India-Pakistan conflict: Turkey’s tourism industry is reeling under the effect of the India-Pakistan conflict, with the shares of Turkish Airlines crashing over 10% in the last one month. Turkey’s public support for Pakistan after India’s military operation against terrorist installations in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir sparked widespread cancellations from Indian travellers to the country. MakeMyTrip,…
Parallel to the recent escalation of military tensions between India and Pakistan, misinformation and disinformation surged online, making it increasingly difficult for the public to distinguish fact from fiction. Many media outlets published sensational stories riddled with unverified claims, and disseminated fake pictures and videos. Jingoism often drove the public response. Is establishing the truth…
In doing so, it shattered two myths: that strategic restraint remained India’s default posture and that Pakistan’s threshold for escalation was immutable. For decades, India absorbed Pakistan-sponsored terrorism with caution, hemmed in by the spectre of nuclear escalation. That has now been replaced by a posture of escalation dominance. Operation Sindoor marks a basic shift…
The term ‘new normal’ grew fashionable as a consequence of the covid pandemic. Looking ahead at that time, a Pew Survey showed that a plurality of experts believed that the pandemic would: 1) worsen inequality; 2) increase the influence and power of big tech firms; 3) multiply the spread of misinformation; and 4) fan the…
On May 7, India woke up to ‘Operation Sindoor’, a series of precision strikes by the armed forces at nine sites in Pakistan and Pakistan Occupied Kashmir. This was in retaliation to the terrorist attacks in Pahalgam on April 22, in which 25 Indians and one Nepali citizen, mostly tourists, were killed. This was the…
India’s benchmark Nifty 50 index surged past the key 25,000 mark on Thursday, notching its highest close in seven months amid signs of easing geopolitical tensions. The rally coincided with the weekly derivatives expiry, pushing volume turnover on the National Stock Exchange to ₹1.28 trillion—the highest since 27 March’s ₹1.5 trillion mark. Besides, potential short…
Congress MP from Thiruvananthapuram Shashi Tharoor on Thursday said, “At a time of conflict, I spoke solely as an Indian, making no pretense of representing anyone else”, amid speculations of surging rift between him and the grand old party, after his comments on the India-Pakistan conflict. Also Read | Shashi Tharoor strongly ‘defends’ BJP on…
Kerala BJP president Rajeev Chandrasekhar on Thursday, May 15, backed the calls to boycott trade and tourism with Turkey, stating that Indians are aware their hard-earned money should not benefit those who support the nation’s adversaries. Also Read: Amid calls for boycott, how much do Indians contribute to Turkey and Azerbaijan’s tourism? Explained He also…
Spy satellites may have been used in the lead-up to the terror attack in Pahalgam, reports say. But India also uses such satellites through the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) and has ramped up their deployment. How do these sky-borne spooks really work? Also Read | What the US-China trade deal means for IT services…
The argument in the axiom is simple and persuasive. Information is a powerful weapon at all times, but especially so during war. All parties in a conflict, governments in particular, seek to show themselves in a favourable light and make claims about the moral justifications for their own actions and the moral inferiority of their…
