If Russia calls a halt to NATO recruitment in and around Ukraine, indignant expansionists accordingly cry foul. A ritualized dance-like element suffuses these familiar geopolitical maneuvers, which savvy diplomats comprehend and, if allowed, can work out. The highly combustible ingredient is the hysterical media chorus of imminent invasion, sedulously stoked by Western states. Austrian wit Karl Krauss long ago observed that statesmen typically tell lies and then believe them after they read them in the newspapers. That is the supreme danger a stray spark generating a conflagration - and not the objective situation, which can be remedied by old-fashioned diplomacy
February 22, 2022These include five districts from western UP -- Firozabad, Mainpuri, Etah, Kasganj and Hathras. Six districts of the Avadh region, namely Kanpur, Kanpur Dehat, Aurraiya, Kannauj, Etawah and Farrukhabad, will go to polls along with five districts from Bundelkhand region-Jhansi, Jalaun, Lalitpur, Hamirpur and Mahoba.
February 18, 2022Seema and Nidhi said that they shared their grief because they had lost their kin and the Tripathi family was solely responsible for the two murders.
February 10, 2022The iPhone maker opposed the Shenzhen-based Huawei's use of the "MatePod" brand in the earphone category "on the grounds that it was similar to Apple's.
October 24, 2021"The Houthi militia is trying to advance to Bayhan district to lay siege to the south of Marib Province," the source added.
August 6, 2021'The Battle of Longewala is one that every Indian knows about and the saying 'Jo bole so nihaal, sat sri akaal' comes to mind every time we think about it,' PM said.
November 14, 2020“I’m the only thing standing between the American Dream and total anarchy, madness and chaos,” the President told the conservative Council for National Policy, in Arlington, Virginia.
August 23, 2020It shows how the festival of Mamangam was celebrated in the grandest way during that time.
October 4, 2019Shrill rhetoric has political value only if it can either be translated into votes, or so enthuse party workers that they undertake the translation essay with enhanced vigour. Thus while Rahul Gandhi’s presidential address at the Congress’ plenary session may have attracted much media attention and in-house acclaim, the real test will come when key …
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March 20, 2018Since the tweet by President Donald Trump at 4 a.m. on 1 January, blaming Pakistan for consuming US funds and doing nothing to battle the Taliban and Haqqani network, relations between the two countries have only been spiralling downhill. The US has suspended all military assistance to Pakistan, issued threats and yet attempted to cajole …
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January 16, 2018Singer Beyonce Knowles sister Solange Knowles has revealed she has been battling an autonomic disorder for the last five months. Solange, 31, on Wednesday shared on Instagram that she would not be able to perform her scheduled New Year’s Eve Afropunk show in South Africa, reports dailymail.co.uk. “The past five months I have been quietly …
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