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More than two years after violent ethnic strife erupted in Manipur that claimed the lives of hundreds of civilians and split the state between two warring communities, peace and normalcy still remain elusive, with sporadic incidents of violence being reported every now and then. In...

The Doomsday Clock is a visual tool designed to warn the public about how close humans are to destroying our world with dangerous technologies. The time on the clock is set by experts to reflect how far away from annihilation (midnight) we are, and if...

Another week, another scam. This time, it’s 15 civil servants now under the scanner for allegedly faking their way into coveted IAS, IPS, IFS and IRS posts using bogus reservation claims. The Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) has finally stirred, launching an inquiry after...

Poland’s Right-wing Opposition candidate Karol Nawrocki, backed by the nationalist Law and Justice Party (PiS) and US President Donald Trump’s administration, narrowly won the presidential election securing 50.89 per cent vote against liberal Warsaw Mayor Rafał Trzaskowski’s 49.11 per cent. The result was a dramatic...

The borderline between truth and propaganda gets blurred during war. That is only natural since two warring groups or countries are supposedly propelled by the sole aim of defeating the enemy by hook or by crook. Pure propaganda, half-truth or even falsehood is a potent...

Recent remarks by India’s two top military leaders, in the wake of the four-day military conflict with Pakistan, have underscored the complex nature of modern day warfare. In a significant revelation, Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Anil Chauhan, on 31 May, confirmed that the...

On 9 February 2022, the government was asked in the Rajya Sabha the following question: “Will the Minister of Home Affairs be pleased to state whether it is a fact that India ratified the Genocide Convention (1948) passed by the UN General Assembly (UNGA); (b)...

Following the Pahalgam terror attack and the armed hostilities with Pakistan, India’s foreign policy messaging hasn’t exactly been ringing out with clarity. The External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar, usually a sharp and assertive voice, has been strangely muted, especially in the government-mounted global outreach aimed...

The way things are moving in Bangladesh, especially during the past few days after a closed-door meeting between the country’s interim leader and Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus and the chiefs of the country’s three armed forces on 20 May, indicate a fierce power struggle has...

As the saying goes, “better late than never.” It is good that US President Donald Trump has realised, though late, yet not too late, that his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin cannot be blindly trusted, as he has so far been doing, for ending Russia’s war...