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There is no doubt the way fighting in Gaza was ended and a peace process set in motion in the presence of 20 top world leaders, including the US President Donald Trump, represented October 13 a historic moment. In Israel, the release of living hostages...

There is rejoicing as peace has started to return to the heart of the war-ravaged Middle East, and a ceasefire has come into force between Israel and Hamas in the presence of some of the top leaders of the world. It is heartening to see...

Some politicians and feminists are screaming that it is outrageous that the Taliban could display its misogyny on Indian soil by barring women journalists – both Indian and foreign - from attending a Press conference addressed by Afghanistan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi at its...

Thirty five years ago, India chose to go down two paths, on both of which it remains. The first path was to move to a new form of economics. This was informally named liberalisation and involved opening India to foreign capital, dismantling the license raj,...

It started, as many big stories do these days, with a tweet. A blunt social media post by a mid-sized trading firm announced that it was shutting down its India operations after weeks of alleged harassment by Chennai Customs. Not a formal press release, not...

I t is prudent for officials in high positions to speak with care and caution, for their words carry the weight of their position and responsibilities and can make or break any situation. Any loose talk on their part can have far-reaching consequences. This is...

When US President Donald Trump’s administration in a new fiat, made the coveted H-1B visa available to foreigners at a prohibitive cost, it virtually spelt doom for high-tech professionals and scientists from India, as well as a few other countries, who desired it most for...

Drug adulteration is a major scourge in India where an unholy nexus of the all-powerful pharma industry and unscrupulous doctors, who are incentivised to prescribe medicines of specific brands, has been playing havoc with the lives of common people in the absence of little to...

At the end of every year, the organisation I represent puts out a report on human rights in India. This is part of Amnesty International’s global assessment, which focuses on violations mostly, though not exclusively, by states around the world. I was going through the...

When the screen at Prime Minister Modi’s rally in Banswara went dark for ten minutes, the fallout was swift: Rajasthan’s Infotech Secretary Archana Singh lost her job. Ten minutes of blank screen, ten seconds of bureaucratic chopping. It’s hard not to smile wryly at the...