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Hundred Years After
One hundred years after World War I ended, the saddest thought on Armistice Day must be the almost relentless danger of wars and extremism that have threatened the world’s peace and prosperity. Storm-centres dot the world of 2018 and much as the leaders of Europe and the US commemorated the fallen on November 11 ~ …
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November 13, 2018 -
What US elections mean to India
The mid-term election results in the United States this week show the end of one-party rule as the Democrats have recaptured the House of Representatives. All 435 seats in the House of Representatives, 35 of the 100 seats in the Senate and 36 of the 50 Governors were up for election. Both sides claimed victory. …
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November 11, 2018 -
USA: A time to build bridges
As one of the most talked about and, perhaps, controversial US Midterm Elections comes to an end, the US, as a nation, remains where it was before the election started. That is at a crossroads, where the only good outcome would be for the two parties – Democrats and Republicans – to come together, talk …
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November 9, 2018 -
Information Disorder
A huge ruckus has cropped up in recent times, about how social media has played a damaging role in the US elections and adversely influenced public opinion in other countries. Social media and technology giants, based in Silicon Valley, are now facing intense global scrutiny. Given its unbridled power, social media has helped fuel the …
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November 3, 2018 -
Demand for division of UP loses steam in 2017 Assembly polls
Once a hot issue to lure voters, division of Uttar Pradesh no longer finds favour with key political parties this time round. Promises to carve out Harit Pradesh (western UP), Poorvanchal (eastern UP), Bundelkhand and Awadh have been pushed to the back burner with no party pushing for division of the state. Bahujan Samaj Party …
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February 9, 2017 -
Demand for division of UP loses steam in 2017 Assembly polls
Once a hot issue to lure voters, division of Uttar Pradesh no longer finds favour with key political parties this time round. Promises to carve out Harit Pradesh (western UP), Poorvanchal (eastern UP), Bundelkhand and Awadh have been pushed to the back burner with no party pushing for division of the state. Bahujan Samaj Party …
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February 9, 2017 -
Mexico slams ‘threats’ against investors
Mexico's economy ministry, in an apparent reference to US President-elect Donald Trump, has rejected any threats made to deter companies from investing in the country. Trump threatened this week to slap import tariffs on US automaker General Motors for importing cars it makes in Mexico and Japan's Toyota for planning a new factory in the …
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January 7, 2017 -
Putin’s remarks on Clinton defeat ‘so true’: Trump
US President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday said Russian President Vladimir Putin's remarks that the Democrats are looking elsewhere for their defeat in the elections were "so true". "Vladimir Putin said today about Hillary and Dems: "In my opinion, it is humiliating. One must be able to lose with dignity." So true!" Trump tweeted. At his …
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December 24, 2016 -
Trump and the second War of Independence
The past few days I watched over 60 episodes of Donald Trump’s hit reality TV show ‘Apprentice’, to get insights into the man who achieved the unthinkable: elected leader of the world’s most powerful democracy without ever having held public office. ‘Apprentice’ set in New York revealed why Trump arouses extremes of opinion: he came …
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November 23, 2016 -
Trump and America’s middle class
Why the surprise? Two dire candidates ran the most clueless US presidential campaigns in modern history and, as in any badly played game, one of them eventually had to stumble into the winner’s circle. Donald Trump kept himself clinically detached from concerns about mere facts while Hillary Clinton remained regally detached from the interests of …
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November 22, 2016 -
Asia-Pacific summit closes with call for free trade
Leaders of 21 Asia-Pacific nations ended their annual summit Sunday with a call to resist protectionism amid signs of increased free-trade skepticism, highlighted by the victory of Donald Trump in the US presidential election. The Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum also closed with a joint pledge to work toward a sweeping new free trade agreement …
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November 21, 2016 -
When truth loses relevance…
So here we are again, scratching our heads over how everybody got the US elections so wrong, and pondering a future with a narcissistic joker like Donald Trump as the commander-in-chief of the most powerful military on the globe. My early reaction was: stop the world, I want to get off! But on reflection, we’ve …
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November 19, 2016 -
Employees are scared for their safety after Trump’s win: Nooyi
PepsiCo’s India-born CEO Indra Nooyi has said Hillary Clinton’s defeat in the elections has left her daughters, gay workers, employees and the non-whites devasted as there was “serious concern” among them about their safety in the US with Donald Trump as president. “Do you have a box of tissues here,” Nooyi, a staunch Clinton supporter, …
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November 15, 2016 -
It’s not time to give up
The worst mistake the centre left across the world could make now is to confuse what happened last Tuesday with the inevitable.
November 14, 2016 -
End of a long road for Hillary
Last Tuesday, the US Democratic Presidential nominee Hillary Clinton conceded defeat to her rival Donald Trumph and with that ended her political career of two decades. Hillary has been in public life for more than 25 years as the First lady of Arkansas, First Lady of the USA for eight years, Senator of New York …
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November 12, 2016 -
Is unthinkable verdict beginning of the end?
It’s official. The unthinkable has actually happened. Yes, of course, I am talking about the upset win of Donald Trump in one of America’s most dramatic presidential elections ever. Even as the world blinks in disbelief, the unlikely winner prepares for his entry into the White House as the 45th President of the world’s only …
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November 12, 2016 -
The improbable president
An 18-month long, bitter and dispiriting campaign for the US Presidency finally ended in the wee hours of Wednesday, November 9, in a stunning upset sure to have reverberations around the entire world. Donald J. Trump, the real-estate billionaire and former reality TV-star, rode the sense of frustration and disempowerment of the common man — …
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November 12, 2016