
USCIRF Report is Not Credible
It fails to document even a single case of victimization The conclusion of the recently released USCIRF 2022 annual report that India be designated as a ‘Country of Particular Concern’ — in the company of Afghanistan, China, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and North Korea — is not only preposterous but also laughable....
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Petitions and Gyanvapi and Eidgah mosques
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Head held high
17 May 2022 | Pioneer -
India’s model
17 May 2022 | Pioneer -
PM’s visit to renew the cultural bond
17 May 2022 | Rishi Gupta -
India’s top cricket body, the BCCI, is not yet taxed
17 May 2022 | Shshank Saurav -
INDIA SLIPS ON FREEDOM OF PRESS INDEX
17 May 2022 | Brijender Singh Panwar -
Food politics hits subsidy reforms
17 May 2022 | Uttam Gupta

Climate resilience: $94 trillion investment at stake
Nobody can prevent climate change but the world cannot also plunge into investing billions of dollars down an abyss Amid rising disaster risk threats to infrastructure, the world plans massive investments of $94 trillion for disaster resilience in the India-initiated Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI). The catch line is what the...

What's Wrong with the Philippines?
Pact between Marcos, Duterte families shaped the vote Bongbong' Marcos didn't just win the presidential election in the Philippines this week. He won it by a two-to-one landslide, despite the fact that he is the extremely entitled son of a former president who stole at least ten billion dollars and a...

Leveraging digitech for popularisng science
Scientific temper can be imparted in society only if we deliver science to each one of them. It is not an easy task Contemporary society is built on materials of science. But unless the common man understands what the scientists discover in our laboratories, science becomes meaningless. Communicating science to the...

Going backwards
The Gyanvapi complex video survey and subsequent unrest are issues best avoided A survey of part of the Kashi Vishwanath temple Gyanvapi mosque complex in Varanasi is underway. It began on Friday as per a court’s order and quickly ran into a controversy. The Anjuman Intezamia Masjid Committee, which manages the...

Diluted ethos
The Congress seems to have abandoned its core philosophy; it’s emulating others The Congress has to find its lost creed to revive itself. It may have given ground to the BJP nationally. It may be a junior partner in alliance Governments in some States. What cannot be denied, however, is its...

New prospects in India-Nepal ties
The bonhomie between the neighbours was re-established when Nepalese Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba came here in April Nepalese Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba concluded a three-day visit to India on April 3, 2022. He arrived in India with a 25-member delegation on his maiden overseas visit after assuming office in...

Sinn Fein a game changer in Northern Ireland
It is very clear that Sinn Fein’s victory will not push for the union of Northern Ireland with the Republic of Ireland at once, but it has started the process. Britain’s future measures towards this part of its territory may be more cautious in the days to come. Politically speaking,...