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After nearly two decades since the last major restructuring of the Indian Foreign Service (IFS) cadre, the Modi sarkar has approved a proposal to increase the cadre’s strength by 215 officers over the next five years. This significant decision stems from India’s growing influence and...

A virtual “fish” war has started between Japan on one hand and Russia and China on the other. It has been triggered by Russia’s decision 16 October to follow its ally China in suspending all Japanese seafood imports over Tokyo’s release of wastewater from the...

In a historic poll in Poland, centrist and progressive forces are poised to form government wresting power from the ruling Law and Justice nationalist party, which has ironically won the most votes for a single party. This is the overwhelming verdict of exit polls which...

A week after Hamas unleashed unprecedented attacks on Israel raining down thousands of rockets, massacring Israeli youth and children and taking several Israelis hostage it is now becoming clear that there is a method in the madness. The horrific barbarity came in the wake of...

“The CAG is the supreme audit institution of India and is expected to promote financial accountability and transparency in the affairs of the audited entities,” the Comptroller and Auditor General of India said in its 2019–20 performance report. But Narendra Modi’s stranglehold on institutions has...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi may love his babus but the increasing involvement of former babus in politics is causing tensions among the BJP cadres. This trend has gained momentum in recent times. While former civil servants have taken significant roles within the PMO and government,...

The just removed US House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy looks like a pathetic figure and virtually symbolises the chaos the American democratic institution has plunged into. Lately, he had been wooing ‘radical’ elements in his Republican Party who are beholden to former President Donald...

It is certainly a piece of good luck that in these troubled times the message of peace has preceded the sound of war drums. It is also a queer coincidence that the theatres of war and peace this time are located in the heart of...

Saturday morning’s surprise and totally unprecedented attack by air, land and sea by the ruling Hamas militant group in the Gaza Strip in Israel’s southern parts seems to be a colossal intelligence failure of Israel. The world over, Israel was known as the Mother of...

The world’s largest economy is the United States, which has a GDP of $26 trillion. Then comes China with $19 trillion. Third is Japan ($4.4 trillion), Germany fourth ($4.3 billion) and fifth is India ($3.7 trillion). During last month’s Vibrant Gujarat summit, the prime minister...