Nassau County’s ongoing mission to address the opioid addiction crisis is one of the most important and most heart-wrenching issues I contend with as a mother and the ranking member of the Nassau County Legislature’s […]
Financial probe agency’s credibility is at stake Amid the Opposition’s allegation that government agencies such as the Enforcement Directorate (ED) are being misused, the Centre has told the Rajya Sabha that raids carried out by […]
Audacity reflects the social sanction to corruption How else to describe it but as the audacity of the corrupt when a racket promising a Rajya Sabha seat or a governorship for up to Rs 100 […]
Fretting about the current account deficit is warranted; fiscal space must also be reassessed In its latest review of the economy encompassing the period from June till July 10, the Finance Ministry is sanguine about […]
New Delhi can take comfort from likely waiver With the decks being cleared for an India-specific waiver of sanctions under a United States law that imposes punitive action against countries buying weapons from Russia, there […]
With Gotabaya quitting, new leadership should heed people’s aspirations in Sri Lanka Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned at last, but not before keeping the country guessing for two days. In a not-unexpected turn […]
India needs to be well prepared for challenges India is on course to become the world’s most populous country. The ‘World Population Prospects 2022’ report says that India’s population is projected to be 1.429 billion […]
Instead of delivering a smooth Brexit, Boris Johnson leaves Britain worse off than before For a leader who led the Conservative party to an 80-seat majority three years ago with a Thatcher-like charisma, Boris Johnson’s […]
The BJP should not feed the fake news ecosystem to score political points Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s comments about SFI activists, where he forgave those who had vandalized his office in his Lok Sabha constituency, […]
Zubair’s arrest is another instance of the Centre’s characteristic intolerance Mohammed Zubair, co-founder of fact-checking website Alt News, is being made to pay for his role in drawing wide attention to the vile remarks made […]
The death of 50 people, believed to be illegal immigrants, in San Antonio in the USA is the latest in a string of migration tragedies that have left humanity badly shaken. At least 46 bodies […]
“Is there no virtue among us, if there be not, we are in a wretched situation?” – James Madison The bond between the world’s most powerful democracy and the world’s most populous democracy is so […]
Letter to the Editor In the last one week a huge number of young men, mostly non-Muslims have indulged in rough and violent protests across India against the BJP govt.’s new Agnipath Program to recruit […]
Julian Assange deserves freedom, not persecution for investigative journalism The United States’ relentless pursuit of Julian Assange received a fillip after the British Home Secretary, Priti Patel, gave the go-ahead to extradite him to the […]
The Agnipath must be put on hold given the failure to push it as anything but a cost-cutting measure All non-officer appointments to the three wings of the Indian armed forces will be through the […]
Bypassing of due process a dangerous trend The no-holds-barred demolition of the house of Mohammad Javed, the alleged mastermind of Friday’s mob violence in Prayagraj, seems to be an instance of vindictive rather than administrative […]
The Parivar has to overcome distrust to engage with Muslims The RSS chief has struck a conciliatory note by questioning the need to ‘look for a Shivling in every mosque’, that would hopefully defuse the […]
About 10 days ago, PM Narendra Modi had described his government’s eight years in power as a tenure that did not allow Indians to hang their heads in shame. All right-thinking Indians — whether they […]
The Government could have avoided the hate speech issue if the BJP had acted early The Government’s decision to take a stern view of hate speech targeting religious beliefs, to distance itself from comments made […]
A Sense of fear and insecurity after yet another targeted killing in Kashmir is understandable, as is the anger. Yet, it is critical to ensure that the fatal attack in Kulgam on schoolteacher Rajni Bala […]
The shocking murder of singer-politician Sidhu Moosewala underscores the impunity with which gangsters have been operating in Punjab in recent years. Some of them have killed their rivals or have been gunned down by cops, […]
Russian support makes switching of sides difficult India has been hosting recurring waves of diplomats and government officials descending from Washington with the singular purpose of removing Russia from South Block’s bouquet of painstakingly built […]
The U.S. must impose a ban on assault weapons, and expand checks for gun ownership The U.S. once again faced the grim consequences of its unwillingness to tackle gun violence at its source when a […]
Supreme Court ruling on GST Council should guide Centre, states The Supreme Court’s assertion that the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council is not only an avenue for the exercise of cooperative federalism but also […]
Global attention to the slow ethnic cleansing missing The recent brutal murder of two Sikh traders by Islamic State terrorists at Peshawar in the restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province marks another low in the unrelenting saga […]
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