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UN climate talks, known as Conference of Parties or COP, have begun in Brazil from 10 November. With the participation of about 50,000 delegates from almost every country, this marks the 30th edition of the conference known as COP 30. The conference is to continue...

Misogyny and sexual assault on women have become a deeply ingrained male perversion across the globe. Neither the so-called developed nor developing countries are immune to this vice, which does not seem to accept geographical frontiers. But when the body of the highest functionary of...

After a year in the political wilderness, Democrats in the US have finally got the taste of convincing victory in elections to different bodies and posts that appear to puncture the pride and confidence of President Donald Trump and the Republican Party. This will be...

The first amendment of the United States constitution reads as follows: ‘Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to...

For years, officers within India’s Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) have quietly seethed at the glass ceiling above them; one made not of merit, but of deputation. Top posts in CRPF, BSF, CISF and other forces were long dominated by Indian Police Service (IPS) officers...

Dani Rodrik We need new ideas to address the three greatest economic challenges of our time: climate change, the erosion of the middle class, and poverty. The first is an existential threat to our physical environment; the second drives polarisation and undermines democracy; and the...

“We're just going to kill people that are bringing drugs into our country,” US President Donald Trump recently told reporters in the White House. His administration had already begun to do just that, using air strikes in the Caribbean Sea and the eastern Pacific Ocean...

There was no dearth of pomp and ceremony as President Mama Samia Suluhu Hassan took oath of office 3 November with the diplomatic corps attending the swearing-in proceedings. But unlike at previous swearing ceremonies, members of the public were conspicuous by their absence and that...

A proxy war is being waged in Sudan taking a heavy toll of human lives and leaving behind a trail of blood, rape and genocidal violence on an unprecedented scale. The fierceness has assumed such proportions that the country is now being virtually carved out...

In a move that has stunned world leaders and alarmed non-proliferation experts, US President Donald Trump announced that he has instructed the Pentagon to “start testing our nuclear weapons on an equal basis” with other countries. The announcement, made on his social media platform Truth...