Thank You, Donald Trump! (And you too, Fox News)
30 October 2020
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Opinion
Pompeo-Espar visit to India: China and beyond
29 October 2020
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Opinion
Racism in America: Police Chokehold is Not the Issue
25 June 2020
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Global affairs
Trump is Not Down Yet
13 April 2020
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Opinion
Covid-19 In India: Road ahead for the world’s largest quarantine
2 April 2020
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Global affairs
West First policies expose myths
1 April 2020
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Global affairs
Biden, Sanders, or Trump: US policy towards the Gulf will change regardless
13 March 2020
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Global affairs
Iran and the USA don’t have to be enemies
2 March 2020
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Global affairs
Not a pretty picture
1 March 2020
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Global affairs
Bernie or Bust?
28 February 2020
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Global affairs
Stage set for battle for Delhi
The bugle has been blown for the elections to the Delhi legislative assembly with the Indian Election Commission announcing the poll schedule on January 6.
9 January 2020
Rule of law or rule of the jungle?
International law may not be a major consideration in debates about the US killing of Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani
7 January 2020
US military strikes in Iraq stir regional hornet’s nest
The United States stirred a hornet’s nest that stretches far beyond Iraq when it attacked an Iranian-backed militia on the weekend.
5 January 2020
Developing countries must seize the tech frontier
Rapid technological transformation will be a key feature of the economy well into the future. At the national, regional, and global level, frontier technologies are offering promising new opportunities, but are also introducing new policy challenges.
31 December 2019
Can America be saved?
On December 23, Heidi Sloan, running for US Congress in Texas 25, tweeted (referring to one of Trump’s Presidential Campaign advertisements), “This ad should terrify us. Donald Trump has a movement capable of winning re-election.
30 December 2019
Argentina’s bright young hope
Judging by his appointment of a first-rate economist to his cabinet as Minister of Economy, Argentina’s new president, Alberto Fernández, is off to a good start in confronting his country’s economic problems.
26 December 2019
Okay Boris, you won. Now what?
The results of the recent elections in the United Kingdom took me back to another ghastly political moment.
20 December 2019
Certainty over Brexit, yet uncertainty remains in the Kingdom
One would not expect, least of all in western democracies, to see people taking to the streets immediately after a new prime minister takes office with a landslide victory.
15 December 2019
A little more than just an ‘internal’ issue?
The controversial Citizenship Amendment Bill 2019 (CAB) has been finally passed through both the lower and upper houses of the Indian Parliament this week amidst protests and questions being raised regarding its constitutional validity.
13 December 2019
Riding the wave of technological innovation
Recent economic develop-ments in Bangladesh have been remarkable. Over the past decade, GDP per capita has almost tripled, reaching USD 1,700 in 2018.
9 December 2019
Johnson-Corbyn debate revisits Brexit division
Friday night’s election debate has once again exposed how divided the British nation is. The Sky poll conducted by YouGov shows 52-48 difference between the two main contenders vying for No 10 Downing Street—incumbent Boris Johnson and challenger Jeremy Corbyn.
8 December 2019
As the terrible denouement unfolds
Here’s the awful truth in a nutshell.
6 December 2019
A microcosm of Iran’s domestic problems, port city bears brunt of crackdown
The Iranian port city of Bandar-e-Mahshahr has emerged as the scene of some of the worst violence in Iran’s brutal crackdown on recent anti-government protests.
5 December 2019
Doomsday Clock: It is now two minutes to midnight
The Doomsday Clock was created in 1947 by the Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists at the University of Chicago. Original members of the Board were a group of scientists who worked under the auspices of the Manhattan Project, the secret scheme responsible for developing the first nuclear weapons.
2 December 2019
Global turmoil: Ethics offer a way out of the crisis
Rarely is out-of-the-box thinking needed more than in this era of geopolitical, political and economic turmoil.
26 November 2019
All The President’s Crooks
It’s not exactly breaking news that another accomplice of US President Donald J Trump has been found guilty and is contemplating at jail time. This is something, alas, that has been occurring from time to time for a while.
24 November 2019
India should rethink its decision on the agreement
India on November 4 decided not to join the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), a free trade deal involving the 10 countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Australia, China, South Korea, Japan, and New Zealand.
23 November 2019
A tug of war over who has the longer breath
Mass anti-government protests in several Arab countries are turning into competitions to determine who has the longer breath, the protesters or the government.
22 November 2019
Salvaging international law: The best of bad options
These are uncertain times with trade wars, regional conflicts and increased abuse of human and minority rights pockmarking the transition from a unipolar to a multipolar world.
13 November 2019
Trade liberalisation for development?
The International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank and the World Trade Organisation (WTO), all dominated by rich countries, have long promoted trade liberalisation as a “win-win” solution for “all people—rich and poor—and all countries—developed and developing countries”, arguing that “the gains are large enough to enable compensation to be provided to the losers”.
8 November 2019