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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...

Russia’s war in Ukraine may not be going as it had planned, but the worst is still to come. And while Western financial sanctions against Russian institutions and oligarchs have exceeded what some were expecting, they have not targeted the Western-based roots of Russian President...

Susan Dynarski & Rachel Glennerster Determining how to balance COVID-19 risks in schools around the world has been tricky. While US school leaders are currently debating whether students should be required to wear face masks, schools in Uganda recently reopened for the first time since...

International Women’s Day (IWD) was observed this year in an atmosphere that does not hold out much hope of a life of dignity for millions of women across the world. Indian women are living in the backdrop of rising crime, with cases such as in...

The hurriedly called Quad meeting late last week has expressed concern over the possibility of a déjà vu of the Russian type invasion of Ukraine in the Indo-Pacific region too. This is not simply an attempt by the four-nation group comprising the USA, Japan, Australia...

Josep Borrell Some weeks can feel like decades, and this week has been one of them. With Russia’s naked act of aggression against Ukraine, the tragedy of war has erupted in Europe once again. Russian forces have shelled residential housing, schools, hospitals, and other civilian...