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The USA, under President Joe Biden, has taken on China head on, announcing diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games beginning in less than two months from now. The symbolism of the boycott is so powerful that China has immediately threatened to take ‘counter-measures’...

The killing of 14 Indians by the Army in Nagaland has resurrected the demand for the repeal of AFSPA, the Armed Forces Special Powers Act. Two northeast chief ministers have said they want the law to go from their states. Later this month the Nagaland...

RS Sharma has a lot on his plate. As CEO of the National Health Authority (NHA) he is responsible for spearheading the country’s efforts to provide Covid-19 vaccines to the public. The emergence of the Omicron variant has only added to the challenge. India is...

Brahma Chellaney As the world’s largest, strongest, and longest-surviving dictatorship, contemporary China lacks the rule of law. Yet it is increasingly using its rubber-stamp parliament to enact domestic legislation asserting territorial claims and rights in international law. In fact, China has become quite adept at...

Djoomart Otorbaev I still have vivid memories of my first trip to Turkey in 1993. After the Soviet Union’s collapse two years previously, we Kyrgyz gained access to a world we had hitherto only imagined. We all had Turkish relatives somewhere in the West with...

The killings of 14 innocent people in Nagaland - six in the first and the rest in two other incidents in quick succession - by the armed forces 4 December have once again brought to the fore the pertinent question, whether there is any need...

Daron Acemoglu Global supply chains used to be the last thing policymakers worried about. The topic was largely the concern of academics, who studied the possible efficiency gains and potential risks associated with this aspect of globalisation. Although Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011 had...

It should be music to the BJP’s ears the way Trinamool Congress supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee denied outright the existence of the Opposition alliance – the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) – and lambasted the Congress. Pouring water on the Opposition’s efforts...

This month marks the beginning of the time two years ago when the government lost its way. The Modi government had fixed the three things it had been campaigning for strongly for decades. The law criminalising triple talaq came August 1, 2019. The Supreme Court...

As hinted earlier in this column (November 16), there is something strange about the repatriation of Union Defence Production Secretary Raj Kumar to his parent state of Gujarat. The general view is that Kumar is most likely to replace Pankaj Kumar as the state’s new...