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Buoyed by her thumping win in the Bhabanipur byelection, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is now mulling on introducing lateral entry into the state government a la the Central government. Sources say that the state government is hoping to get domain specialists in senior...

Gordon Brown & Allan Goodman The ongoing flood of refugees from Afghanistan – now some 2.6 million strong – is sadly no isolated tragedy. Indeed, if all of today’s 82.4 million refugees and forcibly displaced persons were gathered into a single state it would be...

Daron Acemoglu With the price of Bitcoin reaching new highs, and El Salvador and Cuba deciding to accept it as legal tender, cryptocurrencies are here to stay. What implications will this have for money and politics? Money depends on trust. It is accepted in exchange...

The Uttar Pradesh (UP) police claims to be too busy to arrest the son of a Union Minister of State alleged to have run over two protesting farmers. The brutal killings of farmers at Lakhimpur Kheri, Uttar Pradesh, October 3 under the wheels of the...

It is a sad commentary on the country’s drug investigating agencies that there is so much noise about the arrest of movie star Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan and seven others following a raid and seizure of a few grams of drugs during a rave...

In an unfortunate decision, the UK government has decided to treat Indians entering that country, after being vaccinated with Covishield, as unvaccinated. There comes another much welcome news from Lisboa (Lisbon) that Portugal is the first country in the world where vaccination campaign is almost...

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...