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TRUMP’S ENVOY, NOT AMERICA’S AMBASSADOR

The Daily Guardian

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October 15, 2025

When Sergio Gor landed in New Delhi last week, the optics spoke louder than his words.

- RAKESH K. CHITKARA

TRUMP’S ENVOY, NOT AMERICA’S AMBASSADOR

Barely 38, visibly nervous, and calling himself “Trump's ambassador”, he arrived not as a diplomat but as an emissary of loyalty. India has hosted seasoned strategists, scholars, business leaders, and senior political figures from Washington. Never before has it received someone so young, so politically raw, and so personally tethered to a US. President whose worldview is defined by deal-making and disruption.

This appointment seems less about diplomacy and more about being ‘Trump's eyes and ears in a region where power is visibly shifting from West to East. His posting tells us what the new Washington wants—not nuanced partnerships, but personal control. Until recently, he was a political operative running the White House Presidential Personnel Office—the machinery that decides who gets jobs and who gets fired. The Washington Post profiled him last year as “the most powerful man you've never heard of ”—a gatekeeper whose loyalty to ‘Trump was total and whose reach extended through every department. Efficient, ambitious, and feared, he was said to blend charm with ruthlessness.

That résumé makes him a formidable political soldier— but hardly a diplomat. His career is steeped in domestic trench warfare, not global diplomacy. Reports have questioned even the basics of his public biography: born in Soviet Tashkent as Sergio Gorokhovsky, not Malta as once claimed; late to file a security clearance while vetting others; and accused by colleagues of mixing power with paranoia. In short, he is the quintessential Trump man—devoted, daring, and dangerously inexperienced in the delicate craft of international statecraft.

Yet that, precisely, may be why Trump chose him. This is not a man sent to understand India; this is a man sent to report India.

MEER VERHALEN VAN The Daily Guardian

The Daily Guardian

The Daily Guardian

The sleep plate: Dinners that help you rest better

In a world that barely pauses, a good night's sleep has become a luxury. But what many don't realize is that the secret to sound sleep often begins at the dinner table.

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2 mins

October 22, 2025

The Daily Guardian

The Daily Guardian

Indian boxing team departs for Bahrain to compete at 3rd Asian Youth Games 2025

The Boxing Federation of India (BFI) dispatched a 23-member Indian boxing contingent to Manama, Bahrain, for the 3rd Asian Youth Games 2025, scheduled from October 23 to 30. The team will represent India across 14 weight categories, seven each for boys and girls, in the U-17 age group.

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1 mins

October 22, 2025

The Daily Guardian

The Daily Guardian

Supreme Court notices Fortis over brain injury compensation plea

The Supreme Court has recently issued a notice to Fortis Hospital in a plea by a child, Devarsh Jain, seeking compensation of Rs 1350 crore as class action for an alleged brain injury at the time of his birth in 2017, The child approached the apex court through his mother against the National Consumer Dispute Redressal Commission (NCDROC), which refused orders for compensation.

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1 mins

October 22, 2025

The Daily Guardian

The Daily Guardian

Azam Khan calls row over ‘I Love Muhammad’ poster attempt to disrupt harmony

Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan on Tuesday said that the controversy over the ‘I Love Muhammad’ campaign, which triggered violence in Bareilly on September 26, was an attempt to disrupt communal harmony.

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1 min

October 22, 2025

The Daily Guardian

NITISH ATTACKS LALU FOR DOING ‘NOTHING FOR WOMEN’ IN HIS RALLY

TheJD(U) president seeks a record fifth consecutive term in office.

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2 mins

October 22, 2025

The Daily Guardian

The Daily Guardian

Building immunity in children naturally

In today’s fast-paced world, where children are constantly exposed to pollution, processed foods, and infections, a strong immune system is their best defense.

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1 mins

October 22, 2025

The Daily Guardian

India's festive sales hit Rs 6 lakh crore mark: CAIT

Sales of Rs540 lakh crorein goods and Rs 65,000 crore in services across the country marked India’s highest-ever Diwali season turnover, underscoring a historic surge in retail tradeand consumer spending during the 2025 festive season.

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1 min

October 22, 2025

The Daily Guardian

The Daily Guardian

AIR CHIEF MARSHAL SINGH VISITS LADAKH ON DIWALI, LAUDS IAF, ARMY

On the occasion of Diwali, Air Chief Marshal and Chief of the Air Staff AP Singh visited the Ladakh sector and interacted with Indian Air Force and Indian Army personnel deployed in the region on Monday.

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1 mins

October 22, 2025

The Daily Guardian

The Daily Guardian

Tejashwi questions Nitish’s ‘health’ after he garlands woman at rally

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar gave rise to fresh speculations about his mental health on Tuesday when he insisted on garlanding a female NDA candidate and ticked off a close aide who tried to stop him.

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1 min

October 22, 2025

The Daily Guardian

The Daily Guardian

No development took place in any ward during BRS governance: AIMIM

Criticising the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) for not working on development in any ward of Jubilee Hills when it was in power, All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) president Asaduddin Owaisi on Tuesday asserted that “voting should be done only on the basis of development”.

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1 min

October 22, 2025

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