India

April 18, 2026 — Bill Glahn

The Strait is open, the Strait is closed

Featured image We toggle back and forth every day. Today, the Strait of Hormuz is declared ‘closed.” From The Hill newspaper, Iran restores ‘strict management’ of Hormuz Strait as US blockade persists. The Twitter (X) account Visegrad 24 reports, India is furious with Iran after IRGC gunboats fired on the Indian-flagged oil tanker The Sanmar Harald today as it was passing through the Strait of Hormuz. The ship was trying to transport »
February 2, 2026 — John Hinderaker

Trade Deal With India

Featured image After a telephone conversation with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, President Trump has announced a new trade deal with India that cuts tariffs and provides that India will buy oil from the U.S. and our new ally Venezuela, rather than Russia. Reuters reports: Here’s what happened on Monday: * Trump announced the deal on social media following a call with Modi. The deal slashes U.S. tariffs on Indian goods to »
August 24, 2025 — Bill Glahn

This wheel’s on fire

Featured image From the Times of India, Sikh advocacy groups estimate there are approximately 150,000 to 200,000 Sikhs working in the trucking industry, with around 90% (135,000 to 180,000) being drivers. They constitute about 18% of the total truck drivers in the US and up to 40% are based in California. This fact was buried in the 6th paragraph of a story about that Indian-national truck driver (Harjinder Singh, billed out of »
June 5, 2025 — Scott Johnson

Quote of the day

Featured image The Chabad House of Mumbai was one of the 12 sites that Pakistani Islamist terrorists targeted between November 26 and November 29, 2008. Howard Husock recalls that Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg, his wife Rivka, and their unborn child were among the 166 victims murdered in the attack. AEI’s Howard Husock recently visited the Chabad House and reports from the scene in his Wall Street Journal column “The Jewish revival inside Mumbai.” »