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Chinese President Xi Jinping, Myanmar President Win Myint and State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi at a ceremony in Nayi Pyi Taw marking the 70th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two nations.

Myanmar’s growing dependence on China

It doesn’t have many friendly nations to help it balance ties with Beijing

Untapped soft power

Reporters at the World Health Organisation headquarters in Geneva on January 22, 2020.

WHO’s unexplained hesitancy

R. Prasad At a time of panic, the WHO is releasing information on the coronavirus in dribs and drabs

The right to protest in a free society

Rajeev Bhargava In a democracy, people participate politically not only during but between elections

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Behind the rage, Iranians dream of democracy

The many structural flaws in India’s higher education system

The neglected foot soldiers of a liberalised economy

Rape, impunity and state of denial

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The evolution of Britain’s terror timeline

A critique of China, not Pakistan

Setting the clock back on intersex human rights

The Transgender Persons Bill does not distinguish between transgender and intersex persons

Headwinds after a hard-line approach

With Xi Jinping and the Communist Party facing various pressures, Beijing could be tempted to deflect the attention

Creating an Indo-Pak. trade corridor through Punjab

A free trade area can tap into the idea of punjabiyat

Bigger is not necessarily better

Policies aimed solely at economic growth may fail to address more structural issues

The dubious legal case for an NRIC

The provisions that empower the government to carry out such an exercise smack of arbitrariness

In telecom, time to send the right signals

The government needs to take bold action like it did in 1999; it is critical to have multiple players

Battling anti-microbial resistance

India must accelerate implementation of its National Action Plan on anti-microbial resistance

The fountainhead of India’s economic vitality

The Modi government has restored the social fabric of trust that had eroded in the UPA years

Making Air India’s disinvestment work

The government needs to totally exit the carrier, allowing the acquirer full freedom to transform the embattled airline

Shifting sands in Andhra Pradesh: On Jaganmohan Reddy government’s attempt to regulate sand mining

Scrapping the free sand policy of the previous government, which is said to have boosted the mining mafia, the Jaganmohan Reddy government is attempting to regulate sand mining with a new policy. While industry and environmental activists have largely welcomed it, there are some concerns, reports Appaji Reddem

Getting organ donation to tick again

Addressing the trust gap and inequality that are impacting family consent for organ donation is crucial

Should life convicts be denied remission?

No one should be denied the benefit, but proof of reform and sound reasoning are needed

Overcoming dogma

The new foreign policies of the Modi government grew out of the challenges of change

Not nine, but twelve lives

Reporting on Douglas Devananda, who has faced a dozen assassination attempts

Not as you say, but as you do

India will now find it difficult to tough-talk leaders in the neighbourhood, all with strong mandates of their own

India’s food basket must be enlarged

Agrobiodiversity can help improve the country’s poor ranking in the Global Hunger Index

Gubernatorial restructuring

The appointment and tenure of Governors need to undergo radical reform

Donald Trump, the disruptor

Taking stock of the President’s performance eleven months before the U.S. goes to polls

A blow to disclosure norms

The apex court’s recent verdict makes several categories of information inaccessible to the public under RTI

Stubble burning is not the only culprit

A solution to Delhi’s air pollution problem must look at farmers’ economic conditions, science and policy change

Tragicomedy in Maharashtra

Recent events will have long-term implications for the BJP as well as the future of democracy

Negotiating the faultlines

Recent developments in #MeToo show that new methods of justice delivery cannot eschew the old tenets of ethics

The many faces of Pakistani Punjab’s militancy

Anti-India groups have selectively interpreted history to gain legitimacy among residents in the area

Putting back the ‘national’ in the Jallianwala Bagh trust

The Central government has reasons to recast the way the memorial and its trust are run — not as a political fiefdom

The misadventure of a new citizenship regime

The rationale for a nationwide register of citizens, its feasibility, and, above all, its moral legitimacy, are questionable

What’s wrong with deep humiliation

A civilised society cannot allow maltreatment that involves seeing and treating people as sub-human

Manipulating information to perpetuate power

Is India becoming an informational autocracy?

Preventing political coalitions of convenience

A legal framework can help deal with post-poll alliances

Helping 10-year-olds to read by 2030

India has been successful in increasing access to school, but now the focus must shift to quality

An ill-advised proposal

Merging Assam Rifles with ITBP will impinge on national security and affect the morale of the force

Vedantic attachment and Islamic idolatry

The Babri Masjid dispute reveals the dichotomy between religious theory and practice

The broken promise of decent and fair wages

The draft rules to the Wages Act, a law expected to provide economic and social justice, will only exploit workers further

Hungry tides of the Sundarbans: How the rising seas create environmental migrants

Residents of Ghoramara are being forced to migrate as the small island is slowly being submerged by the sea. Now environment experts warn that the neighbouring islands of Ganga Sagar and Mousuni are facing a similar fate. Shiv Sahay Singh reports on life on the fragile islands of the Sundarbans

No light at the end of the Brexit deadlock

Ahead of a second general election since the referendum, the clashing parties are drifting further apart in their positions

At an inflection point

Mozambique’s warring groups need to embark on a path to stability following disputed poll results

Multi-party democracy in miniature

Parliament is a good place to observe the country’s politics in a distilled form

Should we do away with subsidies for higher education?

Inclusiveness and equity are very important characteristics of a good public institution.

The whiff of a new Arab Spring in West Asia?

The 2011 experience does not provide cause for optimism that spontaneous protests in Lebanon, Iraq can be sustained

The myths around free trade agreements

FTAs can ensure market access to only the right quality products at competitive prices

An inexplicable withdrawal

The government has ignored risks to the Gandhis’ lives while withdrawing SPG cover

JNU, truly national

The institution is a microcosm of India, where the poorest and the brightest arrive to chase their ambitions.

In variance with the official growth story

Surveys, including the recently leaked one on consumer expenditure, point to the economy’s dire state

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