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By Dilip Cherian Forget the slogans. The story isn’t about “opening the doors” to experts so much as about how nervous the government got the minute politics sniffed trouble. Over a year after the UPSC published ads for 45 lateral-entry posts at Joint Secretary, Director...

Appeasement or tacit approval of invasion and capture of foreign land helped the rise of Adolf Hitler and the formation of the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo axis that wreaked havoc on the world before and during World War II. History appears to be repeating itself as US President...

Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh recently, at a gathering at Udaipur’s Bhupal Nobles’ University, sought to brand the ‘educated’ citizens of the country as the brains behind what he called “white-collar terrorism.” The Minister was most likely referring to the doctors involved in the Delhi...

It was a moment of geopolitical déjà vu. On the same calendar day, separated by thirty-six years, United States forces once again seized a Latin American leader and transported him to American soil to face criminal charges. In 1989–90, troops sent by then-President George HW...

By Aakar Patel One of the more interesting things to look forward to in 2026 is the rivalry between the two great powers of our age. The United States has enjoyed a full century of global dominance from the end of the World War I...

By Dilip Cherian India-Bangladesh relations today feel like they’re running on muscle memory, while politics keeps tugging at the steering wheel. For years, the relationship worked because institutions, security agencies, and seasoned diplomats on both sides quietly did the heavy lifting. Now, when tempers flare...

After a protracted, bloody conflict in which over 100 people were killed and about half a million civilians in both countries living in the border areas were displaced, Thailand and Cambodia finally agreed to hold a ceasefire December 29 and expressed a desire to rebuild...

When Tarique Rahman, the 60-year-old son of former Bangladesh Prime Minister Khaleda Zia and chief of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), ended his 17-year exile and stepped back onto Bangladeshi soil 25 December, new possibilities seemed to open up for the country which has been...

Air pollution is increasingly being recognised as India’s gravest public health crisis in the post-COVID period, with medical experts warning that the situation is likely to deteriorate with each passing year unless urgent and coordinated action is initiated. A group of senior doctors of Indian...

By Aakar Patel Intent has an ally in apathy. Intent seeks to take ground; apathy will kindly adjust. Intent is the Bharatiya Janata Party’s determination to implement its ideology. The party has the power of government and the backing of a significant number of Indians...