Mamata Banerjee has been much more gracious about the Congress rout in three north Indian states than her party TMC, which accused it of suffering with a ‘zamindari’ hangover.
There doesn’t appear to be a single countercultural bone in her body. She doesn’t have even a modicum of that detachedness, that aloofness, which is conflated with coolness.
Biden & Arab rulers are facing questions from within their countries for their extended support of Israel. They can overcome criticism if Netanyahu accepts the two-state solution.
Congress has no natural allies today, only enemies. But even after the opposition leaders have reunited under INDIA, it won't be enough to challenge the BJP in 2024.
The long shadow cast by Orlando Letelier’s murder illuminates how easily the ties between allies can be derailed by misjudgement—and how hard it can be to repair the damage.
Xi’s absence at COP28 was conspicuous, particularly when other prominent world leaders were present, including Narendra Modi, Emmanuel Macron, Giorgia Meloni, and Rishi Sunak.
The irony with PC Alexander was that when Indira Gandhi returned to power in 1980, she handpicked him as Principal Secretary and he became her political adviser, conscience keeper and administrative trouble-shooter.
The 125 APAs include 86 Unilateral APAs (UAPAs) and 39 Bilateral APAs (BAPAs). The total number of APAs since the start of the APA programme has risen to 641, with 506 UAPAs and 135 BAPAs.
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