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European leaders did what they are known to be good at – a brand of diplomacy aimed at antagonizing neither of two contending parties. This is how the 15-hour-long talks at the recent EU summit in Brussels can be summed up as it ended up...

Far-Right politics has claimed yet another South American country – Chile - with the recent victory of the ultraconservative lawyer, Jose Antonio Kast who defeated his rival, the Left party candidate Jeannette Jara in the presidential race. Jara is a minister in the outgoing Communist...

Bangladesh has once again been gripped by violent unrest fol lowing the death of youth leader Sharif Osman Hadi, deepen ing political uncertainty in India’s immediate neighbourhood. Hadi’s killing has triggered widespread protests across several cities, intensifi ed anti-India sentiment, and led to targeted attacks...

On December 17, Wayanad MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra asked the Lok Sabha to send the Viksit Bharat - Guarantee For Rozgar And Ajeevika Mission Bill, 2025, to the Standing Committee for suggestions and changes. Opposition MPs said that the Bill was made available on the...

By Dilip Cherian When India quietly decided to send Rahul Rasgotra to Port Louis as National Security Advisor (NSA), it wasn’t just another routine posting. It was a deliberate signal. For years, the Mauritius NSA position has typically gone to officers with a strong external...

The BJP-led NDA government’s proposed change in the nomenclature of the Centre’s flagship social welfare scheme for the poor, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), launched by the previous UPA government in 2005, seemingly is a rank, deplorable dishonour to the father...

It is not a bad idea, it appears, if top-notch politicians get incarcerated, at least for some days, so as to understand what prisons, or those that are now euphemistically called correctional homes, actually mean for an inmate. In fact, it is exactly this word...

The United States on 11 December unveiled a new strategic initiative ‘Pax Silica’ aimed at building a secure and trusted supply chain spanning critical minerals, emerging technologies, advanced manufacturing and semiconductors. The members of the grouping are the US, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, The Netherlands,...

Governance is hard and good governance, meaning efficient and effective governance, is harder. Optics is a poor substitute for outcomes, but when outcomes are hard to come by through governance, then optics can be relied upon rather than admitting failure. When the airline business grinds...

By Dilip Cherian   The IndiGo incident has once again reminded us of something we often overlook: India operates one of the world’s fastest-growing aviation markets with a regulator that treats expertise as an optional add-on. Sensible? Not particularly. Across the world, aviation regulators are...