATO might apply crippling sanctions on Russia; Ukraine may/may not become member of EU and/or NATO; Ukraine might get plenty of NATO weapons to fight the Russians; Zelenskyy may become a blue eyed baby of the world…BUT…despite all these, one fact surpasses all gains…and that is the sufferings of Ukraine and Ukrainians…for which Zelenskyy alone as their State head is responsible.

The present US approach to India is doesn’t augur well for a warm relation esp in strategic terms. The US indifference to the humanitarian needs of India in the testing times of the worst pandemic, shows bankruptcy among the US think tanks. India has significant resilience among its professionals and population to withstand the challenges but the US has certainly lost at an excellent opportunity to win the Indian trust.

It is difficult to say if India can rely solely on the US for its security concerns…be it against the expansionist China, the terrorist threats of Pak & Afghanistan or Indian interests in Chabahar port of Iran. The ever increasing Chinese influence in the Indian neighbourhood of Myanmar, Hambantota, Gwadar or beyond are worrisome. Whether Quad is able to alleviate some concerns at least, Indian dilemma continues.

USA doesn’t deserve full Indian trust as yet. They cannot be trusted to come to India's assistance in case some dire situations develop at the UNSC or other international fora, contrary to what Russia has been doing. This is possibly the one single reason why Indian Govt is justifiably maintaining a neutral stand while choosing between Russia and the EU/NATO/USA or their allies.

The credibility of the UN and UNSC is at a very high stake now than ever before. It has failed the world and urgently needs to be reformed or dissolved lest all mightier nations will continue showing two fingers.

Was there some injustice done to the Uyghur Muslims? Possibly ‘Yes’ esp in the present context. Who should claim the legitimacy to Xinjiang/East Turkestan/Kashgar/Shule? Why not the original Hans? Why not the Yuezhi? Why not the Buddhists? Why only Muslims? All four share a substantial part of the religious history of the beleaguered State.

It is a composite failure of all Pakistani Govts of past, especially from the late 1980s after they started investing in the terror industry as well as in covert aspirations of a nuclear bomb. Today, any financial anomaly, any terror acts taking place in any part of the world has a Pakistani link. Pakistan is fast heading towards a failed States of the world that is worrisome for international agencies, fearing its nuclear arsenals getting into the wrong hands. It can only be debated whether Imran failed Pakistan or Pakistan failed Imran

We can say for sure that Pakistan is headed towards an uncertain path for both the new govt and the members of the ex-ruling parties. Imran and some of his minister's fates will be uncertain. High profile loots by the politicians are on cards. High pitch rhetorics against the previous govt officials and India could be expected in the period preceding the next elections.

In summary, it could be concluded that EU, NATO and Russia have started a very ugly game of supremacy in the region in which Ukraine is the battle-chessboard. EU & NATO will be pleased to keep this battlefield active in the Russian backyard. Mr Zelensky is behaving like a political naïve, turning his country to the ruins and its civilians to the risks of death. There is also a grave risk of conflagration of the conflict into World war if NATO tries to assist.

UNHRC credibility is at high stakes owing to the partisan reporting by the Amnesty groups in the two nations. While India is a vibrant democracy, Paki Amnesty reporters are scared lot, threatened by state-sponsored terrorists & Jihadists, unwilling to report the Rights violations. The worst, UNHRC takes all these reports at its face value. UNHRC biases are also evident when it fails to investigate the religious persecutions and vanishing religious minorities in the Islamic nations.

Amnesty international and the world Human Rights bodies are increasingly making themselves more and more irrelevant in todays' world owing to their highly biased approaches.

There is a need to draw conclusions from the ongoing Sino-Ukrainian conflict. Although Russian invasion into the Donbass region could partly be justified, it may encourage China to indulge in to its long-drawn ambitions of occupying Taiwan and the 5-fingers (Laddakh, Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim & Arunachal). That will be its monumental erroneous misadventure.

Ms Zheng Li, director of Wuhan Virus Lab deserves the highest prize in R&D if the nCoV2 was really modified in their "Gain of Function" experiments. While this virus has tormented the world with deaths, sufferings and devastations of the world economy, it has largely spared its inventing soil. While the world is in grief with the several variants originating automatically, China is smiling. The 'Batwoman' of China has created a monster, the most lethal biowarfare agent so far, that continues killing humanity through its many variants, for which she deserves a Nobel prize. The dragon has effectively resisted all international attempts to a credible transparent investigation in to the source of the virus. It is time that all sovereign nations should unite together to take joint action to compel China to compensate.

Time has come when Indian govt must prepare a comprehensive dosier against Pakistan on the numerous evidence-based terror-related activities as mentioned in the text box above. More evidence available with the intelligence agencies of India or our friendly nations like Afghnistan, USA and so on, may be added.

President Donald Trump was a hate figure for Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives led by the Democrats. She indulged in rampant Bigotry right from the day Trump assumed his office…in his first year, second year, third year and the fourth…leaving no stone turned to dent his image through series of investigations and impeachments.

There is no doubt that Trump was bit erratic, unpredictable…that many people died of Covid19 (mostly black) during his final year…that a history sheeter called Floyd died in the hands of the police in his time…that Nancy Pelosi led Democrats ‘play hell’ with him during his entire tenure.

Al-Aqsa mosque constructed on the ruins of Jewish temple has always been a source of confrontation between Muslims & Jews. The recent Israel-Palastine conflict was caused due to it.

Opposition political groups in Pakistan are gunning for Imran Khan to resign. PDM represents most of the radical and jihadi groups in Pakistan.

Nepal is losing its sovereignty to China. China interfering in Nepali affairs.

Vijay Diwas is the day of Bangladesh loberation. On this day Bangladesh got freedom from Pakistan.

India has been facing the Chinese expansionist designs at the LAC. The Chinese have been continuosly trying to indulge in their salami slicing policy towards India. The past governments of India have somewhat been tolerating it. They allowed almost half of the Indian territories to be occupied by the Chinese in its Depsang plains during 2009 to 2013 period. Now India finds it as an uphill task to get the occupied territories vacated.

India has effectively countered Chiense expansionist behaviour in Ladakh. Earlier it was the Doklam where the Chinese bully was counteres effectively in 2017.

The Galwan clash on 15/16 Jun 2020 has changed the Indo-Chinese relations possibly for ever. Till that flashpoint, the Indo-Chinese relations were doingreasonably well. But the Chinese agression demonstrated that the Chinese had little regard in compliance with the five border agreements. The Chiese had clearly violated a unilateral action in moving PLA on the LAC and secondly, they indulged in violence.

The Chinese actions actions at the LAC hs posed a big question as to what should be the Indian approach towards its expansionist neighbor China. Should there be a tit for tat or just stand firm on the defensive posture? Should it form an alliance with the friendly nations or should it stand against the Chinese on own. The article elaborates all such options.

China has had an economic rise sine late 80s. With the higher GDP, they have been able to invest heavily in the military build-up. They have acquired technological excellence the military too. Theur military hardwares have grown up. They have nearly acquired self-reliance in military technologies and are exporting too. PLA has substantialy higher military fighting capabilities. They have the largest numbers in naval vessels. In air power too, they have sunstancial numerical superiority. This article elaborates on all such issues.

The Chinese trying to dominate the South China sea has effectively been thwarted by the 'Quad Group' of security alliance of USA, India, Australia and Japan. All these four national have challenged the Chinese might in their own backyard.

Pakistan is at verge of being called a terrorist state. There are more than 140 UN proscribed terrorist in Pakistan.

The Chinese have reluctantly agreed to allow investigation in the source of Wuhan Virus. The virus is believed to have come from the Wuhan Lab of China.

Nepal is slowly going China way. The govt in Nepal is debt ridden to China. Indian diplomacy is somewhere taking a reversal.

The 9th of December marks a very important day for the world humanity. This day reminds us how cheap the human lives have been in the eyes of the mighty. Numerous men and women were killed in the past just because they belonged to a particular group of race, religion, faith, caste, creed and were not strong enough to defend themselves from the perpetrators of violence.

After the Galwan incident, plenty of talk have taken place between India and China but no solution seems to be coming to the fore. Instead, there are further widening of the gap. With the South China Sea escalation by the Chinese, US Navy has entered in to the frey. There is a real problem of a conflict taking shape. In turn, the QUAD group taking shape, a new world order seems to be taking shape.

In the last 73 yrs, Chinese have largely remained undetered to the Indian positions on the Sino-Indian border issues. Even with a renewed vigor under the present govt, the issue remains frozen. The time has come when India must make all such moves that culd send a clear signal to China to mend its way or else...

On the completion of its 2 yrs, Mod govt 2.0 is trying to audit its own performance. This article looks at the various hits and missed of the present govt. The performance seems to be more or less an average.

On the hindsight, it appears that the PLA had a very clear intent of encroaching in to strategic Indian territories at Pangong as well as Galwan. It was essentially for controlling the DS-DBO road…firstly to cut-off the life-line to the DBO airstrip and secondly, to threaten both Siachen Glacier through Murgo-Saser-Sasoma, and also supplementing any Pangong-Durbuk axis of encroachment in their future advance. That intent of the PLA got a severe blow after the troop mobilisation following Galwan violence.

Scaling the summit of Mt Everest has traditionally been from Nepal. Of late, China is adopting various means to discourage them. Recently it announced of making a demarcation line at the summit which is nothing but annex it from Nepal.

China has apparently bio-engineered a new biowarfare agent called SARS nCoV2 and tried it on Wuhan population. This trial has seemingly gone awry, so as to engulf the entire world…something that the Chinese are vehemently trying to disprove now. If the source of the Wuhan Virus is traced to the Wuhan Lab, the Chinese will be held culpable to millions of deaths and 100-odd millions of Covid cases all over the world and the enormous devastations that may cost them fortunes in the compensations.

Chinese expansionist behaviour against India has been a continuos irritant in Indoo-Chinese relationship. Chinese salami slicing of Indian territories in past can not be tolerated any more and the present Modi Govt is quite clear about it.

Human right abuse continues. Religious minorities are disappearing from the Islamic nations. Their women are abducted in open daylight. They have no religious freedom. UN must investigate the rights violations of the religious minorities in the Islamic countries as to why they have vanished.

The entire world is expectantly looking at the WHO team of the investigators for the origin of the Wuhan Virus causing pandemic. Whether the team was hand-picked by the Chinese administration or were the best professionals in their fields, the world population does not know. They firmly believe that the WHO will fulfil the aspirations of the world.

The time is come to act unitedly against the perpetrators of the new biowarfare agent called nCoV2. Let the first step be taken towards making them pay the compensations to the world and the remaining actions will come in the subsequent course of events.

Head & Face coverings that include all forms of Islamic head-coverings, will be banned in the public places of Switzerland. One can only hope that the Muslims living in homogenousity in the other parts of world take a leaf or two out of it and do not vitiate their social environment with distrust. This point is especially relevant for the Muslims because in todays’ world, Islam is at odds with most, if not all other religions in the world.

Now comes the main question…where does India stand in the complex issue of Afghanistan? How can India keep its objective relevant? Surely not by Military presence as they will surely be seen as occupying forces drawing jihadi ire.

It is unfortunate that United Nations, its Security Council, the various Human Rights Groups and the World Food Program has been ignoring the huge human and financial costs imposed by the Jihadists in the recent decades. Some of the non-Jihadist violence too have been the reasons of suffering in other nations. The time is come when the warring groups considered responsible for the famine, must be asked to compensate.

This article has tried to look especially into the scientific basis of 'selection and training' and brought out the intricacies involved in various sports. There are differing physical & skill levels required in different sports and the physical aspects of the athletes have been highlighted in this article. There are two different body constitutions (phenotypes) suitable for differing sprint and endurance sports for which training methodologies differ.

This article dwells at some length the specific training methods in “Track & Field” events as well as the weight-lifting where medal aspirations have been alluding us. It must be remembered that competing for World or Olympics events calls for total dedication on the part of the entire machineries incl the athletes, the coaches as well as the supporting staffs. It is for the supervisory staff to assess the level of the preparations for Tokyo 2020.

One series of explosions and dozens of questions point out one single fact…that there could be more in the events unfolding in Kabul that meets the eyes. These events are surely driving the Afghans to desperation. It could also be a double-game of Taliban-ISIS-Pakistan. The safety of the remaining Allied Forces on Afghan soil could be in great danger.

Right from the time of its inception in 2007, the QUAD as a group has been struggling to emerge as a strong security alliance. The recent AUKUS alliance formation has further cast some shadows. It is difficult to predict how will it finally take shape.

The recent Chinese forays in to the Indian territories in Uttarakhand is a matter to be worried about. It shows that Chinese expansionism mindset continues. There is no reason to disbelieve that such intrusions will continue in future too, at other places too. Hence, India has to be proactive in its approach. Some such measures of Diplomatic, Military and Economic actions are suggested in this article.

Quad as expected, has shown a resolve to keep the indo-pacific ‘Free and Open for maritime activities’ for all. They also expressed resolve on various types of cooperation within the group. There were no mentions of going for any security cooperation or expanding the Quad membership to the other stakes-holders. These were on the expected lines and there is no reason to be pessimistic. The Quad has just taken some shape with its objectives not yet formalized in the form of a document. Many rounds of consultations will have to take place before a ‘charter of objectives’ is made and signed by the respective State Heads. The possibility of limited security cooperation cannot be ruled out in future.

The UN Human Rights Council has gradually drifted away from being a true representative of the world populace to a biased body of fewer power blocks. The UNHRC representation is highly flawed with large population being ignored. A nation having 140 Cr population and another having just few thousand, cannot be justified having one vote each in the UNHRC. All religions and cultures must find representation. The power blocks within the council significantly influence their actions. Islamic nations seem to have gained undue advantages.

O World. I am Jihadi. Allah has created me for mounting Jihad on all ‘kafirs’ of the world. I aspire to fulfil our Allah’s wishes to convert the world in to Islamic Caliphate. My Muhammad has armed with Allah’s arsenals of Jihad comprising of Hate, Intolerance, Bigotry and Fascism against the Non-Muslims So it is my right to ravage humanity with my terror for which our Mohammed has bestowed with more than 150 Jihadi organisations to compel the believers of other faiths, to conquer them. O stupid world! While I conquer the world with my jihad, you feed my people for free. You dare not stop me in my endeavor.