Opinion

By Melvin Durai I’ve often wondered whether the way we treat people at different ages makes any sense scientifically. In many countries, you become an adult at age 18. That’s when you can vote, sign your name to a legally binding contract, and declare your...

By Janine R. Wedel   Corruption may simply be a way of life for US President Donald Trump, but it is the defining issue of his presidency. From doling out pardons and policies in exchange for cash donations or favours to encouraging foreign governments and...

By Dhurjati Mukherjee India’s exports have witnessed a slide in most sectors, as per latest reports, in view of the current geopolitical situation and the pressure of US tariffs. The fault-lines have widened with the rupee falling to its lowest value while exporters, especially small...

By Shlomo Ben-Ami US President Donald Trump is probably not even aware of John Maynard Keynes’s 1919 book The Economic Consequences of the Peace, which cautioned that the harsh demands imposed on Germany after World War I – with their “unjust and unworkable economic basis”...

India is in a gold loop. Swiss refineries and Indian consumers are weakening the rupee. The country’s import appetite now threatens its macroeconomic stability. India’s external vulnerabili ty widens with gold, gadgets and a slipping rupee. The newly ratified India–EFTA Trade and Economic Partnership Agreement...

The most shocking feature of US President Donald Trump’s 28-point peace plan for Ukraine is not its explicit and extreme bias toward Russia, exemplified by the recognition of Russian sovereignty over occupied (and even unoccupied) Ukrainian territory and the diktat to downsize Ukraine’s military radically....

A new wave of radicalisation amongst people, mostly the young generation, frustrated and outraged by current trends in politics and society, is raising its ugly head. India’s phase of counterterror strategy must shift from containment to prevention. According to political analysts, radicals must be treated...

This month’s G20 Summit in Johannesburg marked several his toric firsts. For starters, it was the group’s first-ever summit in Africa, and the first to include the African Union as a full-fledged member. It also set less encouraging precedents: it was the first meeting boycotted...

By DK Giri   The 20th G-20 meeting in the South African capital was marked by quite a few significant developments as well as a departure from its tradition: that was the leaders’ Declaration issued after the Summit. It was overshadowed and was almost at...

By Chandra Bhusan   Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva had declared the 30th Conference of Parties (COP30) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) as the “COP of truth”. And truth, indeed, was unmistakable in Belém. The meeting made it clear...