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A small fire at a judge’s official residence has opened a can of worms, threatening to expose the incidence of pervasive corruption plaguing the nation’s judiciary, considered the third pillar of democracy. The recovery of a huge pile of cash, apparently unaccounted, from the official...

The combined American and European share of the world economy exceeded 50 per cent from the beginning of the 20th century right up till 2009, when it was 51 per cent. After that year it has been declining. It was 43 per cent last year...

With the BJP leadership not taking any chances regarding governance, the Rekha Gupta-led Delhi government is off to a planned start. Six senior officials are being appointed as advisers, or OSDs, to monitor decision-making and ensure ministers remain on course closely. A senior DANICS officer...

Our planet and its inhabitants are in trouble. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change estimates that to meet the targets of the 2015 Paris Agreement and keep global warming below 2° Celsius (relative to preindustrial levels), renewable energy must supply 70-85 per cent of the world’s...

At a time when the strength and credibility of the International Criminal Court (ICC) is under question, the arrest of former President of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte on a warrant issued by the ICC is a proof that the international body is needed to bring...

Five years ago, the world economy was hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic which brought life in almost all countries to a grinding halt. After reeling under its impact for about two years, most economies recovered to a great extent. However, in case of India,...

Napoleon was crowned in December 1804 and 11 years later, in June 1815, lost at Waterloo. In these 11 years, he united Europe for the first time since Charlemagne had done a thousand years before in 804. Napoleon achieved it through battlefield victories against the...

Germany’s Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz has proposed what is being interpreted as a seismic shift in his country’s government spending that seeks to bypass legal restrictions on government debt. All this is intended to allow change in defence spending for years to come. The aim is...

The north-south divide in India has got a fresh lease of life due to the rekindling of the issue of delimitation by the BJP led Central government. Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin has taken the lead on behalf of the southern states to oppose...

Three months after Islamist insurgents seized control of Syria, toppling the long-standing regime of Bashar al-Assad, terrible violence seems to have returned to haunt the West Asian country, this time the focus is against a particular minority group. The country has descended into one of...