Unfinished Promise
The horror of a particularly brutal sexual assault in Bihar's Begusarai has once again provoked national outrage and revived memories of the crime that shook Delhi and India in December 2012. Such comparisons are understandable.
The horror of a particularly brutal sexual assault in Bihar's Begusarai has once again provoked national outrage and revived memories of the crime that shook Delhi and India in December 2012. Such comparisons are understandable.
The resignation of British Prime Minister Keir Starmer less than two years after leading Labour to a commanding parliamentary majority is not just a political fall.
The vision of Viksit Bharat@2047 dreaming to transform India into a developed nation by the centenary of its independence is very often dominated by and confined to economic growth, infrastructure expansion, technological advancement, and global leadership.
The 21st century is increasingly b eing described as the Indian Ocean Century. As the global economic centre of gravity shifts from the Atlantic to Asia, the vast maritime region stretching from the eastern coast of Africa to the western Pacific has emerged as the world's busiest and most strategically important sea space.
When Home Minister Amit Shah directed the commission formed on “Demographic Change” to study the phenomenon in India’s borderlands, he did not speak in the cautious language of policy briefs.
For quite some time, poverty in developing nations was measured in terms of the proportion of people who couldn’t spend even one dollar in a day.
Assembly election outcomes often serve as harbingers for shifts in national political landscapes. The Congress party's resounding victory in Telangana's 2023 state elections stands as a testament to this, sparking debates on whether it can replicate this success in the Lok Sabha elections.
As Andhra Pradesh gears up to vote in the fourth phase of the general election for the simultaneous state assembly and Lok Sabha elections, the collective frustration of its educated youth echoes across the land.
Israel’s military offensive in Gaza in response to Hamas’s October 7 attacks on southern Israel, in which more than 34,500 Palestinians have been killed and 77,700 injured, the majority of whom are women and children, and more than 70 per cent of the Palestinian territory has been reduced to rubble, has exposed the hypocrisy and double standards of the West led by the US, which always champions the cause of human rights and international law.
Iran’s leadership has been a direct beneficiary of the months-long war in Gaza. With every missile that Israel fires on Gaza, every US veto of a UN Security Council ceasefire resolution, and every arrest of an anti-war protester on American university campuses, Iran’s rejection of the US-dominated world order gains more credibility in the Muslim world.
