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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...

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...