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Israel’s longest-serving Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, mired in controversies ranging from financial fraud to communal polarisation for his own political survival, has been ousted from office June 13 by a loose coalition of rivals from across the political spectrum. The lowest common denominator of the...

The plan of the G-7 countries, currently holding a summit in the UK, to donate one billion COVID-19 vaccine doses to poorer countries has been rightly mocked at by former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown as ‘passing around the begging bowl.’ Various human welfare groups...

Aakar Patel We have entered the third year of this government and in the months to come the discussion will turn to the election of 2024. Some of the recent political activity around Uttar Pradesh is being seen in this light. In India what the...

The instances of bureaucrats getting caught in the middle of political battles is a growing and dynamic list. Those in the know say that after the Centre recently amended the empanelment policy for IAS officers, young officers fear that their careers will be jeopardized if...

Dani Rodrik On June 5, the world’s leading economies announced an agreement that will bolster their ability to raise taxes on global corporations. The agreement still needs formal approval from a wider set of countries, and there remain many details to be worked out for...

When Britain’s largest bakery, Greggs brought, a vegan sausage roll into the market, it was attacked by a senior reporter as ‘Stalinist’, and the idea of having a vegan roll as ‘nauseating’. In India we never have this problem, because almost everyone at the top...

India, like the rest of the world, is in the grip of a once in a century pandemic snuffing out tens of thousands of lives, inflicting excruciating pain and trauma on millions and ruining countless families. It has been passing through a colossal tragedy with...

As US President Joe Biden reinvigorates his tariff war with India and gets ready for his European trip later this week, the message that is emanating from Washington is that the President wants to reposition his country in the world stage after having busied himself...

When the head of India’s coronavirus taskforce, Dr VK Paul, said June 5 that the country has overtaken the United States in terms of the number of people who have received their first shot of a Covid-19 vaccine, he was rather too economical on truth....

The National Democratic Alliance government marked its seventh anniversary at the end of last month. Celebrations were muted because of the sickness and death that the pandemic has brought to us. But the prime minister did put out a document on the achievements of the...