In healthy democracies, allegations will be argued over. They shouldn’t be subject to a total niqab being drawn over them
28 Jan 2023 12:05 AM
The ceasefire as well aa Putin renewing his call for peace talks might suggest that 11 months of the war is telling on the aggressor Russia
07 Jan 2023 12:15 AM
The inflation crisis is called the cost-of-living (CoL) crisis as the price of everything is going up by leaps and bounds
24 Dec 2022 12:00 AM
Russia said that “at the request of PM Modi, President Putin gave a fundamental assessments of Russia’s line on the Ukrainian direction”
16 Dec 2022 9:39 PM
Trump was the chief culprit in retarding global climate change agenda by withdrawing the US from the Paris Agreement on climate change
18 Nov 2022 11:39 AM
Prime Minister Narendra Modi did convey forcefully enough, to Vladimir Putin in Samarkand that “this is not an era of war”
10 Nov 2022 12:10 AM
The world has entered a phase of partial or floating alignments, popularly described as a multi-polar world
01 Nov 2022 12:00 AM
As Mr Putin hits out from his Kremlin corner, he is fast losing friends
12 Oct 2022 7:55 PM
The biggest wave of strikes across Ukraine in months killed at least 11 people nationwide
10 Oct 2022 6:50 PM
During this testy phase of international relations, all nations, big or small or intermediate, are practising realpolitik
05 Oct 2022 12:00 AM
The ceremony came 3 days after completion of Kremlin-orchestrated referendums on joining Russia that were dismissed by Kyiv and the West
30 Sep 2022 7:14 PM
President Vladimir Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the annexation would be formalised at a ceremony in the Kremlin
29 Sep 2022 5:49 PM
President Vladimir Putin says the measure is necessary as his country is fighting the "entire Western military machine"
21 Sep 2022 4:45 PM
As the only democracy in SCO, besides a dysfunctional Pak, India must ensure the group is not hijacked by China to forge an anti-West front
20 Sep 2022 12:00 AM
Putin vowed to press attack on Ukraine despite the military setbacks but also faced concerns by India and China over the drawn-out conflict
18 Sep 2022 11:40 AM
The general peace that reigned in the decade after the Iron Curtain came down was, however, unlikely to last forever
02 Sep 2022 12:05 AM
Gorbachev’s was an unlikely story of a peasant boy from rural Russia climbing up the greasy pole of Soviet politics
02 Sep 2022 12:02 AM
When will good sense prevail in this endless war that is defying Russian military superiority? Not soon enough by the looks of it
25 Aug 2022 12:23 AM
The Kremlin has acknowledged that it has lost the Moskva, which sank after ammunition on board exploded
16 Apr 2022 12:16 AM
Not buying Russian gas and oil may cause serious problems there. But then, supporting democracy, even nascent ones, always has a price
12 Mar 2022 1:24 AM