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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...

Some problems humanity has created together and must tackle together. Some problems are created locally. Climate change is something that the world has to solve as a whole. If half the world lessens its emissions while the other half increases them, climate change will not...

Well, here’s a financial thriller twist no one saw coming—a Mumbai court has ordered an FIR against former SEBI chief Madhabi Puri Buch over alleged regulatory lapses in a case that dates back to 1994! Talk about digging deep. But this isn’t just about an...

The end of Pax Americana is clearly in sight. While this has long been the goal of many leftists battling “American imperialism,” it is not really all that strange that a US government of right-wing zealots ultimately took a wrecking ball to the world order....