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India’s Left is now trapped in a political Jurassic Park

13 Aug 2019

A joke surfaced on social media after the 2019 Lok Sabha polls. A black-and-white photograph featuring that ultimate jewel of Bengali romantic films, Uttam Kumar with Suchitra Sen. She said,...

London climate change protesters daub Brazilian embassy blood red

13 Aug 2019

Climate change protesters threw red paint onto the Brazilian embassy in London on Tuesday to demonstrate against damage to the Amazon rainforest and what they described as violence against indigenous...

It’s hard to predict what may happen once parliament returns

12 Aug 2019

Asif Hameed, The Independent The temperature has been rising over Brexit. Dominic Cummings, the UK prime minister’s special adviser, has indicated that even if the government loses an autumn confidence...

Plan to boost science is Johnson’s token offering amidst Brexit rage

10 Aug 2019

Mike Galsworthy, The Independent Boris Johnson has made his long-overdue pitch to the world of science, and it is a lightweight, barely formed beast which counterbalances the onrushing Brexit damage...

Congress in a bind

10 Aug 2019

The Congress ship has been rudderless for months, after Rahul Gandhi offered his resignation, accepting moral responsibility for the party’s dismal performance in the Lok Sabha elections. That it is...

Tiff with China could end up burning Trump’s reelection bid

09 Aug 2019

Don Lee, Tribune News Service Shortly before igniting a new round in his trade war with China, President Donald Trump last week accused Beijing of trying to stall talks until...

World warned: change now or endanger food and climate

08 Aug 2019

Humanity faces increasingly painful trade-offs between food security and rising temperatures within decades unless it curbs emissions and stops unsustainable farming and deforestation, a landmark climate assessment said on Thursday....

The Tories are flinging UK into a debt-laden Brexit calamity

07 Aug 2019

Margaret Beckett, The Independent On September 15, 2008, when Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy, it marked the beginning of the global financial crisis. Right now, we are hurtling towards...

UN Relief and Works Agency must continue its work

04 Aug 2019

UNRWA, the UN agency providing for Palestinian refugees has always had a precarious existence because Israel and its allies have insisted the refugees must be integrated by host countries and...

Angela Merkel, Narendra Modi share a pretty good chemistry