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US & Drug Cartels

US President Donald Trump has made drug trafficked into his country a major reason for his policy of forcing illegal migrants out of the USA, sealing the borders, raiding neighbouring countries to flush out drug cartels and bombing boats with impunity in the Caribbean Sea....

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Oil Trade Flames

Making a mockery of rule-based international order for one more time, US President Donald Trump, with the help of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has triggered a counter-revolution in Iran to replace the revolution of 1979 brought about by the clerics led by Ayatollah Ruhollah...

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Iran Crisis

With the announcement that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been killed in joint American and Israeli airstrikes, the 86-year-old Iranian supreme leader’s reign has come to a violent close, cementing what many observers call a “lost half-century” for the Iranian nation. For decades, Khamenei governed with...

Aakar Patel

Demographic Delusion

There are things that this nation is agitated about and there is real news. One of the things we are agitated about, in our media particularly, and in WhatsApp groups, is demographic change and love jihad and the rest of it. Data does not support...

Power of Continuity

Defamation Duel

In the latest episode, the Karnataka High Court has declined to quash the defamation proceedings filed by IPS officer D. Roopa Moudgil against IAS officer Rohini Sindhuri. This feud, which began as an unfiltered exchange of accusations and social media posts in 2023, has now...

Putin

War of Attrition

President Vladimir Putin of Russia believed he could finish off, within months, the conflict that he started on European soil against Ukraine. This war could be labelled the biggest since World War II. But four years to this day, he still has not secured the...

AI Impact Summit

How Prepared

In the just concluded AI Summit at New Delhi, the government of India has majorly played up the issue of this country being “prepared” for Artificial Intelligence. The claim was reinforced weeks earlier in the Union Budget for the financial year 2026-27, which rolled out...

Donald Trump

Trump Torpedoed

Once bitten, twice shy is an old idiom. But when it comes to US President Donald Trump, it loses its meaning as he refuses to learn any lessons from the past. Trump, in his tariff war, has thrown caution to the wind, undermining old diplomatic...

Engineered Exclusion

By Aakar Patel The Bharatiya Janata Party has been governing Gujarat for about 30 unbroken years now. Notionally Gujarat is a two-party state, but the Congress has not won an election, either Vidhan Sabha or Lok Sabha, since before the Babri mosque was pulled down....

Art of Delay

By Dilip Cherian It’s telling that Punjab is still kicking the can down the road on appointing a regular Director General of Police, even after the Supreme Court flagged the “acting DGP” culture as a serious institutional flaw. For over three years now, Gaurav Yadav,...

 

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