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Harsh V. Pant Japan’s longest-serving Prime Minister Shinzo Abe died on 8 July 2022, hours after he was shot at a rally while campaigning for elections to Japan’s upper house. Abe was instrumental in shaping and strengthening India–Japan ties, and…
Harsh V. Pant & Shashank Mattoo Japan before Shinzo Abe seemed like a country adrift. Its economy, hamstrung by years of low growth and an aging population, was feared to be in terminal decline. China’s meteoric rise threatened its security…
Srikanth Kondapalli China’s official response to the assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as “shocking” and “unexpected incident” is at variance with the scorn being poured out on its rabid Communist Party-backed nationalist social networking sites. In some…
TK Arun The Eknath Shinde government in Maharashtra is alive and kicking. So are the governments of Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka, both birthed out of the feeble bodies of previous governments that had been blown up. Clearly, the anti-defection law…
Tikender Singh Panwar Ecological disasters such as Floods in Silchar, Assam; landslides in Manipur and more floods in the offing as the monsoon advances in the country; such would be the visible stories published in the media for at least two more…
Devender Singh The theme for World Population Day 2022 is “A world of 8 billion: Towards a resilient future for all – Harnessing opportunities and ensuring rights and choices for all”. It asks us to bear in mind that there…
Arun Kumar India’s goods and services tax (GST) regime was launched with much fanfare on July 1, 2017. It was marketed by many as the nation’s second ‘tryst with destiny’, a reform that would unify the country by creating a single…