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The global food system is broken. Although it produces more than enough calories to feed everyone, up to 811 million people – more than 10% of the world’s population – go to bed hungry each night. Sadly, effective governance to ensure access to food for...

The arrest in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) of the two brothers – Atul and Rajesh - belonging to the wealthy Gupta family, has sparked jubilation in the entire South Africa as the family has earned notoriety for virtually holding the state captive for about...

Whoever wins in the war between Ukraine and Russia, it will be worse than a pyrrhic victory. The gains will be at such a cost that not only the two warring countries, but the whole world will have to pay a heavy price for it....

China is building infrastructure along the border with India – a second bridge in an area held by it around the strategically key Pangong Tso lake in eastern Ladakh which it occupied in 2020 during the pandemic. The Indian Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) has,...

Sovereign nations are those with absolute power over themselves. They cannot be compelled to do what they do not want to do. In international relations a Great Power is one with influence far outside its borders. Not only can such a power resist external influence,...

Public or private sector? Where is the grass greener? In these enlightened times, apparently on both sides. Sources have informed DKB that the Centre is actively considering hiring a private sector executive for the top post at the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC). The...

In an interesting recent article in the Times Literary Supplement, the Ukrainian novelist, essayist, and poet Oksana Zabuzhko took Western readers to task for not recognising Russia’s barbarism. Too many people, Zabuzhko argued, believe that the great Russian writers, such as Fyodor Dostoevsky, expressed humanistic...

It is disconcerting, indeed, the way Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has fuelled the ambitions of autocratic rulers who seem to be too tempted to take a leaf out of the book of an autocrat like President Vladimir Putin. It is an open secret how China’s...

When war combines with a pandemic, it is, indeed, a recipe for disaster. Almost every country is having a taste of it, but Singapore is paying the worst price as its staple diet – chicken-rice – is faced with the threat of disappearing from the...

It is incredible to hear that the Emirate of Qatar has demanded a public apology from the Government of India. The Indian ambassador to Qatar, Deepak Mittal, had been summoned to the foreign office where he was reportedly given a note in which Qatar had...