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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...

Ian Buruma Two days before the Normandy landings in June 1944, Charles de Gaulle demanded the right to govern France after it was liberated by the Allies. Franklin D. Roosevelt, who detested de Gaulle, had no intention of agreeing to this. Winston Churchill, who rather...

The Supreme Court dismissed a petition outright September 20 filed by a class XII student seeking direction to the Centre and states to physically reopen schools in a time-bound programme and conduct offline teaching. The refusal to entertain the plea has certainly absolved the judiciary...

Some may consider it a sad commentary on the Congress leadership that it took four years and seven months to oust Captain Amarinder Singh as Punjab Chief Minister and find his replacement. It may be a grave mistake to presume that the Captain had no...

A virtual diplomatic war has broken out between France on one hand and the AUKUS (Australia-UK-USA) combine on the other over the new alliance among the three latter countries September 16 and its fallout - a nuclear-powered submarine deal clinched between Australia and the USA....