Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has no intention of being drawn into another attritional war with Hezbollah. His commanders they are unlikely to win.
The party had painted over its Marxist red with the colours of Sinhala ethnic nationalism. Tamils and Muslims were consigned to the margins of the JVP’s politics and cultural imagination.
Does the debate change the opinions of voters as it famously did in 1960? The answer is about the changing role of image in American politics, not about the ideas of the candidates.
Mass immigration built the multi-ethnic societies that powered an unprecedented period of global prosperity. That era could be one of the things bin Laden’s jihadists demolished.
Twenty-five years on, India is debating whether the producers of a Netflix series should have mentioned the Hindu pseudonyms used by IC814 hijackers. The inchoate rage hides painful national wounds.
For criminal cartels of all kinds, the casino cities on China’s peripheries offer security and immunity. In Kings Romans Casino, prison-like dormitories house the cyber-slaves.
Across the world, though, organised crime cartels are continuing to use free, easily available tech tools, and the patience of some governments is starting to run out.
Earlier this week, gangs of dacoits operating in the badlands between the Koh-i Sulaiman mountains, the Indus and the Cholistan desert, ambushed and killed 12 police officers.
There’s no telling if the suspect held for the Kolkata case is guilty, but the Lodha case reveals the criminal justice system just doesn’t care about the truth.
Two questions are pertinent: Why does the Trump administration keep making the same mistakes on the peace proposal? And what does a hurried peace plan mean on the ground?
While global corporations setting up GCCs in India continue to express confidence in availability of skilled AI engineers, the panel argued that India’s real challenge lies elsewhere.
Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.
In the eyes of left liberal journalists, Muslims dont have any agency or accountability. They can be racist. They can vote on religion and more so drive away Hindus from the valley on religious grounds. Rape, murder, forceful appropriation of property are all excusable.
What the valley needs is a Truth and Reconciliation commission that brings to account the wrongs done. At independence India chose to bring land laws to address oppression by land holder castes and brought reservation to reverse the wrongs. Something similar needs to be done in the valley, where there should be reservation for Hindus. The majority population needs to be reformed to be tolerant at levels appropriate for the modern world. Then normalcy can be achieved.
In the eyes of left liberal journalists, Muslims dont have any agency or accountability. They can be racist. They can vote on religion and more so drive away Hindus from the valley on religious grounds. Rape, murder, forceful appropriation of property are all excusable.
What the valley needs is a Truth and Reconciliation commission that brings to account the wrongs done. At independence India chose to bring land laws to address oppression by land holder castes and brought reservation to reverse the wrongs. Something similar needs to be done in the valley, where there should be reservation for Hindus. The majority population needs to be reformed to be tolerant at levels appropriate for the modern world. Then normalcy can be achieved.