T K Arun America wants to weaken Russia, said US defence secretary Lloyd Austin when he visited Ukrainian capital Kyiv in late April. This was a candid statement of the US war aim in Ukraine. Ukrainian forces do the fighting,…
T K Arun On Monday, a two-member bench of the Supreme Court questioned the right of a political party to file a petition seeking the stay of a demolition of unauthorised structures in Shaheen Bagh, which had remained a nondescript,…
Gouri Sankar Nag, Manas Mukul Bandyopadhyay It is time for deeper introspection for the entire European politics which is nudged by turmoil ad infinitum. Initially, we thought that the demise of the Cold War would indeed turn out to be…
अरुण कुमार इन दिनों भारतीय अर्थव्यवस्था से जुड़ी दो खबरें सुर्खियों में हैं। पहली यह कि भारतीय रिजर्व बैंक ने 2021-22 की मुद्रा एवं वित्त संबंधी रिपोर्ट में कहा है कि कोरोना-काल में देश की अर्थव्यवस्था को जो नुकसान हुआ…
Harsh V. Pant & Tobias Scholz Germany’s recently elected center-left coalition under Chancellor Scholz chose India as the partner for its first governmental consultations on 2nd May 2022. Beyond the signaling effects that Europe’s and Asia’s largest democracies intend to cooperate…
Dhiraj Nayyar The global economy is in a tight spot, haunted by the spectre of slowing growth and accelerating inflation. In India, RBI finally threw its weight behind inflation, raising the repo rate by 40 bps and the cash reserve ratio by 50 bps. Already, a lot…