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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. (Photo: AFP)

Iran's biggest challenge: How to beef up economy

Defeat and deprivation can be dealt with; skilled rulers can use these to build a narrative to lull population into...

9 Jan 2018 12:36 AM IST

A few thousand followers of 20 social organisations across Maharashtra will gather at Shaniwar Wada, Pune, on January 31, 2018, to celebrate the 200th anniversary of defeat of the Peshwas army by the then British Indian Armys Mahar regiment in the battle of Bhima Koregaon. (Photo: YouTube)

Caste factor resurfaces, but has limitations too

The Peshwas were not a major power at the beginning of the 19th century. Their glory ended with the Third Battle of...

9 Jan 2018 12:36 AM IST

Direct money and materiel is only part of it. For years, money from the US gave Pakistan access to global markets at a time of low interest rates and historic liquidity, at least until the Great Recession. (Photo: AP)

The Haqqani dilemma

What are the Haqqanis worth to you, Pakistan? Or put more bluntly, how much pain is Pakistan willing to suffer to hang...

8 Jan 2018 2:08 AM IST

Chinese President Xi Jinping (Photo: AP)

New global order takes shape, instability looms

The globalisation 2.0 , which China claims to be spearheading, is detrimental to human rights, environmental protection...

8 Jan 2018 2:02 AM IST

All Prime Ministers of India, from Jawaharlal Nehru to Narendra Modi, have tried to have closer relations with Pakistan.

Lack of trust shouldn't stall Indo-Pak talks

In December, India's minister for external affairs firmly ruled out even reviving cricket matches between the two...

7 Jan 2018 12:28 AM IST

China has been stonewalling Indias application to NSG, which regulates the international nuclear commerce, on the ground that India is not a signatory to the NPT. (Photo: File/Representational)

How India lost its neighbourhood

The worst casualty has been our relationship with China. There is an unprecedented Chinese build up taking place in...

7 Jan 2018 12:28 AM IST

Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (Photo: AP)

Heading for elections, via Saudi route

It was a surprise comeback since many among us had strived to import a permanent stamp on Mian Sahib's flight from...

6 Jan 2018 12:13 AM IST

GDP stands for Gross Domestic Product.

Be flexible on reforms, ensure pain' is shared

Fiscal 2018-19 is littered with state-level elections followed by the national general election in the first quarter of...

6 Jan 2018 12:13 AM IST

Saudi role in Pak growing

Indeed, the Sharif family owed much to the Saudis for getting them out from Gen Musharraf's prison and hosting them...

5 Jan 2018 12:06 AM IST

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani (Photo: AP)

Persian Spring' rattles Tehran, won't shake it

As in the case of the Arab uprisings, the social media has played a key role in mobilising the demonstrators.

5 Jan 2018 12:06 AM IST

A Rohingya refugee girl looks next to newly arrived refugees who fled to Bangladesh from Myanmar in Ukhiya. (Photo: AFP)

The year of the missing: Where's our humanity?

All genocidal intent in India's new policy is a clerical act of reclassification and the Rohingya go missing.

4 Jan 2018 2:58 AM IST

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani (Photo: AP)

Discontent will not die out in Iran

Tehran, like everyone else, was caught on the hop, and evidently remains uncertain about the gravity of the threat it...

4 Jan 2018 2:58 AM IST