Opinion

If the restrictions are primarily intended to weaken Benjamin Netanyahu before Israel’s October elections, they may prove to be temporary political instruments THIS time, Europe...

IN recent times, when we are witnessing multiple mechanisms of political propaganda influencing social thinking, food habits have also become a tool of divisive...

Selective outrage weakens justice; civilians everywhere deserve equal protection, accountability and human dignity AS I have repeatedly written in my earlier articles and expressed on...

Dr Farhat Rafiq AT 11:30 AM on a May morning, the 500-worker construction site in Ghaziabad goes quiet. Not because the work is done, but...

Emerging Iran-UAE contacts, renewed peace language and calls for a more representative UN together reveal New Delhi’s central advantage: strategic autonomy with practical influence INDIA’s most important achievement at BRICS 2026 was not a single agreement but the creation of diplomatic space among adversaries. New Delhi hosted Russia, China, Iran, the UAE and other major developing powers at a moment when the international system is strained by the Russia-Ukraine war, the Iran conflict, trade tensions and an increasingly confrontational US-China relationship. The summit therefore tested whether BRICS could function as more than an anti-Western political platform. Prime...