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French politics is thrown into turmoil after President Emmanuel Macron lost control of the National Assembly in legislative elections in which a newly formed Left-wing alliance made significant gains and the Far-right registered a record victory. The result, announced in the early hours of June 20,...

India has cried foul over China’s decision to put on hold UN listing of Lashkar-e-Taiba’s (LeT) second-in-command Abdul Rehman Makki. India and the US, June 1, jointly proposed to list Makki, the brother-in-law of Lashkar-e-Taiba head and 26/11 mastermind Hafiz Saeed, under the UN Security...

The UK government has done a disservice to the cause of free speech and democracy by approving the extradition of the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States. UK home secretary Priti Patel dealt a blow to the decade-long efforts Assange has been making...

On the Agniveer issue, the government has again acted first and contemplated the consequences later. What was meant to be an experiment and affecting only a small portion of the recruitment suddenly replaced the existing process entirely. The tweaking of the scheme on the fly,...

The “heaven-born” often catch a lot of flak, usually when they are seen as misusing their privileges or as pliant tools of their political masters. But many IAS officers get appreciated for silently going about their work, often below the radar. Certainly, it’s not often...

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,...