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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.

Everyday Courage

Sometimes a nation’s moral temperature is not taken in Parliament or courtrooms, but on a crowded street, in front of a small shop, during an ordinary quarrel that suddenly becomes a test of conscience.

Rollback Politics

When the United States first declared in 2009 that greenhouse gases endanger public health, it quietly redrew the map of environmental governance.

Talks or conflict?

The indirect talks between the United States and Iran, held in Muscat, Oman on 6 February had been described by both sides as “positive” and “constructive”.