The Latest Breaking News from S Jaishankar

Once upon a time, a politician avoiding tough questions was rare. But times have changed. Why face the pesky journalist armed with facts and follow-ups when you can have a podcaster nod and giggle like their salary depends on it? 

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Kuwait, his last foreign engagement of 2024, where he collected another “highest civilian honour” from an Arab state, helped Delhi work up some cheer into an otherwise sobering year for India's engagement with the world.

India’s Ministry of External Affairs issued a terse statement last night on a report in the “Canadian media”.

Amid strained ties between India and Canada, several mainstream news outlets falsely claimed that the latter blocked news outlet Australia Today’s website and Facebook page for airing a press conference by foreign minister S Jaishankar and his Australian counterpart Penny Wong. 

Inaccessibility of The Australia Today social media channels linked to Meta policy

Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri is likely to tomorrow brief the Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs on the issues concerning India's ties with Canada as also bilateral relations with China. Read further on Dynamite News:

Australia’s foreign minister says she raised allegations with her Indian counterpart that India has targeted Sikh activists in Canada

Australia has expressed concerns about Canadian allegations the Indian government was involved in the assassination of a Sikh separatist, which it denies.

Last year, the Supreme Court notably set aside the Bombay High Court's order that had discharged a couple, Hussain Mohammed Shattaf and his wife Waheeda Hussain Shattaf, in 2006 murder case. Read Further on Dynamite News: