Babu Namboothiri

But to understand how we got there, and why it still matters in 2025, rewind a little. To a quiet garrison town called Abbottabad, where Osama bin Laden once lounged in his compound, sipping chai not far from Pakistan’s elite military academy. That scene wasn’t fiction — it was a living embodiment of the double game Forsyth wrote about.

Earlier, the national security adviser used to report to Pakistan's PM; now, while working under constitutional cover of Sharif’s office, Malik will report to Pakistan army chief Munir

The Gujarat High Court upheld the dismissal of nine railway police constables who were assigned to patrol the Sabarmati Express on February 27, 2002. They returned to Ahmedabad early on another train, and later that day, the Sabarmati Express was torched near Godhra, killing 59. The court dismissed their reinstatement pleas, citing dereliction of duty and false entries in records.

Meenal Ahmed Khan, a Pakistani national, was reunited with her CRPF trooper husband in Jammu after the J&K high court intervened to prevent her deportation. She entered India on a tourist visa and applied for a long-term visa as an Indian citizen's wife.

India has a massive advantage over Pakistan in a conventional war. But when it comes to nukes, there is very little that separates the two

Google CEO Sundar Pichai confirmed under oath that Gemini, Google's AI chatbot, is expected to be integrated into Siri by mid-2025. Discussions with Apple CEO Tim Cook included Gemini app distribution, with Cook indicating more third-party AI models would be incorporated into Apple Intelligence later this year.

China is considering US proposals for trade talks. This follows economic strain from US tariffs. Factory activity and exports in China have declined. Beijing signals openness to dialogue. However, it warns against coercion. Markets react positively to the news. There is hope for a thaw in the US-China trade standoff. The future of negotiations remains uncertain.