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US President Donald Trump has backed off from his earlier proposal to mediate on the Kashmir issue. He expressed confidence in Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who assured the US president on the sidelines of the G7 Summit at Biarritz, France, that India will be able...

Fire is destroying the Amazon jungle in Brazil. The jungle, according to some findings, produces about 20 per cent of the world’s oxygen. Although agriculture by the slash-and-burn technique has been in practice in that region of Brazil, the National Institute for Space Research (INPE)...

India is faced with a serious liquidity crisis, which will have a major adverse bearing on economic growth. The alert comes from none other than Niti Aayog vice chairman Rajiv Kumar, who stated past week that this is an unprecedented situation and that the nation...

Ghasiram Panda The National Education Policy of 1986, which called for special emphasis on removing disparities and equalising educational opportunities, was a milestone in India’s education—policy-making. The Rights of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, popularly known as RTE Act, enacted in 2009, took...

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s announcement to allow free travel for women in public transport buses in the capital from October smacks of a politically wily move. Kejriwal knows pretty well that legal challenge would follow, as the Constitution does not allow governmental actions on...

Having taken some bold yet highly controversial steps in Kashmir, it was the need of time for the Modi government to lie low and allow tempers to cool down. But, the reverse seems to be happening, if defence minister Rajnath Singh’s statements in relation to...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in his Independence Day address to the nation Thursday, announced the decision to appoint a Chief of Defence Staff (CDS). This officer, to be a five-star General, would become the single point of contact for the administration in defence matters. The...

Proof of innocence is the absence (or the elimination) of complainants. That appears to remain the mantra of powerful people accused of crimes, even heinous ones, in many an instance. The accident that the woman who alleged rape by Kuldeep Singh Sengar, the now-expelled and...

What’s clear about the tourism scenario in India is that domestic tourism is picking up while foreign tourist arrivals are thinning down year after year except for marginal rises here and there. The Union tourism ministry has sent an SOS to Prime Minister Modi, urging...

Blowing hot and cold is a game integral to international diplomacy. Granted that this has great relevance, North Korea has been taking it too far. The latest is a new drama in a long series; the firing of a new set of short-range ballistic missiles...