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  The big question being asked 24 hours after US President Donald Trump announced a five-day pause on the ongoing US-Israel war on 23 March is whether any talks were held at all, as claimed by Trump, between the US and Iran to end the...

In a major development on 23 March, US President Donald Trump said in a Truth Social post 23 days after the US-Israel war against Iran that he has instructed the defence department to postpone all airstrikes against Iranian power plants and energy infrastructure for a...

The world is reeling under an unprecedented fuel and gas crisis. The prevailing situation is creating panic in domestic kitchens, restaurants, hostels, petrol bunks, gas stations and threatening to cripple the world economy, while worse is yet to come. All this because of a thoughtless,...

I want Iran to win. What does win mean? Iran defines it in the following way: The United States of America must lift its decades-old sanctions on Iran; it must dismantle its military bases in the Arab states; Israel must end its occupation of Lebanon;...

Now and then, public policy produces a decision so baffling that you instinctively read the news twice. The rollback of India’s revised earthquake zoning framework, within just three months, is one such decision. At the centre of this policy tremor is Housing and Urban Affairs...

Protests by thousands of pro-democracy activists in Leh and Kargil districts on 16 March, demanding, among other things, statehood for Ladakh and the Sixth Schedule status soon after the release of the face of the movement – Sonam Wangchuk – show people’s legitimate aspirations cannot...

The ongoing war between the US-Israel combine and Iran has unexpectedly turned out to be a windfall for Russia. In just about a fortnight after the war began, oil and gas prices have become volatile, and the lone beneficiary from this global crisis and uncertainty...

The widening conflict in West Asia is beginning to cast a shadow over India’s economic outlook. The country’s heavy dependence on imported energy and the structural woes plaguing its long-neglected economy, due to which there is persistently high inflation, unemployment, ever-widening inequality and a depreciating...

On 4 November 2013, then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh spoke to over 120 heads of Indian missions and outlined the five principles that defined his foreign policy. These were: first, recognition that India’s relations with the world—the major powers and Asian neighbours—were shaped by its...

In Rajasthan, accountability has recently discovered a rather dramatic sense of urgency. A ten-minute technical glitch at Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s rally in Banswara, when the screen briefly went blank, was apparently serious enough to cost senior IAS officer Archana Singh her post as Secretary,...