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The appointment of three IAS officers to the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) will add heft to the already most-powerful PMO. The officers are Raghuraj Rajendran of the Madhya Pradesh cadre as director, Amrapali Kata of the Andhra Pradesh cadre as deputy secretary and Mangesh Ghildiyal...

Our state government, like its counterparts in India, arranged to bring back migrant workers from across the country in the aftermath of the Covid-19 outbreak. The Railways, on its part, rushed in with special trains and ferried lakhs of workers from Gujarat, Kerala, Tamil Nadu...

I cannot make up my mind: is the meat eater, who eats dead animals killed in slaughterhouses, worse than the meat eater who kills the animal himself while eating it? There is a certain type of person who goes to a restaurant, chooses a live...

Shlomo Ben-Ami Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has hailed the agreement normalising relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates – which the two countries signed at a White House ceremony on September 15 – as a historic step that equals Israel’s previous peace deals...

Tony Blair Over the next 30 years, Sub-Saharan Africa’s population will double to over two billion, and its economies will industrialize. Africa's development will therefore be critical to the world’s future stability, prosperity, and health. Given this, the continent should be receiving much more international...

Marwan Abboud For millennia, Lebanon has been a meeting point for different cultures and peoples, and also a victim of regional power struggles that have stood in the way of lasting peace. Yet even through the country’s long civil war (1975-90), Lebanon's capital, Beirut, managed...

India’s Foreign Minister comes from a family of scholars. His father, K Subrahmanyam was the founder of the famous think tank IDSA in Delhi and advised Indira Gandhi. On the weaponising of India’s nuclear programme and on military intervention in Bangladesh, Subrahmanyam had a hand....

As many as 131 IPS probationers, including 28 women, who completed 42 weeks of Basic Course Phase-I training at the prestigious Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy in Hyderabad had a rare opportunity to interact with Prime Minister Narendra Modi through a video conference. He...

Natural disasters such as floods and cyclones are routine in Odisha. There has been hardly a year when we have not seen a natural calamity, big or small. The frequency of such disasters has gone up with time due to fast-paced climatic changes. Since the...

My mother, who is remembered by friends and family alike as the world’s most buoyant and caring person, spent the last few months of her life ill in bed with cancer. But no matter how sick she was, the first thing she did every morning...