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The cat is out of the bag, again. The impregnable Chinese Wall of one-sided propaganda suppressing alleged persecution, domination and torture of Uyghur Moslems in Xinjiang province appears to have been breached. The purported secret documents – known as Xinjiang Police Files - recording ruthless...

Yet another shooting snuffed out the lives of 19 children and two teachers in an elementary school classroom in Uvalde, Texas in the span of just 10 days after a similar shooting had killed 10 people in a supermarket in Buffalo, New York 14 May....

Last month, a set of over 100 retired government servants wrote a letter to the prime minister. The signatories included a former head of the Research and Analysis Wing or RAW, and a former National Security Advisor. They wrote that communal violence in India “is...

Inter-service tensions have always existed in babudom but remain low-key. The oldest fault line is the perception that the government favours the IAS more than the other all-India services, especially in terms of powers and promotions etc. In recent months though, there was a growing...

We all tend to follow habits at work and in other aspects of our lives. I generally work best in the morning and hate working after dinner. Our habits usually reflect preferences, learning, or a combination of the two – or, as Charles Duhigg notes...

A macabre political thriller recently unfolded in the Philippine province of Palawan, an island known mostly for its rich biodiversity and pristine beaches. On May 9, Joel T. Reyes, the alleged mastermind of the 2011 murder of well-known radio broadcaster Gerry Ortega, ran again for...

US President Joe Biden set the tone and tenor of the Quad summit meeting in Tokyo 24 May a day before the top leaders of the four countries of the grouping– US, Japan, Australia and India – could meet. In an apparent change of position...

The swearing in of Australia’s new Prime Minister Anthony Albanese 23 May represents a watershed moment in Australian politics. He not only becomes the first Labor PM in the past decade, but the election outcome this time around has shown how climate change and its...

The brutal attack on some visitors at Nandan Kanan zoo of Bhubaneswar 22 May 2022 is a wake-up call for the State Government that has been trying to build Orissa as a destination of great value. Much effort and money has gone in to build...

It is an old debate whether art should be used as a tool for political causes or it should reflect life as it is without any intention to overtly preach any doctrine or political message. But, the debate has gained a new currency at the...