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India's military options to tackle terror after Pulwama

It has been a week since the ghastly terror attack by Jaish-e-Mohammed, a group based in Pakistan, on a convoy of Indian paramilitary troops left 40 people dead in Pulwama in Jammu and Kashmir.
21 February 2019, 18:00 PM

Boots off the ground

President Donald Trump's patience is apparently on the wane. Disagreeing with the views of some of his generals and strategic advisors, he intends to pull out of the unwinnable 17-year-old Afghan war.
18 February 2019, 18:00 PM

Brexit: Is a debacle in the offing for the UK?

With May 29, 2019—official deadline for Brexit negotiations with the European Union—looming large on the horizon, the UK looks set to face a political crisis not seen in recent history.
16 February 2019, 18:00 PM

Embrace diversity or accept divorce

Two major divorces are in the making in March. The obvious one is Brexit, which officially occurs on March 29. The other is the deadline for the US-China trade negotiations on March 1, when
15 February 2019, 18:00 PM

Curtain down on 16th Lok Sabha but up on Indian poll script

The coming parliamentary polls hung all over the political circles in the Indian capital on the last day of the final session of the outgoing 16th Lok Sabha on February 13.
15 February 2019, 18:00 PM

Looking at some of the dynamics of India's Lok Sabha election

Some historical glimpses shed a very interesting light on the enormous changes that have taken place in India's political landscape
14 February 2019, 18:00 PM

Indian apex court works truce

In the end, it was left to the Indian Supreme Court to bring down the political temperature which shot up furiously following the confrontation between the Mamata Banerjee government in West
8 February 2019, 18:00 PM

Papal visit boosts UAE effort to redefine concepts of tolerance

The United Arab Emirates is projecting itself as a leader of inter-communal and inter-faith harmony with the first ever visit by a Catholic pope to the Gulf and an inter-faith conference that is as much about dialogue as it is about absolute political control.
7 February 2019, 18:00 PM

Venezuelan crisis is more than just a domestic issue

Those who follow global events could not have failed to notice the tragic spectacle unfolding in Venezuela. The Latin American country has been riven by an internal political turmoil recently.
6 February 2019, 18:00 PM

Modi government's last attempt at wooing voters

The impending parliamentary elections was written large on the final budget of the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in its current five-year tenure.
6 February 2019, 18:00 PM

Mamata's return to the street

In the run-up to India's parliamentary elections in April-May, a big political drama is being played out in front of Central Kolkata's
4 February 2019, 18:00 PM

Venezuelans caught in cruel geopolitics

Pundits are busy arguing over which next step suits which geopolitical rival the best in Venezuela, which player has scored the most so far, and who is likely to prevail in this mindless game of geopolitics till the end.
3 February 2019, 18:00 PM

The geopolitics of National Register of Citizens in Assam

India is witnessing the chaotic process of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) unfold in Assam.
2 February 2019, 18:00 PM

Can hearts meet and hands hold in Indian opposition alliance?

The two biggest talking points about the mega rally of anti-Bharatiya Janata Parties organised by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in Kolkata on January 19 were
29 January 2019, 18:00 PM

Mueller investigation and Trump's turbulent new year

For the last couple of years or so, the special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of the possible collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign to influence the 2016 US Presidential Election has been in steady media limelight.
29 January 2019, 18:00 PM

200 Years Of Singapore: Looking back to chart a way forward

The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see. So the late British Prime Minister and famed orator, Winston Churchill, is once supposed to have said.
27 January 2019, 18:00 PM

Priyanka in the Congress poll gambit

The biggest political news in India on January 23 was the formal induction of Priyanka Gandhi Vadra in politics and her appointment in the key post of general secretary of the main opposition
25 January 2019, 18:00 PM

A short history of fake news

Fake news isn't what it used to be. Before President Trump seized and exploited the term, fake news consisted of plain old partisan propaganda, government disinformation, corporate PR and, least appreciated and most widespread, the press lazily acting as stenographers of power.
23 January 2019, 18:00 PM

Dysfunctional superpowers on both sides of the Atlantic

The greatest spectacle in the life of the US president—the annual State of the Union Address before a joint congress—is now uncertain as the continued non-essential-services shutdown of the US government is currently the longest on record at nearly a month.
21 January 2019, 18:00 PM

Alliance signal from ground zero of India's electoral battle

Politics, so goes the old adage, is the art of the possible. More so when it is the election season in India. In the build-up to the parliamentary elections just about
20 January 2019, 18:00 PM