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Europe is caught between the devil and the deep sea. Russian President Vladimir Putin has turned out to be the devil. The prospect of a severe economic dislocation, a freezing winter a few months away and weakening of Europe’s fight against climate change because of...

The dictionary defines a police State as “a political unit characterised by repressive governmental control of political, economic, and social life usually by an arbitrary exercise of power by police and especially secret police in place of regular operation of administrative and judicial organs of...

Absolutely no changes, a rarity in this top team, is not surprising. This Government has a track record of preferring the tried and tested in crucial spots, which certainly, these ones are. President Droupadi Murmu has inherited four senior officers of the Rashtrapati Bhavan from...

On May 24, 2021, three Cameroonian asylum seekers left the north of Cyprus in an attempt to reach the south. They were denied protection, triggering widespread international condemnation, and were stranded in no man’s land for nearly seven months after the Cypriot authorities refused to...

Environmental tariffs may be humanity’s last hope for mitigating climate change, which is on course to become increasingly devastating if we do not curb our greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The most straightforward way to confront this unprecedented global threat is through a multilateral agreement that...

The rejection by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) of the Myanmar military junta’s objections to a case of alleged state-sponsored killing, rape and forcible eviction of the country’s Rohingya Moslems in Rakhine state is one step forward to make the junta accountable for brutal...

Clouds of Fascism and Right-wing autocratic rule are once again hovering over most of Europe as is evident following the collapse of the Mario Draghi government in Italy. Only recently France narrowly escaped such a prospect when the Right wing party leader Marine Le Pen...

In a win for democracy, mass protests in Sri Lanka recently led to the resignation of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa. A strongman who won popularity for overseeing the end of Sri Lanka’s civil war in 2009 (while his older brother, Mahinda,...

It has been about five years since the Electoral Bonds scheme was challenged in the Supreme Court, which has not decided on it. The scheme was introduced as a ‘money bill’ in the Budget of 2017 so that it could not be debated and voted...

Himachal Pradesh, which is going to the polls shortly, has got a new chief secretary. Ram Dass Dhiman, a 1988-batch IAS officer, got the coveted post after the incumbent Ram Subhag Singh surprised many by quitting and applying for another sought-after post of state Chief...