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Finally, US President Joe Biden could meet the new Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett one-on-one for 50 minutes and then with their respective aides August 28. The meeting scheduled earlier was on the point of being shelved following the killings of scores of Afghans and...

Is India in a military and strategic alliance with the United States or is it not? In January this year, the United States declassified a 2018 document which says its national security challenge is ‘to maintain US strategic primacy… while preventing China from establishing new,...

The new Director of the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration in Mussoorie, Katikithala Srinivas has a new and rather important task. In a first, non-IAS officers will receive mid-career training along with IAS officers in October this year, under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s...

Manos Antoninis In the small northern Croatian town of Orehovica, preschoolers get together twice a week to play and learn. The classes, which include children of Roma background, are full of energy. Activities adapted to everyone’s needs have created a sense of belonging for every...

Gloria Abraham Peralta This year, governments can ensure that better international rules help get us back on track toward a fairer and more sustainable agricultural trading system, and overcome recent setbacks in our efforts to tackle hunger and malnutrition. The United Nations Food Systems Summit...

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s remark that the Taliban are terrorists and that he would discuss with his G-7 partners in a meeting August 24 the possibility of imposing tougher sanctions on Afghanistan may sound to be an extreme reaction to the humanitarian crisis overtaking...

The sweeping and lightning control of Afghanistan established by the Taliban during the past few days has injected a new significance into the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the takeover of Tibet by China through the invasion by the People’s Liberation Army. China, which...

The Gujarat High Court’s interim order staying certain sections of the controversial Gujarat Freedom of Religion (Amendment) Act, 2021, dubbed the ‘love jihad law’, is expected to calm passions being worked up in several other BJP-ruled states. Legal experts opine that for the state to...

I had written a couple of weeks ago about how India’s middle class has stopped growing in recent years. The leading indicators of our economy — the sales of residential properties, cars, two wheelers, consumer durables (fridges, washing machines, televisions) — have been flat. The...

Did India miss a bus in Afghanistan? With the Taliban takeover of the country complete, the ominous silence from the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), except for the routine statement on protecting Indian interests and giving temporary visas to Afghan refugees, was however broken by...