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At the end of every year, the organisation I represent puts out a report on human rights in India. This is part of Amnesty International’s global assessment, which focuses on violations mostly, though not exclusively, by states around the world. I was going through the...

When the screen at Prime Minister Modi’s rally in Banswara went dark for ten minutes, the fallout was swift: Rajasthan’s Infotech Secretary Archana Singh lost her job. Ten minutes of blank screen, ten seconds of bureaucratic chopping. It’s hard not to smile wryly at the...

At a time when many people across the globe holding high offices or having money power and political clout are continuing to evade the laws despite their wrongdoings - economic or political-, it does great credit to the French legal system that it could send...

During the past fortnight, European states have reported a spurt in incursions into their airspace, the latest such instance being drones appearing above Danish airports 25 September. This came close on the heels of drones over Poland, Romania, Estonia and a German naval frigate in...

Bordered by China to the east and Pakistan to the west, Ladakh holds immense strategic value for India. Yet, more than five years after its separation from Jammu & Kashmir in 2019, Ladakh’s political future remains unclear. The promise of better governance and stronger representation...

“God moves in mysterious ways his wonders to perform,” so goes a hymn I read in school. Or perhaps it was a line in P.G. Wodehouse, I forget which. But no matter, the point is that miracles usually happen outside of the knowledge of us...

Rajesh Agrawal, who will soon become Commerce Secretary, is in charge of India’s trade talks with the United States, which have resumed. Agrawal, an IAS officer from the 1994 batch, is accustomed to difficult negotiations. With a career that straddles trade promotion, exports, and policy...

I t was a significant moment in the history of the struggle of Palestinian people to get a state of their own, when French President Emmanuel Macron officially recognised the Palestinian state at the United Nations on 22 September. Alongside France, which co-convened the meeting...

What has been unofficial for years is now official. Saudi Arabia’s landmark mutual defence pact with Pakistan signed on 17 September could come with double benefits for Pakistan. It will greatly strengthen Islamabad and help it play a major role in the geopolitical strategies planned...

US President Donald Trump on Saturday, 20 September, once again asserted that it was he who stopped the four-day military conflict between India and Pakistan in May through trade. Since 10 May, when Trump announced on social media that India and Pakistan had agreed to...