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India has taken it as its responsibility to bring the Voice of the Global South (henceforth VoGS) to the world stage, our government declared this month. As one newspaper headline put it: “Time to Make Presence Felt, India Voice for Global South: S Jaishankar ahead...

The Modi government has recently relaxed its rules for selecting joint secretaries to encourage more IAS officers to take on central roles. The timing is telling. As of 2023, only 442 IAS officers were on board at the Centre versus the “required” 1,469 spots. That’s...

The escalating conflict between Israel and Iran has plunged the Middle East into deeper turmoil, with ramifications stretching far beyond the region. The latest round of hostilities, marked by Israel’s targeted strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites and Iran’s retaliatory ballistic missile launches, has intensified fears...

The people of South Korea have shown their maturity as votaries of democracy by recently gifting a landslide victory to presidential candidate Lee Jae-myung of the Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) who won the polls securing 49.42 per cent of the vote with a total...

For decades, current Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been warning about the “existential threat” that a nuclear-armed Iran poses to his country, asserting that military action is the only reliable means to counter it. Throughout the various terms in his long 17-year tenure as...

On 12 June, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution demanding an immediate, unconditional and lasting ceasefire in Gaza. It spoke of ending Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon of war. A total of 149 nations voted in favour, with America and Israel...

When a senior Enforcement Directorate (ED) officer gets caught in a graft case, eyebrows go up. But when insiders start whispering about deeper rot, it’s time to take notice. The ED, which handles the heavy-lifting on money laundering investigations under the PMLA, has had its...

The world is watching with bated breath the fierce showdown between the richest man on earth Elon Musk and the most powerful politician in the globe US President Donald Trump. The fallout could be cataclysmic for the global political-economic system as also for industrial-business productions...

It is unfortunate that India has finally got an invitation to attend the G7 summit in Alberta, Canada, to be held from 15 June to 17 June only out of geopolitical-economic compulsions rather than as a gesture of honour. There was suspense and uncertainty that...

More than two years after violent ethnic strife erupted in Manipur that claimed the lives of hundreds of civilians and split the state between two warring communities, peace and normalcy still remain elusive, with sporadic incidents of violence being reported every now and then. In...