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The US air strike on Iranian General Qasem Soleimani last Friday has escalated tensions between Washington and Teheran. In retaliation, Iran Wednesday fired over a dozen ballistic missiles at US airbases in Baghdad, making the region super explosive. Immediately after the US killing of Soleimani...

Nature has a reason for everything. A creature’s environment plays the main part in deciding how its eyes develop and function. For instance, starfish have five eyes at the end of each arm, but they can only see shade and light and huge masses of...

You might be reading this piece in the peace and quiet of your home, without the noise of vehicular traffic or the hustle and bustle of normal life to distract you today. For, it is Bharat Bandh. This is one of the many that this...

Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) is in the eye of a storm again. Masked goons wielding sticks and iron rods entered hostels and brutally attacked resident students. The Students’ Union officer bearers claimed the masked attackers belonged to the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), the students’...

‘Old men dream up wars for the young to fight and die in.’ US Representative George Stanley McGovern said this, and it holds good with every war. It would perhaps be a good quote for US President Donald Trump to remember. In the present scenario,...

Here is what the world saying about our nation in 2020. “As India violence gets worse, police are accused of abusing Muslims” (New York Times, January 3). “As repression in India gets worse, notable figures remain silent” (Washington Post, January 4). “’We are not safe’:...

The Pinarayi Vijayan-led Kerala government, already wracked with financial woes, now also needs to find new heads for the state Finance Department. Two senior IAS officers of the department have been appointed at the Centre on deputation. Additional Chief Secretary (Finance) Manoj Joshi and Principal...

The year 2019 has ended on a rather depressing note. Among the many ominous economic developments we saw last year were a record low in GDP growth, dwindling tax kitty, drying consumer demand, an across the board fall of industries led by automobiles, shrinking exports,...

The silver yellow full moon lights up the sky and makes me instantly happy. We have forgotten how the moon can change the landscape, because we have so many artificial lights. But, as the moon spins round the planet, it alters the Earth’s ecosystems, transforming...

Hindsight is always 20X20. Nonetheless, as it is but human frailty (or strength) to sustain itself on hope, hopefully the New Year 2020 and the new decade will offer us the clarity we need with the necessary foresight. The year past has clearly left us...