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Broken Chain

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s promise of fast-track courts for paper-leak cases is an acknowledgement that India’s examination crisis can no longer be answered with arrests and assurances alone.

Field Marshal State

There is no officially published change in the numerical position of Pakistan’s Asim Munir in the Warrant of Precedence by virtue of his elevation to the rank of Field Marshal.

Elite Warning

For more than two decades, Vladimir Putin’s compact with Russia’s business elite was straightforward: accumulate wealth, but leave politics to the Kremlin.

The Long Bill

Four years (24 February 2022) after Russian troops crossed into Ukraine, the most revealing battlefield is no longer only the front line near Kharkiv or the trenches in the Donbas.

Border Signals

When politics shifts along a frontier, it is rarely just about ideology. It is usually about presence ~ who shows up, who listens, and who fills the gaps left by a distant state.