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About Western pots and Indian kettles

Experienced diplomats and intelligence officials know that when several powerful countries target a developing country by making allegations one after the other, they are often merely trying to weaken the resistance of the country trying to act in independent ways in international affairs.

Massing of education

While the terms ‘mass or universal elementary education’ and ‘higher education’ have been in global vogue for about the preceding three centuries, ‘mass higher education’ is new and certainly a postWWII idea.

Forthcoming budget to focus on growth, says Sitharaman

Speaking at an event organized by the Brookings Institute in Washington, during the course of her five-day US visit, the Finance Minister in a conversation with Cornell University's Eswar Prasad, said on Tuesday that the focus of the forthcoming Union Budget would be on growth priority.

N. Korea fires ballistic missile over Japan for first time since 2017

North Korea on Tuesday fired an intermediate-range ballistic missile over Japan for the first time in five years, marking its fifth launch in 10 days. In response, the air forces of South Korea and the US conducted a strike drill Tuesday afternoon as a show of force.

A new President’s first-lady woes

The US Congress and President Joe Biden, the apparent targets of Yoon’s vulgar words, do not seem to care. Instead, Yoon effectively proclaimed war with the press and the opposition by blaming them.

As Europe flirts with fascism

The segment of the electorate that approves of this variant of nationalism sees little reason to back recent converts to the cause rather than long-standing racists. Europe may not be headed where the economic collapse and political bankruptcy of the 1920s and 1930s took it, but what the immediate future holds is still unpleasant to contemplate.