Tokyo dreams On Japan snap polls Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has gambled his career by calling snap elections to the Lower House of t...

Hope in Darjeeling On end of blockade With a breakthrough ending the 104-day-long blockade in the Darjeeling hills, the Union and W...

Repeat and repent On Obama care repeal A second concerted push by Republicans in the U.S. Congress to “repeal and replace” the land...

Confusing consent On the Farooqui verdict In acquitting writer-film-maker Mahmood Farooqui of the charge of rape, the Delhi High Co...

Fog in London On U.K.’s Brexit talks British Prime Minister Theresa May continues to be in a bind about how to stage a less chaotic...

Power problem On Saubhagya scheme Universal access to electricity has been a familiar and long-standing promise of governments at t...

Worrying downgrade On snow leopard conservation The elusive and charismatic snow leopard has lost its endangered status in the Red ...

Merkel’s world On German polls Angela Merkel’s return for a fourth consecutive term as Chancellor, with a much-reduced mandate for ...

The faltering economy On the weak numbers A set of weak economic numbers has left the Central government scrambling to do something...

Afghan overture On India’s assistance President Donald Trump’s policy announcement on Afghanistan has clearly set the stage for div...

Hopes and fears On Sri Lanka's Constitutional reform It is only with a great degree of caution and circumspection that the inte...

Tax trauma On GST Network For a reform that was cracked up to be India’s biggest tax overhaul since Independence, the roll-out of t...

Freedom from fear On Tripura journalist murder The murder of Santanu Bhowmik, a television reporter, in Mandwai in Tripura on Wedne...

Taper timetable On quantitative easing in U.S. Quantitative easing has concluded in the world’s largest economy — at least for now....

Nuclear deal in danger On Trump's UNGA address U.S. President Donald Trump’s opposition to the Iran nuclear deal is not new. Bu...

A big broom On crackdown on shell companies The decision by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs to  crack down on so-called ‘shell co...

The Kurdish vote On proposed independence referendum Iraqi Kurdistan’s decision to go ahead with a proposed independence referendum...

Targeting refugees Centre's position on Rohingya The Union government’s position that it considers  Rohingya refugees from Myan...

A hand from Hamas On Palestinian reconciliation Hamas’s decision to dissolve the Gaza administrative committee and hold talks with ...

A partisan ruling On disqualification of dissident AIADMK MLAs The disqualification of 18 dissident AIADMK legislators by the Tamil...