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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....

Europe has made it clear that it will not accept a so-called peace deal for Ukraine clinched by the US (and as proposed by Russia) in so many words by President Donald Trump. The mood of the European leaders was summed up in the words...

The just published report of the top-level investigation by Israel Defence Forces (IDF) into the Israeli military’s failure to gauge the impending lethal attack by Hamas on 7 October, 2023 reveals the military intelligence was so complacent about its false assessment of Hamas that it...

The unprecedented showdown between US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on 28 February at the Oval Office of the White House marked one of the most intense public confrontations between world leaders in recent memory. The world was kind of stunned to...

What is one to write about hours after a day when the US president scolds Ukraine’s leader about gambling with world war? In November last year, which is to say only three months ago, it was reported that the Biden administration had ‘allowed’ Ukraine to...

Tesla’s intentions of establishing a manufacturing base in India are well-known and have sparked a debate, intertwining market expansion ambitions with the intricacies of global geopolitics. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government is keen to position India as a hub for electric vehicle (EV) manufacturing, offering...

Public institutions worldwide are in crisis. Trust in them is declining, and US President Donald Trump’s administration, working hand in glove with the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, views them as enemies that need to be dismantled. In the face of funding cuts and geopolitical...

The United Nations Conferences on Financing for Development have been great occasions for building consensus on global financing issues. The next meeting, set for mid-2025 in Spain, will continue the progress made previously in Monterrey (2002), Doha (2008), and Addis Ababa (2015), and preparations are...

An unusual level of secrecy surrounds the high-level meeting of Arab leaders who got together in the wake of US President Donald Trump’s suggestion to move all Palestinians out of the Gaza Strip and let realtors do business on that strip of land. This was...