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Here are two headlines from this month. One is ‘FATF’s Thumbs Up To India’s Efforts To Tackle Terror Financing, Money Laundering: Why It Matters’. Another was ‘FATF Flags Terror Financing Lacunae In Indian NGO Sector’. Let us see what these mean when put together. If...

The suspension of three senior IPS officers in Andhra Pradesh over the wrongful arrest of actor-model Kadambari Jethwani has sparked a debate about the misuse of power and the need for accountability. P. Sitharama Anjaneyulu, Kranti Rana Tata, and Vishal Gunni, each holding high-ranking positions...

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his Italian counterpart, Giorgia Meloni, who heads the far-right anti-immigration Brothers of Italy party, met in Rome 16 September. This meeting has sparked off a controversy as the two leaders discussed the highly sensitive and thorny issue of tackling...

Gun culture in the US has cast a dark shadow on the crucial presidential elections barely two months away. Former President and Republican candidate Donald Trump faced an attempt on his life for the second time 15 September during the run-up to the election. In...

I n May 2013, while hearing a matter related to the coal scam, a Supreme Court Bench led by Justice RM Lodha, who has now retired, had made scathing observations on the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), dubbing it as a “caged parrot speaking in...

What is today India’s dominant political force, the Bharatiya Janata Party, has had a history of putting a pause on its ideology for political benefit. It also discarded positions that became outdated in time. This aspect has become important today as we will look at...

This column has previously talked about the Odisha cadre’s rise. Here’s another example. Tuhin Kanta Pandey, a senior IAS officer from the Odisha cadre (1987 batch), is India’s new Finance Secretary, stepping into a pivotal role following the elevation of Dr. T.V. Somanathan to Cabinet...

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has suffered a jolt after the Left-of-the-Centre New Democratic Party (NDP), that had helped him remain in power, withdrew support on a crucial trade union issue. The real reason is, of course, an assessment by the NDP that Trudeau’s popularity...

The latest announcement by the European Observatory Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) is disturbing and alarming. It has revealed that mankind has just experienced the hottest summer ever measured. The three summer months from June to August 2024 saw the highest average global temperature since...

Ethnic violence that has rocked Manipur for more than 400 days has now taken a deadlier turn with the warring groups using drones and rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) even as fresh killings over the weekend kept the north-eastern state on the edge. Six people were killed...