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@NayanimaBasu The irony of this. Trump may not remember that the FBI in the United States had been given advance warning about the December 1941 Pearl Harbour attack by Japan in mid-1941 by a UK-Yugoslav double agent. cia.gov/resources/csi/…

This is just horrible… PM Takaichi should have walked out immediately, galling that she kept sitting there.

@JawedAshraf5 @EmmanuelMacron @thierry_mathou Congratulations, Jawed! Well deserved recognition of your exceptional professional skills.

Deeply grateful for all the posts and messages of felicitation on the conferral of the 🇫🇷 Commander of the Legion of Honour last evening. Thank HE President @EmmanuelMacron for this rare honour and Ambassador @thierry_mathou for the beautiful ceremony. Particularly special to receive it after JRD Tata, Ratan Tata, Prof Amartya Sen, Pt Ravi Shankar, Satyajit Ray, Manna Dey, and painter SH Raza. Reflects the importance and value 🇫🇷 attaches to relations with 🇮🇳 & the great progress in the strategic partnership under the leadership of PM @narendramodi and President Macron.

No word of condemnation of continuing US/ Israeli aggression against Iran. If Iran’s actions to block the Strait of Hormuz are illegal, so is the US/ Israeli war on Iran. Iran’s Homuz action follows the US/ Israeli aggression, not precedes it. If blocking the Strait is causing pain to the developing countries, so is the spike in oil prices resulting from this US/ Israeli aggression. No word about the Israeli attack on South Pars which has provoked Iran to attack oil/ gas facilities in Qatar and other Gulf countries. The reference in this joint statement of the signatory countries making preparations to act appropriately in the Hornuz Strait is a veiled threat of intervention which can worsen matters. Pressure on Iran not to attack its neighbours is understandable but not strongly asking Israel and the US to end their attacks on Iran is not taking a balanced position.

@JanKEliasson @OunkaOnX @LoanSundman And the United States oil companies.

@OunkaOnX @LoanSundman The winners of the death and destruction in this war are Israel and Russia. Hopefully only in the short run.

Qatar's PM: "This war needs to stop immediately. Everyone knows who the main beneficiary of this war is." Qatar's PM told the world, this war serves someone's interests. And that someone is not in Tehran, Washington, or Doha — it's in Tel Aviv.

@KanwalSibal Unaware of ground realities and SOPs of India.

Not clear what is meant by keeping us “ in the loop”? That the US should have sought our consent and we should have given it for a known US mercenary along with Ukranian mercenaries to illegally enter our border areas with Myanmar, cross into Myanmar to train insurgents there knowing their links with elements on our side that are of the same ethnic group?

@KanwalSibal He has hesitated to initiate any proactive diplomacy to prevent conflicts despite his mandate under Art 99 of the Charter. His successor must be diametrically opposite him.

Very inadequate remarks. His term is ending. He should show more spine and redeem himself. He uses the word “ condemnation” for Iranian attacks on its neighbours. He wants Iran to stop these attacks. But he neither condemns US and Israel for committing aggression against Iran in violation of the UN Charter which he as SG must uphold, nor does he ask both countries to stop attacking Iran.

I don’t get it. If Hezbollah had flats in this block (unlikely in central Beirut but not impossible) why did the Israelis give everyone inside an hour to get out — including those they wanted to kill? And if there weren’t any Hezbollah people there, why destroy a building with dozens of civilians in it?

@sidhant Is there a similar Press Release by the embassy of the United States given the media report on a U.S. national being part of this group?

Just in: On the arrest of Ukraine nationals, the Ukraine embassy says the case is "possible orchestrated & politically motivated"

@nitingokhale Vikram Doraiswami served in Beijing for four years from 1996 to 2000.

Vikram K. Doraiswami, currently High Commissioner of India to the United Kingdom, appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the People's Republic of China, an official announcement said today. Doraiswami, who took Mandarin language training in Beijing in his early career, never got posted to China thereafter, if memory serves me right. Now, he heads there in what is arguably a crucial phase of India-China relationship. P. Kumaran, currently Secy (East) will likely succeed him in London. Other important postings also likely in the neighbourhood soon

Proud moment for Punjabi literature! 2025 Sahitya Akademi Award winners include story writer Harjinder, former Indian Ambassador Navtej Sarna, and Jammu’s Pritpal Betab. On the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre, @NavtejSarna told me: “My intention was to explore how ordinary lives change unexpectedly by such events—horror doesn’t end but throbs in destinies.” Powerful reflection on history’s scars. 📚 #SahityaAkademi #JallianwalaBagh bbc.com/punjabi/articl…

Figure This: Indian diaspora in GCC: 10 Million (1 Crore) with jobs at Risk Remittances from GCC: 40% of India’s total $51–52 billion Energy needs from GCC: 40–50% of India’s crude oil & Gas imports Cumulative FDI from GCC to India: ~$28.28 billion This all will be hit as GCC economies go down, all thanks to Benjamin Netanyahu (Israel) & Donald Trump (USA) for attacking Iran using GCC bases & airspace in disastrous war. Will USA or Israel compensate for this to India !? I have not even taken the impact of inflation, fuel & gas issues, market meltdown etc

German international law scholars state that US-Israeli attacks on Iran are illegal and the German government by allowing the use of military bases is at risk of violating not only international law but also their own constitution! Full statement here: verfassungsblog.de/stellungnahme-…

The Ukranian Foreign Ministry has upped the diplomatic ante by taking an aggressive public position on the issue instead of dealing with it more discreetly. Asking the arrested Ukrainians to be released forthwith is being presumptuous. This suggests that they have stakes in covering up the matter, which means they want to prevent a thorough investigation that could prove embarrassing for the Ukranian regime.

@livefist Europeans have imposed sanctions on Indian companies for the Ukraine war. There should be a guarantee that no European sanctions will be imposed on India for this project.

BREAKING ⚠️ India will join either the Tempest or FCAS 6th generation fighter programs, Indian MoD tells Parliamentary Standing Committee on Defence

NEW: Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly focused on blocking Trump’s pathways to a ceasefire and follow-up talks with Iran by killing members of leadership most likely to negotiate according to European Council on Foreign Relations director.

@carlbildt Carl, Remember: Wars , except in self defense or authorized by @UNSecCo, are violations of UN Charter Art 2:4. I guess we agree that such wars- apart from being illegal- regularly are hopeless lose/lose propositions and tickets to misery for millions of innocent bystanders.

@DalrympleWill But he can embody a Yeatsian vision of "slouching" in "The Second Coming".

He can't even spell

@Chellaney An additional dimension is that unlike the past when China was the main source of IIGs operating in India's north east, now we have Western actors active in this region.

A Security Fiasco in India’s Northeast: The arrest of six Ukrainian nationals — all war veterans — and one American citizen with combat experience in the Syria and Libya conflicts by India’s National Investigation Agency (NIA) for providing military equipment and training to Chin rebels and other militants in Myanmar with ties to Indian insurgent groups casts an unflattering light on the security apparatus in India’s vulnerable northeast. ■ According to court filings, the seven accused mercenaries entered India on tourist visas and traveled undetected to the sensitive border state of Mizoram without obtaining the mandatory Restricted Area Permits (RAP). They then illegally crossed the unfenced international border into Myanmar’s Chin State. ■ The court filings state that, while in Myanmar, they provided training to Chin insurgents and other ethnic rebels with documented links to Indian militant organizations such as ULFA(I), NSCN and the Kuki National Army operating in the northeast. This training included: →Drone operations and assembly →Jamming technology and weapons handling →Supplying a “huge consignment” of drones sourced from Europe ■ The seven men subsequently re-entered India through the Mizoram-Myanmar border — again without detection by border or local police forces — before traveling deep into the Indian mainland. ■ They were eventually tracked by federal agencies and arrested on March 13 at transit hubs far from the Myanmar border while in the process of leaving India: →The American was detained at Kolkata airport →Three Ukrainians were arrested at Delhi airport →Three Ukrainians were arrested at Lucknow airport The NIA has charged them under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), including Section 18 (terrorist conspiracy). The introduction of European-sourced drone technology and jamming expertise into this theater represents a significant “force multiplier” for insurgent groups. The investigation further indicates that the seven men were part of a broader conspiracy to transport sophisticated drones and other Western weapons into Myanmar via India, effectively establishing a “tactical corridor” through India’s northeastern borders. The scale of the security lapse is difficult to overstate. That these individuals were able to enter India, reach its northeast with military equipment, cross into Myanmar, and then return through the same route without detection points to a serious intelligence and border management failure. Their successful movement of a large consignment of drones and related supplies through Mizoram suggests that external provisioning of arms to Indian insurgent groups may be occurring more frequently — and more invisibly — than officially acknowledged. Taken together, these developments suggest that India’s northeast risks becoming a permissive operating environment for foreign actors fueling the Myanmar conflict, with spillover effects increasingly visible in Indian border states such as Manipur, Mizoram and Nagaland.

‘I met Ali Larijani. He would have made a deal to survive.’ Not me — it’s, yes, the Daily Telegraph. telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…

@anand_arni No, you are not in a minority.

Am I in a minority to be repulsed with these targeted assassinations of a nation's leadership? Do civilised nations need to behave in such fashion?