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Friday, January 2, 2026

Afghan Battle: The US losing lives but for what?

If the latest U.S. soldier just killed in Afghanistan, as yet unidentified, was married, I can’t help but wonder what U.S. officials are going...

‘Sham marriages’: Europe’s strict laws destroying ‘Genuine’ families

Apostolos Andrikopoulos | Why do you want to marry a Nigerian?”, a visa officer at a European embassy in Nigeria asked Helen while her partner...

Handling school education and economy: Lessons from Finland – II

Opinion | Here, to understand the role of school and its link with social progress, one is reminded of the words of the great American...

Has democracy died in India?

Opinion | Plato once said, “Your Silence Gives Consent.” An intellectual 2400 years ago knew this but Indians have only come to realise it today....

Historic Turk-Soviet conflict in Eastern Mediterranean: Libya pays price

Opinion | Libya’s call seeking military assistance from Turkey and the latter’s prompt announcement on Thursday of its readiness to meet the request as early as next...

Handling school education and economy: Lessons from Finland – I

Opinion | At the time of the fall of the USSR or Soviet Union, Finland was struggling with its deep economic growth issues, but in...

US Military education in Pakistan: A strategic asset

Opinion | With increasing strategic competition among the world’s most powerful states, both global and regional powers have been realigning their foreign and strategic policies....

Bhutto & Nawaz: A Barrister from London & Pehalwan from Bholu ka Akhara

Opinion | Bhutto versus Sharif The 1965 war proved to be disastrous for Viceroy-III of Pakistan (Ghulam Muhammad Viceroy-I, Iskander Mirza Viceroy-II). Ayub Khan’s dashing foreign...

Forget economy, India under Modi is home to contentious identity politics

Opinion | India has always enjoyed the status of the world’s largest democracy, it was the country which laid its foundation on secular basis and...

India’s draconian Citizenship Law: Sinister move to create Hindu Rashtraya

Opinion | West Bengal, Assam, Tripura and some other states in India’s North East were a simmering cauldron against a compilation of a so-called National...

Right to Food – A right being relentlessly abused

Opinion | The increasing use of the judicial procedure for public interest litigation (PIL), in the recent past, has secured the rights of disadvantaged classes...

Why Modi does not want Peace in Afghanistan?

The Modi government’s approach to the transition in Afghanistan bears an uncanny resemblance to the situation thirty years ago, in end-1989. A great power that...
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