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Blinken links Taliban's takeover in Afghanistan to 'serious erosion of human rights'

India disputes Blinken’s reported statement on use of its airfields

At a press briefing here, Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said he would not like to go to media reports because what has been reported was ”slightly different” from what Blinken had told before the Foreign Affairs Committee of the US House of Representatives.

Segregated Studies

Opening the doors for women intent on post-graduate studies is a seemingly reassuring development.

Quad quotient

After America’s ignominious retreat from Afghanistan though, its friends and allies are increasingly sceptical about the USA’s geopolitical staying power, as it were, under President Joe Biden.

Afghan misadventure~I

It is paradoxical that the US which entered Afghanistan with the promise of ensuring a new age of peace and stable democracy is now, though belatedly, arguing as stated by Biden that nation building was not on its cards. The American intervention, far from building an enduring democracy, created a clientelist oligarchy that survived because of widespread corruption despite lack of popular support, as it was in South Vietnam.