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In the midst of conflicting reports on the Taliban’s success September 6 in getting control of the Panjshir Valley, the last bastion of resistance against Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, comes a strongly-worded message from Iran warning ‘foreign powers’ against meddling in Afghanistan affairs. Iran, which...

Bhubaneswar: The Economic Offence Wing (EOW) of the state Crime Branch arrested a former MLA of Visakhapatnam (west) in Andhra Pradesh on charges of duping investors of crores of rupees promising lucrative returns. The YSR Congress leader Malla Vijay Prasad was arrested from his residence...

The surprise announcement by Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga September 3 that he would step down and would not run in the ruling party’s leadership election September 29 makes him the first world leader to become a political casualty for his inept handling of the...

The stage is set for yet another unseemly duel between the judiciary and the executive over the appointment of judges in different high courts. For quite some time, a ping pong game is being played by the two constitutional bodies as the government at the...

A couple of decades ago, the American musician Ry Cooder visited Cuba. His intent was to revisit the island nation’s great musicians, who had been forgotten because the American embargo on their nation meant they could not perform. They included singer Ibrahim Ferrer, who was...

Gujarat has got a new Chief Secretary in 1986-batch IAS officer Pankaj Kumar, but within babu circles, there is more curiosity about Kumar’s predecessor Anil Gopishankar Mukim, who completed his extended tenure. It’s not game over yet for Mukim. The word is that Mukim is...

Kate Mackintosh & Jojo Mehta As floods, wildfires, record-high temperatures, and zoonotic disease make the climate and ecological crisis impossible to ignore, the world may be moving closer to agreeing that serious damage to our natural environment is more than just a matter for goodwill...

Edi Rama There are few more honourable pages in Albania’s history than its lonely example of heroism in the face of the destruction of European Jewry during World War II. Nobody asked our grandparents to risk, and often sacrifice, their lives to save people from...

It is a pity that when the aim of educational institutions is to create a congenial atmosphere so that truth, the spirit of inquiry and free thinking can flourish through an exposure to ideas from all quarters, a premier centre of learning in the country...

A window of opportunity seems to be opening for India to reach out to and mend its relations with the Taliban after a key member of the Taliban leadership made a carefully scripted statement August 28 that India is “very important for the subcontinent” and...