When the Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was proclaimed by the Party spokesperson as “janeu dhari Hindu”, neither the Party supporters nor its opponents were amused. Both sides saw it as an act of de ...
Read morePunjab does not look poor. Perhaps that is precisely why its economic predicament is so easy to misunderstand.Drive through its towns and villages and there is plenty to suggest prosperity. Houses are ...
Read moreDuring his recent visit to Ireland, Trump, the perennial disrupter of geopolitics’ business as usual, said that he would love to see a united Ireland which would be a “fantastic thing” as also â ...
Read moreIn 2024, when I headed Haryana’s narcotics bureau, one of our officers stood before a hall of college students and explained, slide by slide, why drugs are dangerous. Halfway through, a second-year ...
Read moreAn electoral roll is more than a database. It determines who may exercise the franchise, and an error can deprive a citizen of a voice in government. India’s Election Commission has placed an increa ...
Read moreSociologist and activist DaShanne Stokes had said, “Truth is hard, propaganda is cheap.” He should have added that propaganda has a limited life; after that the truth emerges. China is a past-mast ...
Read moreThe New Delhi Declaration is significant not merely because 11 governments with divergent strategic and economic interests endorsed a 45-page document, but because its economic provisions reveal the e ...
Read moreChina’s proposal to establish a BRICS open-source artificial-intelligence community deserves attention not merely as another diplomatic announcement, but as a possible attempt to reshape the technol ...
Read moreThe United Nations has been doing its two-penny bit on regulating the use and abuse of outer space ever since man-made objects started operating there. Unlike airspace, where the nations below exercis ...
Read moreThe 18th BRICS Summit, held in New Delhi on 12–13 September 2026, reflected the gradual restructuring of global power. Convened amid wars, sanctions, trade disputes and mounting uncertainty, it demo ...
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