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Conservative party leadership contender Liz Truss looks on before the live television debate for the candidates for leadership of the Conservative party, hosted by Channel 4 in London, Friday, July 15, 2022. (AP)

Farrukh Dhondy | With just 2 left in Tories' PM race... Can Brutus be...

If you are reading this anywhere in the world apart from the UK, you will be spared the 'news' about the rivalry between...

23 July 2022 1:31 AM IST

Britains Finance minister Rishi Sunak said that hundreds of thousands of people have already lost their jobs, and sadly in the coming months many more will. (AP Photo)

Shobhaa De | Will Dishy Rishi end up as India's damaad at No. 10?

Even if Dishy Rishi does make it to 10 Downing Street, please, please remember technically, he ain't one of us!

23 July 2022 12:50 AM IST

Alt News co-founder Mohammad Zubair comes out of Tihar Jail after being granted interim bail by the Supreme Court in all FIRs lodged against him in UP, in New Delhi. (PTI)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Let SC act: End arbitrary arrests over...

The BJP and other right-wing entities have taken up cudgels against Mr Zubair, and the secular elements are up in arms...

21 July 2022 11:30 PM IST

Dilip Cherian | Curious moves kead to choice of Himachal's new chief...

The search for his successor has been a convoluted one

21 July 2022 11:28 PM IST

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Is growth in population a ticking bomb or blessing?

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Is growth in population a ticking bomb or...

Managing population through heavy-handed top-down curbs on fertility is an inhuman and ineffective policy

21 July 2022 12:50 AM IST

Shinzo Abe (AP file photo)

Vishnu Prakash | Adieu Abe San! Japan loses a proud visionary, China a...

A nationalist to the core, Abe San wanted Japan to be strong again and stand tall among the comity of nations

21 July 2022 12:45 AM IST

Saeed Naqvi | North vs South: For Muslims, the experience is wholly...

In the North, manufactured daily incidents keep communalism on a continuous simmer and folks huddle and wonder what the...

20 July 2022 7:15 AM IST

This handout picture provided by the Iranian presidency shows the Islamic Republics President Ebrahim Raisi (R) walking alongside Russian President Vladimir Putin in Tehran on July 19, 2022. (Photo by Iranian Presidency / AFP) /

Abhijit Bhattacharyya | Ukraine: What lay behind Russia's unprovoked...

Russian President Vladimir Putin is entirely culpable and can't run away from his avoidable and deplorable decision to...

20 July 2022 7:05 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi with USA President Joe Biden and Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau, at G-7 Summit, in Germany. (PTI Photo)

Aakar Patel | A benign mask for whole world; fangs bared to citizens...

India's government does not want to be recognised abroad for what it is a majoritarian, authoritarian State

19 July 2022 12:07 AM IST

The grandiose Hambantota port project in Sri Lanka, which once had the same bunch of Indian strategic thinkers in a tizzy, hosts no ships and doesnt earn much. China is now pressuring Sri Lankans to service its debt and is seeking to extract some more in lieu of that. (Wikimedia)

Mohan Guruswamy | China's Belt and Road drive was just another...

China is now pressuring Sri Lankans to service its debt and is seeking to extract some more in lieu of that

18 July 2022 11:53 PM IST

Conservative party leadership contender Liz Truss looks on before the live television debate for the candidates for leadership of the Conservative party, hosted by Channel 4 in London, Friday, July 15, 2022. (AP)

Kishwar Desai | In race to elect next UK PM, are women meant to steal...

Some rumours are floating around that a few of these candidates were selected in order to ensure that Liz Truss does not...

17 July 2022 11:55 PM IST

Girls display their arms painted with message Ranil go home referring to Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe at the protest site in Colombo. (AP)

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Keep race, religion out in a Sri Lankan revival...

It's a moot point whether Colombo would have placed itself at Beijing's mercy to this extent if it had not been for the...

17 July 2022 11:31 PM IST