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O minous signals have started emanating from Taiwan hours after the new President Lai Ching-te of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) took charge. He had won the elections with the pledge to defend Taiwan against China’s aggrandisement, while cautiously following the policy of maintaining status...

The Bharatiya Janata Party is India’s largest political force but its ideology is not properly understood. Some aspects of it — the opposition to dynasty, the promise of economic development — are clear, even though these may not be adhered to by the party fully....

I n other news from the diplomatic world, the MEA is knee-deep in an investigation over some shady real estate deals by Indian missions abroad. The MEA had told these missions, which were operating out of rented spaces, to buy land and build embassies. Some...

The great thing that the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Karim Khan has done by seeking arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his Defence Minister Yoav Gallant and senior Hamas officials is that he has shown the guts to charge...

The cruel irony of the sad demise of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi along with the country’s foreign minister and several other officials 20 May after their helicopter crashed in a foggy, mountainous region in the country’s northwest is that the chopper was manufactured in the...

The Union Territory of Ladakh carved out of the erstwhile state of Jammu & Kashmir in 2019, went to polls today. What makes the contest for the lone Lok Sabha seat in Ladakh, the country’s largest Parliamentary constituency in terms of area, significant is that...

The attempt on the life of Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico is a despicable act of violence. It is also a glaring testimony of what the politics of polarisation can lead to. Those who use communal divide to capture political power, plunder the resources of...

On 13 May this year, a headline was published which read: “UNlinked body defers NHRC-India accreditation for second year in a row.” Beneath this was the line “The decision could now affect India’s ability to vote at the Human Rights Council and some UNGA bodies.”...

Perhaps stung by all the criticism of the changes to the current laws, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) is actively seeking input from the Directors-General of Police across all states and union territories on a proposal to modernise and streamline over a dozen pre-independence...

There is bad news from Italy. The Far-Right government of Giorgia Meloni is virtually gagging the media and using the country’s public broadcaster for the ruling alliance’s propaganda. On the other hand, there is also good news. It is observed that Italian journalists are not...