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US President Donald Trump’s peace initiatives appear to be turning into a one-sided affair in which the aggressor is being allowed to dictate terms and the victims virtually coerced to accept them, swallowing their self-respect and pride without asking questions of justice or fairness. As...

Even after running overtime for more than 18 hours, the COP30 summit at Belém, Brazil, concluded with a compromise agreement that failed to secure a pledge to phase out fossil fuels. In fact, the terms “fossil fuels” were absent from the COP30 climate pledge. The...

A lot of things are being alleged by ‘sources’ regarding a raid on a newspaper called Kashmir Times, and its editor, Anuradha Bhasin. Some background is in order so readers can place things in perspective. On 2 June 2020, the Modi government announced ‘New Media...

There are fast moves in babudom bureaucracy, and then there is the Sujit Kumar story, which has impressed many in service circles. In just 51 days, Kumar went from Principal Commissioner in Delhi to BJP MLA from Gaura Bauram in Darbhanga, Bihar. Normally, such transitions...

The first murmurings of rebellion against Germany’s Chancellor Friedrich Merz are now being heard, just six months after he assumed office. When he took over, Europe came to terms with Donald Trump’s return to White House and the financial markets in Paris, Milan, and Berlin...

A tribunal in Bangladesh has sentenced former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina November 17 to death. The verdict was pronounced after convicting her of crimes against humanity, including murder and ordering the use of lethal weapons against protesters during the student uprising that ultimately ousted her...

Recent election results from Bihar Legislative Assembly could be counted as great pointers for the emergence, in the near future, of a healthy democratic atmosphere in India. Undoubtedly, the general feeling that media reports gave prior to polling was that Nitish + BJP and allies...

Aakar Patel Some years ago, NITI Aayog said it would prepare a ‘single, informative dashboard for all the twenty-nine (later 32) global indices’ on which India was ranked. This monitoring exercise was ‘not just to improve rankings but to improve systems and drive reforms to...

By Dilip Cherian Sudhansh Pant’s abrupt move from Rajasthan’s highest babu kursi to a central posting has triggered an immediate surge of speculation and conversation in Jaipur. On paper, it’s a standard reshuffle: a senior IAS officer, 1991 batch, taking charge as Secretary in the...

Eileen Mairena Cunningham When indigenous peoples are mentioned in the context of climate change, my mind immediately goes to images of my grandmother’s roofless and flooded house, destroyed by a Category 5 hurricane and a Category 4 storm in quick succession. I also move beyond...