MK Bhadrakumar says that BRICS is transforming into the most representative community in the world, with an expanding membership that interacts while bypassing western pressure INDIA became a beacon of hope
IN JULY, the Jordanian government sparked a wave of controversy when it proposed a so-called cybercrime law, adopted by the parliament later that month with only minor revisions and ratified
WHAT is the future likely to bring? A reasonable stance might be to try to look at the human species from the outside. So imagine that you’re an extra-terrestrial observer
WHAT happens when the looters are looted? Perhaps that strange sense of satisfaction called justice, an offence cancelled by another. One therefore greets the realisation that the British Museum has
Today is the 47th anniversary of the death of national poet Kazi Nazrul Islam. The death anniversary of Nazrul, widely known as the rebel poet, is observed in Bangladesh on
IT WAS known that president Vladimir Putin will not attend the G20, but will Xi Jinping attend? Let me take up Putin first: Putin did not attend the Bali Summit
IN THE 1980s millions of people were organised into militant trade unions and community organisations across South Africa. At the time it was argued that South Africa, along with Haiti
The recent coup in Niger threatens to unleash more private military and security companies on a continent where they have become steadily more powerful in recent decades, writes John P Ruehl
THE situation in Sri Lanka, particularly with regard to the economy and politics, can be described as stable but stagnant. The economy is stable in that it has not experienced
The animosities toward the French abroad among Nigeriens have been widely reported. But history is only part of the story, and not the largest part. Those who led the coup