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Turkey’s presidential election is all set to go for a runoff as neither the incumbent, Recep Tayyip Erdogan nor his main challenger Kemal Kilicdaroglu, could get the mandatory 51 per cent of votes for outright victory in the first round. Erdogan secured 49.4 per cent...

The Karnataka Assembly poll results are a resounding defeat for the BJP. This should come as a surprise because most people thought the brand of politics that thrives on injecting communal passion to the exclusion of all other issues, including economy and the question of...

There are questions that must be asked of the Opposition, and I am sure others will ask them. It is the party that governs the state and the Centre that is accountable and so these questions must be asked of it and the man leading...

What are retired IAS and IPS officers doing with ace poll strategist-turned-neta Prashant Kishor? Given the man’s track record of working with some of India’s biggest political parties, including the BJP, the Congress and the TMC, it is not surprising that there is speculation about...

The world finally heaved a sigh of relief after the World Health Organization (WHO) announced last week that COVID-19 is no longer a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC). The Director General of WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, made public the recommendation by the organization’s...

There was a time when a debate raged over whether art should be created for art’s sake or whether art should be used as a propaganda tool. The proponents of the former believed art should be free from attempts to send out any overt messages...

“Law’s delay”, as Shakespeare famously put in one of his plays on the dysfunction of the system of governance, is proverbial. Those who want to dodge the operation of the law try every possible and impossible way to delay the process of law so as...

We hosted the foreign minister of Pakistan, a young dynast of the sort India is familiar with. His mother, who was prime minister, was assassinated by extremists, his grandfather, who was prime minister, was assassinated by the judiciary and the army.His uncles were assassinated, one...

Despite the practice being illegal across the country, eight people have died while cleaning sewers in various parts of Gujarat in March-April this year. Social activists however claim that the real number of such deaths is significantly higher. According to some reports, the state ranks...

Not much is known about the religious aspect of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as the focus has, so far, been on military prowess of the warring nations and tactical advantages gained or lost on the soil of Ukraine. That it has also been turned into...