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The vital but delicate task of reviving the Iran deal

Time is running out for the Joe Biden administration, but there is an opportunity for Brussels to take a lead role

More about Big Government than Big Tech

Raman Jit Singh Chima

Spurring a reawakening with National Science Day

Amitabha Bhattacharya Collectively, Indians have a responsibility to take forward the country’s rich and varied legacy of science

The Biden touch to sober, yet substantive ties

Suhasini Haidar The India-U.S. relationship may not change from the course that Trump chose, but China and rights could be issues

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A Bill that facilitates displacement?

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Ideology, facts and the push to the right

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A decade after 9/11, Indian jihad still thrives

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Culture wars over London riots

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Am I still Anna when nobody is watching?

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Jan Lokpal Bill and Parliament

Pakistan: undoing a colonial legacy

Recent amendments to the Frontier Crimes Regulations are being billed as a ‘new deal' for the Federally Administered Tribal Agencies, seen as the epicentre of terrorism.

The Lokpal and the CBI

The ushering in of a Lokpal should in no way dilute the CBI's legal authority or operational effectiveness.

A thousand deaths

Procrastination on mercy petitions is inhumane to death-convicts.

Deepening India-Maldives relations

Skilful management of relations with Maldives is an indicator of the success of India's South Asia policy.

It is a long journey ahead: Kejriwal

'We want to pressure the government and assert our rights as citizens.'

Historic opportunity to be part of new future

Manmohan Singh's visit to Dhaka has the potential to infuse fresh dynamism into the multi-faceted relationship between India and Bangladesh.

Libya poses policy challenge to Asian giants

Change by any possible means is the name of the game in the Middle East and North Africa.

Getting the regional act together

By deciding to work with Russia, China and the Central Asian countries within a regional framework, India has made a significant policy decision.

The miracle that was Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa's path was a unique one. While she never deviated from her faith, she reached out to millions of her special constituency, the deprived and the dying, recognising their faces to be the face of her God.

For a strong and effective Lokpal

The Anna Hazare fast has seen an outpouring of support across the country. The government Lokpal Bill is unacceptable. A fresh Bill is needed for an effective Lokpal.

Messianism versus democracy

The substitution of one man for the people, and the reduction of the people's role merely to being supporters and cheerleaders for one man's actions, is antithetical to democracy.

Ambedkar's way & Anna Hazare's methods

Following Dr. Ambedkar's example, Team Anna should use constitutional methods and enhance people's faith in them. Otherwise it will convey the message that only coercive and unconstitutional methods work.

I'd rather not be Anna

While his means maybe Gandhian, his demands are certainly not.

The cost of the black economy

Much of the black economy in India is like “digging holes and filling them.” One digs a hole during the day and another fills it up at night. The next day, there is zero output but two salaries are paid.

Pakistan's commercial capital on the boil

The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan says Karachi is in the grip of a multisided wave of insecurity driven political, ethnic and sectarian polarisation.

A good Bill that disappoints

The Land Acquisition and Resettlement and Rehabilitation Bill 2011 seems to be driven by a desire to make acquisition for industrialisation and urbanisation easier.

Feral youth and the English riots

The riot has been part of the vocabulary of English politics for centuries. Last week's violence was also a medium for a political message.

Why the West is losing its step in the Arab Spring

Instead of raising the spectre of regime change, the West must learn from its experiences in the Arab Spring and find more effective ways of helping the Syrian people.

The High Court of Judicature at Madras at 150

As the Court, which has many firsts to its credit, enters its 150th year and celebrations are being planned in a big way, it is high time a social audit was done on its performance.

PDS leakages: the plot thickens

While diversion rates still remain high, evidence seems to point to substantial improvements in the public distribution system around the country.

Lessons from the London riots

What the U.K. needs is proactive policing that not only explores preventive measures but also dictates intervention when a crime is committed right before your eyes.

Anti-Maoist war in serious trouble

Fighting the insurgency will need careful planning and sustained innovation. But New Delhi seems to have only big sacks of cash and even bigger words.

Arab spring & U.K. debate on Islam

It is not that prejudice has vanished in the glow of the “Arab spring.” But the liberal discourse on Islam which too hardened, especially after the London bombings, has become less blinkered.

New challenges and opportunities

Russian scholars say India and Russia should display the same level of foresight and leadership they did 40 years ago to inject new dynamism in bilateral ties.

For a new and improved NRHM

The bidirectional relationship between economic development and health justifies greater investment in the health sector.

Investigating the investigation

A court judgment delivered earlier this year holds important lessons for those engaged in investigating and fighting terrorism.

What ails the Mumbai Police

The force today has a system that has been devastated by negligence and indifference. With the focus kept on professionalism, it is possible to overcome the handicaps.

The trail of illicit funds

The inaction of the government in the matter of the multiple revelations relating to black money is for everyone to judge from the chronology of events.

Entente across the border

Recent rounds of bilateral interaction have marked a paradigm shift in India-Bangladesh relations.

Oil payment row and India-Iran ties

As Indian firms line up behind Saudi Arabia and its Gulf partners, their moves are likely to invite Iran's hostility which could easily spill over into the political realm.

Factional feud in the open

The churning among the Maoists has held up the political process in Nepal. An intra-party deal on power-sharing has now complicated inter-party negotiations.

Now begins the era of the Soyuz

With America's shuttle programme winding down, Soyuz will be the world's only lifeline to the International Space Station — at least till 2016.

The dangers of redefining democracy

We have creatively redefined national interest, representation, democracy and corruption to the benefit of vested interests.

Sri Lanka: Tamil hopes and national unity

The sweeping victory of the Tamil National Alliance in local elections in Sri Lanka's North lends a fresh perspective to talks with the government that lie ahead.

Towards a regional solution in Afghanistan

Many observers have suggested that perhaps the best way to seek salvation for Afghanistan's difficulties is to strive to restore that country to its traditional stance of neutrality.

Pakistan: water on the boil again

Water has the potential of becoming a new ‘core issue' of even greater prominence than Kashmir, and calls for urgent attention.

Anders Breivik & Europe's blind right eye

There are important lessons for India in the murderous violence in Norway: lessons it can ignore only at risk to its own survival.

Food Security Bill needs amendments

As it is drafted, the Bill actually deprives people, and the State governments, of existing rights on multiple counts.

The extraordinary icon who matters

To admirers, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is the embodiment of steadfastness. To critics, she is a rigid and impractical politician.

The Indian fine art of faking security

India's post-26/11 police reforms painted stripes on a donkey — and passed it off as a tiger.

Cross-LoC trade and peace-building

Since cross-LoC trade began between Muzaffarabad-Uri and Poonch-Rawalakot, traders have found a way of insulating the process from outside influences with a fair amount of success.

Why U.K. employers prefer foreign workers

Studies show that British employers prefer foreign or immigrant workers to Britons because of their attitude to work.

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