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With the victory of reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian in a runoff presidential election, one can hope for some relief to the people of Iran who are reeling under a radical Islamist regime amid strained ties with the West and heightened tensions with the country’s sworn-enemy...

The victory of the Labour Party in the parliamentary elections of the UK could not have come at a better time when Europe is on the cusp of change from liberal democracy to Far Right NeoNazi and Neo-Fascist politics of intolerance and xenophobia directed against...

American President Joe Biden, who is 81, says he will not drop out of the election in November and intends to be President again. The problem is that he is now being urged by people in his own party to quit, on the understanding that...

Putting speculations to rest, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath appointed Manoj Kumar Singh as the new Chief Secretary of the state. He took over from Durga Shanker Mishra, who was not granted a fourth extension beyond June 30. For a while, there was widespread...

French President Emmanuel Macron’s gamble of a snap parliamentary poll has miserably failed to pay off in the first round of voting. Instead of helping him consolidate his position, it has created a situation in which the Far Right – National Rally party (RN) led...

There could be a debate on whether it was politically correct for the newly-elected Speaker of the Lok Sabha, Om Birla, to move a resolution on the first day of the new session to condemn an event that had happened half a century ago –...

J ulian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks has, after a 14-year-long tortuous legal journey, walked free. The trade-off between him and the US administration for his release, however, does not bring good news for freedom of speech and expression. As part of the deal the 52-year-old...

US President Joe Biden’s disastrous debate with former president Donald Trump in Atlanta has created doubts, even among his supporters, whether the 81-year-old would be able to put a tough fight in the November presidential election. Biden, seeking a second term in the White House,...

On 28 June, India’s foreign ministry put out a strong statement against a report from the United States State Department on religious freedom in India. Our statement said that “as in the past, the report is deeply biased, lacks understanding of India’s social fabric and...

The presence of women in the Indian Foreign Service (IFS) increased by 6.6% to the current 37.8% in the period 2014–2022. Remarkably, between 2018 and 2020, the percentage of female recruits in the IFS surpassed 40%. Observers note that the IFS generally has a higher...