https://saikirankannan.journoportfolio.comRSS Feed for Saikiran KannanenTue, 17 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.ndtv.com/author/saikiran-kannanBased on the data compiled, we can bucket the strike pattern broadly into three distinct phases: an initial 'saturation' attack, a sustained drone attrition campaign, and a sudden decline in attack intensity. Based on the data compiled, we can bucket the strike pattern broadly into three distinct phases: an initial 'saturation' attack, a sustained drone attrition campaign, and a sudden decline in attack intensity.Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.ndtv.com/author/saikiran-kannanhttps://frontline.thehindu.com/world-affairs/sri-lanka-chemmani-mass-grave-war-crimes-jaffna-tamils/article69999202.ecePublished : Sep 01, 2025 19:23 IST - 12 MINS READ The skeletal remains of a school girl unearthed recently in Chemmani have once again reopened the wounds of the past. | Photo Credit: Kumanan Kanapathippillai The excavators kept digging in the midday heat, when something soft-blue rose above the dusty earth: a child’s school bag, its nylon straps still looped around a tiny ribcage. It was June...Mon, 01 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0100https://frontline.thehindu.com/world-affairs/sri-lanka-chemmani-mass-grave-war-crimes-jaffna-tamils/article69999202.ecehttps://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-kamala-harris-got-big-social-media-boost-indian-troll-farms-1544047Joe Biden's Twitter account got a sizable boost beginning in August from tens of thousands of fake followers purchased on the open market from troll farms in rural India, an investigation has found. Within two weeks of Biden selecting Kamala Harris as his running mate on August 12, his Twitter following jumped by 738,595 new followers—a 9.1 percent leap. The number hit 11 million by the third week of October. A close examination has revealed unusual patterns. A large number of Twitter accounts...Mon, 02 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-kamala-harris-got-big-social-media-boost-indian-troll-farms-1544047https://www.indiatoday.in/author/saikiran-kannanNews AnalysisHow India is caught in narcotics web of Golden Crescent and Death Triangle Tamil Nadu and Kerala have become major destinations for smuggled drugs from Pakistan. Apart from long coastlines and existing port connectivity, another reason for this is that it is easier to transport drugs from these two coastal states to Sri Lanka and Maldives further south.GlobalExplained | Not all protests in China are linked to Covid China may be seeing protests across the country, including parts of...Thu, 26 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://www.indiatoday.in/author/saikiran-kannanhttps://www.indiatoday.in/author/saikiran-kannanThu, 26 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://www.indiatoday.in/author/saikiran-kannanhttps://thediplomat.com/2019/04/from-the-ruins-of-the-caliphate-sri-lankas-bloody-easter/Don’t let the Islamic State connection overshadow the local factors that fed into the attack. No sooner had the news of the serial bombings in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday spread than fevered attempts were made to pin the attacks to the known brands of international terrorist outfits like the Islamic State (IS) and Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS). While a handful of experts argued that the “DNA of the attacks” matched that of IS and that the scale clearly shows signs of the involvemen...Fri, 26 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0100https://thediplomat.com/2019/04/from-the-ruins-of-the-caliphate-sri-lankas-bloody-easter/