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It may not be a coincidence that Hong Kong’s Chief Executive John Lee met Chinese President Xi Jinping 18 December in Beijing when a landmark national security trial for pro-democracy media mogul of Hong Kong, 76-year-old Lai Chee-Ying, also known as Jimmy Lai, began in...

When highly respected former judges of the Supreme Court open their mouths to find fault with some crucial apex court judgements on Central decisions and legislative actions with far-reaching consequences for the country’s democratic system, it is cause for both hope and alarm. For, in...

From the very outset, the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) in Dubai was doomed to fail, largely due to its setup – hosted by a petrostate, presided by the CEO of that state’s biggest oil company and amid stiff opposition from the world’s most...

A rational nation, a reasonable state, should be able to distinguish between a peaceful protest, however spirited, and an act of terrorism. That we no longer can is a reflection of two things. One is India’s laws which have always been bad but have become...

Babus in Odisha are leaving nothing to chance to find new options for investments. The low-hanging fruits seem to be the many shuttered industries that litter the state. With the announcement that Welspun Group would take over a long-closed textile facility, there is now hope...

The plight of Manipuri women stripped, brutally beaten and raped during one of the worst ethnic conflicts of recent times in north-east India has been pushed out of media headlines. What is hogging the limelight, instead, is the electoral success stories of the BJP beating...

The Supreme Court verdict validating the abrogation of Article 370 according special powers to the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir could not come at a more opportune moment for the BJP which is already basking in the glory of crucial victory in the Assembly...

S urrounded by decorated soldiers and mothers of fallen soldiers, Russia’s Vladimir Putin announced that he will run for President again in March 2024 but it came as no surprise to anyone. “I will not hide that I have had different thoughts at different times...

Last week, I wrote about South Asia remaining poor compared to nations in Asia, which have done something different from us. The task is to figure out what we are doing wrong or differently and what is undeniably different about us and them. It cannot...

The recent empanelling of IRS officer Rahul Navin as the interim chief of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and conferring upon him the additional secretary rank was not merely anticipated but deemed inevitable, according to several senior babus. Navin assumed the role in September 2023, succeeding...