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The news that Sri Lanka’s former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who fled the country after mass protests and resigned soon after, is expected to return home has baffled many. Cabinet minister Bandula Gunawardana has given a broad hint telling the media, “To my knowledge, he is...

This round seems to have gone in favor of Nitish Kumar in Bihar. The Kurmi leader is known for his ability to change sides as and when winds of impending change blows across the Northern Indian plains. His political outfit, the Janata Dal United (JDU)...

The good news for countries facing food shortages and starvation, especially in Africa, Middle East and Asia, is that shipment of wheat from Ukraine has started after UN and Turkey brokered a deal between Russia and Ukraine. The first such ship to sail out of...

The US provocation of China in the form of its House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan and the immediate sabre-rattling in response by China dangerously close to Taiwan is a highly nerve wracking international drama, especially because Pelosi flew into the island nation in...

Parliament was told this month that the Indian Space Research Organisation will conduct its first abort demonstration test on India’s ambitious astronaut mission before December 31 this year. It is hoped that India’s first uncrewed mission will launch by the end of 2023, as part...

Jet-setting babus splurging taxpayers’ money on conferences in exotic foreign locales is not a secret. True, the guidelines of the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) clearly state that participation of officials in international fairs/exhibitions/workshops and conferences should be discouraged, and if considered essential, only...

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and the Opposition are busy trading charges against each other and scoring political brownie points in Parliament over the soaring prices and rising inflation. But, a six-year-old girl from Uttar Pradesh has spoken the unvarnished truth. She has proven that...

It is a pity that Tunisia, the cradle of the Arab Spring movement that led to the fall of autocratic rule, violence and beginning of democracy across much of the Arab world about a decade back, is now back to virtual dictatorship by its President...

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...