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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and the West’s unprecedented response, represent a watershed in international relations, marking the formal end of the post-Cold War era and setting the stage for seismic geopolitical and geo-economic shifts. But one defining feature of international relations will remain: to paraphrase...

‘Poetic lie’ is a literary technique employed by poets and playwrights to fathom truths with the help of exaggeration that strains credulity. The intent is not to replace truth with lies, but to make a deeper impression in the mind. Had they merely stated plain...

China’s Vice Foreign Minister Le Yucheng equated Indo-Pacific groupings such as Quad and AUKUS with the NATO at a programme in Beijing. This comes only a day after a two-hour-long video session between US President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping late last...

The World Happiness Report 2022 has just got published. India ranks 136th in this list indicating it is among the unhappiest countries of the world, a few notches ahead of Afghanistan which is at the bottom of the report released by the UN. Totally, 146...

Russia has claimed, without evidence, that the United States is operating biowarfare laboratories in Ukraine. The US has dismissed the allegations as “preposterous,” and – along with NATO leaders – warned that the Kremlin might be seeking to manufacture a pretext for using chemical or...

It is unfortunate that a crucial and highly sensitive issue such as the restoration of Iran’s tattered nuclear deal with world powers has become a casualty of the ongoing confrontation between the USA and the European Union on the one hand and Russia on the...

The suspension of McDonald’s operations in Russia, along with Starbucks, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Chase and Uniqio is the latest of a string of multinational companies withdrawing their business from Russia for its invasion of Ukraine. These companies join the sanctions imposed by the US and...

The people of Punjab have scripted a new chapter in the history of electoral politics in India by overwhelmingly voting to power the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in the recent polls and throwing by the wayside political parties like the BJP, Congress and the Shiromani...

Election victories sanctify the actions of a political party; they do not validate them. Sanctification is the giving of a blessing and has nothing to do with the real world. Validation is based on facts. At this point in time, now that the results are...

Whistleblower Haryana IAS officer Ashok Khemka, who has the dubious distinction of being one of the most transferred babus in the country (54 times), has been promoted to the apex scale of chief secretary after 30 years of service. This is remarkable considering that he...