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Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (Photo: PTI)

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Why the global reach of a ‘Vishwa Guru’ falls short

What wisdom will this guru who can’t guard India’s own borders and who exports deadly lethal children’s medicines impart to others?

05 Jan 2023 12:00 AM

In this file photo rescue workers clear rubble of a destroyed school after an attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Monday, July 4, 2022. (Photo: AP/PTI)

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Waiting for the dawn after world faced a difficult year

A revolt against the Kremlin was predicted. Some warned of a military mutiny. President Vladimir Putin was reported to be dead or dying

31 Dec 2022 12:00 AM

People protest against executions and detentions in Iran, in front of the Iranian Permanent Mission to the UN in New York City on December 17, 2022. (Photo: AFP)

K.C. Singh | After 2022’s big challenges, looking at 2023 with hope

The year gone by brought war in Ukraine, saw Covid-19 epidemic abate and now turn vengefully on its source, the People’s Republic of China

28 Dec 2022 12:05 AM

The central bank’s decision to lower its forecast for the country’s economic growth from seven per cent to 6.8 per cent, citing global headwinds, shows that all is not well yet. (Photo: PTI)

AA Edit | Promising signs in economy

The RBI governor’s post-policy meeting comments hint that the central government remains focused on inflation

10 Dec 2022 12:15 AM

Saeed Naqvi | Unwounded in midterms, will Biden explore Ukraine peace?

With this ambiguous verdict in hand, Mr Biden doesn't need an endless war in Ukraine to redeem himself

20 Nov 2022 12:10 AM

India’s willingness to do whatever it can to help the peace process, has been stated but then, as common knowledge has it, Mr Putin is the one who must relent. (Photo: PTI)

AA Edit | Can India do more to help end Ukraine war?

Prime Minister Narendra Modi did convey forcefully enough, to Vladimir Putin in Samarkand that “this is not an era of war”

10 Nov 2022 12:10 AM

In early morning pedestrian is silhouetted against sunrise as he walks through the U.S. Flags on the National Mall and past the US Capitol Building in Washington Monday, Nov. 7, 2022, one day before the midterm election will determine the control of the US Congress. (Photo: AP)

K.C. Singh | Dems defy midterms’ rout: Ties with India won’t be hit

For India, the change of balance in the US Congress, total or partial, is unlikely to impact relations with the United States

10 Nov 2022 12:00 AM

K.C. Singh | As world is realigning, India sits on the fence

The world has entered a phase of partial or floating alignments, popularly described as a multi-polar world

01 Nov 2022 12:00 AM

The real problem is Mr Putin may be running out of time as his war machine has been weakening after eight months of engaging with feisty Ukrainians defending their homeland. (Photo: AFP)

AA Edit | Will Putin see reason, stop war in Ukraine?

As Mr Putin hits out from his Kremlin corner, he is fast losing friends

12 Oct 2022 7:55 PM

India had seen, once again, Chinese perfidy in its eastern Ladakh region in April 2020 onwards where serious Chinese transgressions had been engineered across the LAC in Depsang Plains, Hot Springs, Gogra, Pangong Tso and Demchok areas. (Representational Image/AFP)

Kamal Davar | Time to be firm tackling Dragon on LAC standoff & human rights

Both nations, according to these reports, now have between 50,000 to 60,000 troops deployed along the LAC in Ladakh

12 Oct 2022 12:00 AM

Russian President Vladimir Putin on October 9 blamed Ukrainian secret services for the huge blast a day earlier that ripped through Russia's Crimea bridge, which he described as a "terrorist act". (Photo: AFP)

Putin vows more 'severe' attacks after Russian missiles batter Ukraine

The biggest wave of strikes across Ukraine in months killed at least 11 people nationwide

10 Oct 2022 6:50 PM

This year, Durga Puja, the biggest festival for Bengalis, was celebrated with more aplomb than ever since Unesco included “Durga Puja in Kolkata” in its Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity last year. (Photo: PTI)

Patralekha Chatterjee | Festivals need to celebrate inclusion, not just diversity

In a fractured and increasingly polarised society, festivals offer a fantastic opportunity to be inclusive in its broadest sense

07 Oct 2022 12:00 AM

The Moscow-appointed heads of Kherson region Vladimir Saldo and Zaporizhzhia region Yevgeny Balitsky, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Donetsk separatist leader Denis Pushilin and Lugansk separatist leader Leonid Pasechnik react after signing treaties formally annexing four regions of Ukraine Russian troops occupy, at the Kremlin in Moscow on September 30, 2022. (Photo: AFP)

Putin signs treaties annexing Ukrainian regions

The ceremony came 3 days after completion of Kremlin-orchestrated referendums on joining Russia that were dismissed by Kyiv and the West

30 Sep 2022 7:14 PM

A policeman guards at the edge of Red Square in central Moscow on September 29, 2022, as the square is sealed prior to a ceremony of the incorporation of the new territories into Russia. (Photo: AFP)

Kremlin announces Ukraine annexation ceremony for Friday

President Vladimir Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the annexation would be formalised at a ceremony in the Kremlin

29 Sep 2022 5:49 PM

Servicemen of a territorial defence unit train during an exercise in Kryvyj Rih on September 28, 2022, amid the Russia invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by Genya SAVILOV / AFP)

Abhijit Bhattacharyya | Moscow & West must remember history, and scale down race war…

Several questions arise in the context of the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war. Is Russia too big to sustain itself on its own steam?

29 Sep 2022 12:05 AM

Russia prepares to annex occupied Ukraine despite outcry

Pro-Moscow administrations of four occupied regions of southern and eastern Ukraine said that their residents voted to join Russia

28 Sep 2022 3:39 PM

File photo of Russian army soldiers marching during an action in support for the soldiers involved in the military operation in Ukraine. (Photo: AP)

Manish Tewari | What India can do to end the Ukraine war

The world must, therefore, urgently push Russia to negotiate and accept the fact that Ukraine is, after all, a sovereign nation

25 Sep 2022 12:15 AM

Russian President Vladimir Putin. (Photo: AP)

Putin announces partial mobilisation of reservists

President Vladimir Putin says the measure is necessary as his country is fighting the "entire Western military machine"

21 Sep 2022 4:45 PM

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi attends the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, Friday, Sept. 16, 2022. (Photo: AP)

K.C. Singh | Mend Pak ties, keep China in check to raise India heft

As the only democracy in SCO, besides a dysfunctional Pak, India must ensure the group is not hijacked by China to forge an anti-West front

20 Sep 2022 12:00 AM

Ukraine said on Friday it had counted 450 graves at just one burial site near Izyum, which was seized back by Ukrainian forces. (Photo: Twitter

UN wants to send team to probe mass grave in Ukraine's Izyum

Hundreds of graves topped with white crosses and marked with numbers are located in forests outside the recaptured city

16 Sep 2022 4:21 PM

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