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The NDTV anchor Ravish Kumar rightly says that the Indian media does not focus on important things. For this reason, it is vital that we keep emphasising these things and that we write and read about them. In a few weeks, we will enter the...

The Budget is done and dusted, and the tough part starts now, which is implementing the proposals. One space where heavy lifting needs to be done is the disinvestment sector. The process needs to pick up pace, as Department of Investment and Public Asset Management...

Brahma Chellaney Much of the democratic world would like the United States to remain the preeminent global power. But with the US apparently committed to strategic overreach, that outcome risks becoming unlikely. The problem with America’s global leadership begins at home. Hyper-partisan politics and profound...

Tobias Bunde There was little cause for geopolitical optimism in 2021, and this grim trend has continued at the start of 2022. Almost every month over the last couple of years, a fresh emergency has dominated the news, contributing to a sense of a mounting...

It is Imran Khan, Pakistan’s iconic pace bowler, who made ‘reverse swing’ a special weapon in his armoury to fox batsmen and bowl the opposition out thereby winning matches. But, now as prime minister of his country he is facing a different kind of ‘reverse...

It is an irony that when Sri Lanka’s foreign minister GL Peiris spoke highly of improved Sri Lanka-India relations, Sri Lankan Tamil MP CV Wigneswaran asked India, hours before Peiris’ arrival in Delhi last week, to be wary of the understanding between Sri Lanka and...

The battle of ballots for the most crucial state in Indian politics – Uttar Pradesh – has begun just as four other states, Punjab, Goa, Manipur and Uttarakhand, are getting ready for polls in the next few days. That the outcome in UP will have...

Yet another issue of fundamental rights of individuals versus the rights of the State has reached the Supreme Court. As is almost routine in our time, it concerns minorities. At issue is whether Article 25 allows the government some room to prohibit the wearing of...

Former Oil Secretary Tarun Kapoor’s appointment as chairman of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board (PNGRB) has been noted with considerable interest by industry watchers. If a regulator comes from many years in the industry, he has a vested interest in this and that...

Ruben Maximiano Not every sitting US president invites comparisons with a Roosevelt, let alone two members of that storied family. Since taking office just over a year ago, Joe Biden has frequently been likened to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who introduced the New Deal in...