Imran Khan ought to have been discredited by now. But he remains Pakistan’s most charismatic politician—and confident he can capitalise on the economic chaos in the election.
Rahul Gandhi's attack on Modi for his perceived collusion with Adani brought out BJP's big guns in Parliament. After a long time, BJP was responding to a narrative set by Congress.
Is this a seminal moment in Pakistan’s long-term decline? Ten days of intense negotiations with a visiting team from the International Monetary Fund (IMF)...
I was there looking for trouble to report. And in that awful fortnight, when Indira Gandhi decided to force an election nobody wanted in Assam, you didn’t have to go looking for trouble.
As the country embraces the new Rahul Gandhi after the Bharat Jodo Yatra, the Congress leader cannot but embrace the challenge of practising politics in these dark times.
Muslim personal laws are, by nature, discriminatory towards women. While the Muslim Women Act 2019 was one step forward, now there's a need to codify personal laws.
Indian assistance to Turkey and Syria following earthquakes is part of the country’s tradition of providing humanitarian assistance without expecting returns or following a quid-pro-quo policy.
The world watched aghast as police armed with tasers, tear-gas masks—and in one case backed up by snipers—arrested hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters at universities across the United States.
Germany’s erstwhile Christian Democratic Union govt, led by Angela Merkel, prevented sale of small arms to police forces in states they perceived had ‘bad human rights record’.
A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.
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