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Prakash Mishra is back in the spotlight. The BJP-led Odisha government has appointed the retired IPS officer as an advisor to Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi—with cabinet rank, no less. That’s a big deal, not just for Mishra but also for Odisha’s political landscape. Mishra’s...

DeepSeek

A Sputnik Moment?

After the release of DeepSeek-R1 on 20 January triggered a massive drop in chipmaker Nvidia’s share price and sharp declines in various other tech companies’ valuations, some declared this a “Sputnik moment” in the Sino-American race for supremacy in artificial intelligence. While America’s AI industry...

USAID funding scandal

Aid Freeze

What was being feared about the widespread disaster that Donald Trump’s presidency would cause has started to come true within days of his assumption of office. The Trump administration’s freeze on foreign aid threatens to derail global efforts to fight disease outbreaks, counter terrorism and...

Gaza: Stark Choice

Gaza: Stark Choice

Palestinians are returning home to northern Gaza, though hardly any structure of their homes still stands. Their hospitals, schools and other basic infrastructure have been reduced to rubble in the wake of incessant and systematic bombardment by Israeli forces. Yet, amid the destruction, scenes of...

Trump lawyers back in DC court as two sides differ over trial date in election subversion case

The Trump Tariffs

Aglobal trade war seems to have been switched on. US President Donald Trump has just done what he had been threatening to do all through his presidential campaign: imposing tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China, his country’s three biggest trading partners. Trump on 1 February...

Sound of Silence

There are two big ideas that India’s Prime Minister is committed to, and this commitment of his has shown itself over his years as leader. The first is to birth a developed nation by 2047. India is to become like the United States and China,...

New Wrapping

The Union Cabinet’s new Unified Pension Scheme (UPS) has set tongues wagging. Touted as a clever blend of the Old Pension Scheme (OPS) and the National Pension System (NPS), it’s worth asking—does it bring anything new to the table, or is it just a repackaged...

Pandemic’s Legacy

Not only is Donald Trump back in the White House, but the far right is poised to occupy the Austrian chancellorship for the first time in the country’s postwar history, and Germany is hurtling toward a fraught election next month, following the collapse of its...

AI Push

When US President Donald Trump unveiled his government’s plan for big investment for the development of artificial intelligence (AI) and United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres issued a stark warning about AI’s global threats at the recent World Economic Forum summit in Davos, the two underlined...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Holocaust Lessons

Eighty years ago, on 27 January 1945, the concentration and extermination camp known as Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated by the Soviet Red Army. Over a million people declared by the Nazis as “opponents of the regime” or “sub-human” were murdered there between 1940 and 1945. They...

 

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Friedrich Merz

Germany’s Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz has proposed what is being interpreted as a seismic shift in his country’s government spending that...

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