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Japan has imposed a state of emergency in its capital Tokyo, to be in force during the Summer Olympic Games 2020 to be held in the city from July 23 to August 8. The step has been taken to keep spectators out of the stadiums...

The creation of the Ministry of Cooperation shortly before the Narendra Modi government’s biggest reshuffle July 8 is a shrewd and carefully calculated move by the BJP to tinker with the country’s Constitution in order to consolidate its political base at the grassroots, mainly in...

Stan Swamy, who died a few days ago after being denied bail in the Bhima Koregaon case, was a Tamilian priest who spent decades working with the Adivasis in Jharkhand. Before that he was director of the Indian Social Institute in Bangalore. So why was...

Sensing the current popular mood against the UP government due to the Covid crisis, the party and the Modi sarkar are keen to ensure the party’s success in the upcoming Assembly elections. A lot of that worry has to do with the perceptions about Yogi...

Daron Acemoglu With the annual inflation rate in the United States reaching 5% in May, economists and investors are right to be apprehensive about deficit spending, public debt, and the risk of sustained price growth – which is higher now than it has been for...

Sarah Hawkes & Kent Buse “Is my lipstick protecting me against COVID-19?” ranks as one of the more intriguing email queries we have received from a member of the public since we began coordinating the world’s largest tracker of sex-disaggregated data on the pandemic. In...

It is a sad commentary on the country’s system of justice and investigation that Father Stan Swamy, a Jesuit priest and tribal rights activist, has died. He underwent inhuman treatment behind the bars after his arrest in the Bhima Koregaon case in October 2020. The...

It reflects poorly on the Indian government that it is not prepared to reopen the case of alleged corruption in the controversial Rafale fighter aircraft deal following fresh revelations. In the meanwhile, France has commenced an investigation into the case and a judge has been...

The departure of American troops July 2 from the Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan, the linchpin of the US-led war against terrorists operating from the country for nearly two decades, marks a new chapter in Afghanistan’s history. Since the US took control of the field following...

Column writing is referred to as ‘punditry’ in America. Their definition of a pundit is “an expert in a particular subject or field who is frequently called upon to give their opinions to the public.” However this is not how punditry usually expresses itself. Newspaper...