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Biden’s Toughest Job

After weeks of refusing to concede election defeat and violating the tradition of transition of power at the White House, President Donald J. Trump’s administration on Monday authorised President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. to begin a formal transition process. Trump’s green light to proceed with...

Picture collage of Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. PC: File/ Geo.tv)

NEW MID-EAST PLAY

The covert rendezvous with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia on Monday is a major political and diplomatic victory for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu coming as it does a little over two months after signing a peace deal with the UAE and...

A screenshot of the book titled “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man”(PC: news.cgtn.com)

Trump Vs Trump

While people across the globe are clueless and also disturbed about the inexplicable behaviour of US President Donald Trump questioning the legitimacy of the result of the Presidential poll in favour of his Democratic rival Joe Biden, here comes another Trump - the President’s niece,...

Aakar Patel

Criminal neglect

Hong Kong has banned Air India flights again this week, after Indians landing there tested positive for Covid-19 for the fifth time since August. Passengers are supposed to board the plane only after taking a test that confirms that they are negative, but the testing...

Who’s afraid of Nitin Gadkari?

Union Road and Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari’s recent sharp rebuke of National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) officials for the delay in the construction of the NHAI headquarters was delivered with his typical smiling demeanor but carried a lethal punch that shocked the babus. It...

Ease procurement

Paddy procurement is arguably the most important agri-business activity in the state that runs for five months in two phases with a nearly two months’ gap. It constitutes a key part in the state’s overall economy. This year, the state government has maintained more or...

BABY EATERS

Maneka Gandhi Nothing is sweeter than a baby of any species: Nothing angers us more than when a human baby is killed. The waste of a life, the cruelty on an innocent being, shocks us. But we do not apply the same sensitivities to other...

File photo of Union Home Minister Amit Shah (PC: outlookindia.com)

Old habits die hard

Union Home Minister Amit Shah branding the political leaders of Jammu and Kashmir ‘Gupkar gang’ has raised quite a few eyebrows. In a string of tweets, Shah said the Gupkar alliance, a coalition of political parties in J&K, is a ‘global gathbandhan against national interest.’...

Former US President Barack Obama’s new book ‘A Promised Land’ is seen in a bookstore in Washington DC November 17, 2020. (PC: AFP)

OBAMA LAND

Sometimes timing plays a decisive role in shaping one’s life and future. A move a little earlier or a little delayed may make or mar one’s life. This, by hindsight, seems to be true about the US President-elect Joe Biden. As raving reviews with excerpts...

Representatives of signatory countries during the signing ceremony for the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) trade pact at the ASEAN summit held online in Hanoi November 15, 2020. (PC: sky-news.co.uk)

Chinese Chequers

The formation of the world’s biggest free trade bloc – the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) - by 15 Asia-Pacific economies, minus India, on 15 November comes close on the heels of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Summit (SCO) last week. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had,...

 

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