Politics

Merkel’s Kindness to Asylum Seekers Reflects a German Soft Spot for Islam

It is an irony of history that the same Germany that had set out to exterminate one group of “Semites,” the Jews, in the...

The RSS-BJP Kinship and Future of Secular India – Kuldip Nayar

The target of the RSS-to have a Hindu Rashtra-may look distant at present. But Modi still has three-and-a-half years to go. Both he and...

US BOMBING OF KUNDUZ KILLS 3 DOCTORS AT MSF HOSPITAL; 30 MISSING

HAMID SHALIZI AND ANDREW MACASKILL KABUL (Reuters) The U.S. military on Saturday acknowledged it could have been responsible for an air strike that hit a hospital...

GETTING KILLED FOR WHAT YOU EAT IN MODI’S INDIA

Even if Modi doesn’t directly support the bigotry and violence of fellow travelers, he’s certainly guilty of condoning and encouraging it with his deafening...

RUSSIAN AIR STRIKES KILL DOZENS OF CIVILIANS IN SYRIA

 RUSSIAN ATTACKS TARGETING SYRIAN REBELS OPPOSED TO ASSAD, NOT ISIS  Reuters DUBAI — Russian airstrikes in Syria had caused civilian casualties while failing to target the hard-line...

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