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To the ever lengthening list of Far-Right parties forming governments or coming within striking distance of capturing power in one European country after another is added the resounding victory of the Party for Freedom (PVV) led by Geert Wilders of the Netherlands. It has won...

The four-day ceasefire and hostage-release deal between Israel and Hamas, brokered by Qatar and the US, has begun since 7 a.m. local time November 24. It marks the first break in Israel’s continuous seven-week-long bombardment of the Gaza Strip following unprecedented air and ground strikes...

For 50 years, India has not changed the composition of the Lok Sabha (through what is called delimitation). Enormous power is in the hands of the individual who is chosen to increase or decrease a region’s share of seats. The orders ‘have the force of...

  I n Maharashtra’s intricate administrative landscape, where the ebb and flow of power is often measured by the stability of key personnel, the recent and somewhat enigmatic removal of Ashish Sharma, Principal Secretary attached to the office of Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, has...

A political earthquake has taken place in Argentina with the Argentines electing Far-right outsider Javier Milei, 53, as their new President. The Left-wing politics that has been spreading its wings in Latin America – Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Bolivia, Mexico and Peru – has stumbled in...

The threat of artificial intelligence (AI) to human civilisation is assuming varied forms every passing day. Net-users have been, for some time now, confronted with an AI-powered simulation called “deepfake” which has the potential to wreak incalculable damage on the world, both financially and politically....

The world is still at a loss to comprehend why US President Joe Biden rubbed China’s President Xi Jinping the wrong way after their much awaited and much needed meeting took place in San Francisco. It was expected that the meeting would result in a...

When Congressman Shashi Tharoor complained in a tweet once that the BJP had merely changed the names of 23 Congress schemes, and said that Modi’s was a “name-changing” government and not a “game-changing one”, his claim was put to the test. It was found that...

In the never-ending tussle between Narendra Modi sarkar and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, Delhi Chief Secretary Naresh Kumar finds himself embroiled in a fresh controversy. While his previous headline-grabbing act involved sending files directly to Lt Governor V.K. Saxena on service matters, bypassing the...

What the sacked UK home secretary Suella Braverman has done is nothing short of madness. For, no other minister of any government in living memory is known to have aired her or his views in a newspaper on the action of an agency of the...