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María Fernanda Espinosa & Danilo Türk Great power competition, the troubling rise of xenophobic nationalism, existential environmental threats and the ongoing Covid-19 onslaught present major global governance challenges. Against this backdrop, world leaders have tasked United Nations Secretary General António Guterres with recommending steps to...

James K. Galbraith In a recent essay on Samantha Power, President Joe Biden’s new administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, Michelle Goldberg of The New York Times writes – correctly – that Power’s “first big test ... lies in what America does...

The government, it appears, is continuing to take a cavalier approach to the colossal pain and loss the Covid-19 pandemic has wreaked on the country. Instead of making good for its inept handling since the outbreak early last year, it is still propagating unscientific and...

The Central government’s decision to invite 14 key leaders of Jammu and Kashmir to a meeting with the Prime Minister June 24, over 22 months after the abrogation of Article 370 and bifurcation of the former state is a reflection of the government’s desperation to...

It is said, since time immemorial, that once you tell a lie, it will invariably come back to you. You then have to take the immense trouble to remember what it was exactly that you had said at a certain point of time in your...

It is not easy to find good news in India and has not been easy for a long time now. A report said that the Indian economy is contracting again in this quarter, between April and June, by more than double digits. This report from...

The Air India divestment has got stuck between a rock and a hard landing! The second wave of the Covid pandemic has now delayed it further. It is beginning to seem that the government may have been a trifle too ambitious and optimistic about closing...

Zachary Karabell Recently, the US podcaster-provocateur Joe Rogan made headlines by saying that, given America’s current cultural trajectory, straight white men will eventually no longer be “allowed to go outside.” On the other hand, the University of North Carolina denied tenure to Nikole Hannah-Jones, the...

Alexander De Croo Both the COVID-19 pandemic and global warming are about survival, and are health crises at their core. But typology is not their only common feature. We can also overcome them in a similar way – by working with, rather than against, our...

After the Supreme Court iterated in its ruling June 3 that sedition charges can’t be slapped on citizens to muzzle free speech that is not intended to incite violence or disrupt public order, it was expected the Centre would exercise utmost caution in applying the...