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India has launched part two of the Swachh Bharat Mission and the Prime Minister says that its aim is to make India’s cities garbage-free. While announcing the programme, he was quoted as saying: “The garbage mountains in cities will be processed and removed completely as...

In a first, the Kerala government has named Venu Rajamony, a former Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer, as its point man to deal with the Malayali diaspora, especially in the Gulf States. Unlike many other states, Kerala has a large diaspora spread across the world....

Jules Kortenhorst World leaders are making increasingly ambitious commitments to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions and limit the catastrophic effects of climate change. But to convert commitments into results, more must be done to decarbonise all sectors of the global economy rapidly. This process will be relatively...

Jan-Werner Mueller First, the bad news. In Germany’s federal election, the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) suffered losses, but still polled in excess of 10 per cent. Despite constant infighting and numerous scandals, the party seems set to be a lasting feature on the German...

The positive decision of Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel not to seek another term signals the end of an era. The fractured mandate Germans gave Sunday, 26 September to find her replacement shows an uncertain future and an unpredictable politics that lie in store for the...

The recent cancellation and revisiting of Chinese contracts by a few African countries - Ghana, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Kenya – are being interpreted as a setback to China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). This is being read by international observers as...

US President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris performed a subtle and clever balancing act when they reminded visiting Prime Minister Narendra Modi during their separate meetings in Washington September 23-24 of the need for upholding the values of democracy and the ‘common bond’...

India follows the system of common law, introduced to it by Great Britain. However, it has introduced innovation in its law as an independent nation, and one of these is to reverse the burden of proof. In several criminal laws in India, and especially those...

Government watchers are keenly watching the ongoing crosstalk between the Supreme Court and the Central government over the latter’s delay in filling the vacancies in the National Company Law Tribunals (NCLT) and the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT). The vacancies have slowed down the...

Angel Gurría COVID-19 has sharpened the focus on many challenges with which the world has long been grappling, including rising inequality, insufficient access to adequate healthcare and education, and climate change. Long before the pandemic, people had begun to ask hard questions about globalisation and...