Opinion

Ajit Ranade India’s Right to Information (RTI) Act came into force on 12 October 2005. It is one the strongest transparency laws in the world. It essentially says that if any information cannot be denied to a lawmaker, then it cannot be denied to any...

By Melvin Durai   I recently had my annual physical, which was really my annual blood analysis. The nurse practitioner who conducted the check-up barely examined me physically. What she mostly did was review the data from a laboratory’s analysis of my blood. I had...

By Maciej Artur Gaca   I n the past three years, both the European Union and India have been forced to redefine what “strategic autonomy” actually means. For Europe, the shock came from the pandemic, Russia’s war against Ukraine, and the deep realization that its...

By Bruno Surdel   Europe in 2025 has faced a complex puzzle: how to maintain pressure on Moscow while responding to unpredictable US–Russia diplomacy under President Donald Trump. Recall, the high-stakes Trump–Putin summit in Anchorage in mid-August, framed as a reset but yielding little clarity,...

By Joseph H Davis What are we to make of gold and US stocks, especially tech-heavy indices, recently hitting record highs around the same time? Traditionally, gold surges when equities correct, but this time, both have risen together, defying conventional wisdom. Faced with what look...

Shivaji Sarkar The New York mayoral election is being watched far beyond city limits. New York is not just the largest city in the United States; it is a cultural and financial power centre whose policy choices often ripple across national politics. The contest has...

Rakesh Mohan & Janak Raj Efforts to mitigate climate change have largely focused on the shift away from fossil fuels in energy production. As a result, most climate-finance assessments have studied the costs of such a transition and determined that large investments are required to...

By Dhurjati Mukherjee Elections are a continuing phase in Indian politics and are held as a process of legitimization of the political power to be acquired. In this scenario, for safeguarding the core values of a free and fair election, it is important to have...

By Malay Mishra PM Modi’s inexplicable absence from the ASEAN and EAS Summits in Malaysia (Oct 26-29), particularly in view of the rapidly evolving global relations in a multipolar world, has been viewed as a matter of concern among foreign policy analysts as a step-back...

By Bhabani Shankar Nayak As the dust of the recently concluded mayoral election settles in New York’s political consciousness, a new dawn begins. Red babies are once again in the streets of Harlem, and it is now confirmed that thirty-four-year-old Zohran Kwame Mamdani is the...