Two years ago, a friend and colleague, teaching at a US university, wrote to me asking if one of her doctoral students working on...

If political history could be divided into epochs, Indira Gandhi's began in 1969, when she split the Congress, and ended in 1989, when Rajiv Gandhi lost power.

The ill-will between President Trump and the mainstream liberal media (I will mostly use the term “media” from here on) is well-documented.

For supporters of the Democratic Party (present company included) the election results last November brought a deep sense of foreboding.

The description “tectonic shift” was first used for election results by Union Cabinet minister Ravi Shankar Prasad. It has since gathered currency among pundits and partisans.

Badlands is one of those familiar Americanisms, like ballpark, Wild West and gentrification that feature in our usage more as malapropisms.

On my first visit to Bangladesh as Minister for Asia, I

Much of the world is beset by uncertainty. Regional conflicts and climate change threaten intensified population pressures and migration.

Relations between President Donald Trump and the US press is rocky, to say the least. It began during election campaign. Many

CHINA'S President Xi Jinping has been walking a very delicate tightrope since the inauguration of the new President of the USA who has threatened to launch an economic war with China.

The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in its report released on February 3 detailed the widespread human rights...

It is incredulous that the World Bank, with its expertise on almost anything under the sun, failed to understand through its legal departments that the so-called evidence was all moth-eaten and flimsy.

Rhetoric has come full circle in the dispute over the South China Sea but can the Philippines, the current chair of Asean and a claimant

When US President Donald Trump threatened to ban Muslims during his campaign last year, many people were appalled but few took the threat seriously.

The 4th of February marks the 45th anniversary of the recognition of the People's Republic of Bangladesh by the Nordic countries.

It was the moment the world sat up and started to take notice of the US presidential campaign. Donald Trump had made headlines before, in June 2015, when he had called for a “great, great wall” along the Mexican border.

As expected, US President Donald Trump scrapped the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) by an executive order just after taking over as

What once seemed like a stunt and a fantasy is now real. Donald Trump was sworn in on Friday as the 45th President of the United States of America with his favourite mantra 'America first' and 'Make America Great Again', a veiled warning of exclusion of outsiders in America and protection of American trade and manufacture.

US President Donald J. Trump ascends the US presidency with a dubious record. Several US polls show he enters the presidency with the lowest approval since polls studied this issue. Welcome to governance by mean-spirited tweet. Let us instead dwell on more pleasant matters.

BAN Ki-moon ended his ten years as UN Secretary-General at midnight on New Year's Eve with his last official duty – dropping the ball at New York's Times Square.