Editorial - Page 7

China’s declaration of a nature reserve in the South China Sea, ostensibly aimed at protecting the fragile coral reef ecosystem of Huangyan Island,...

The announcement of a “Strategic Mutual Defence Agreement” between Pakistan and Saudi Arabia marks a striking moment in the evolving geopolitics of...

The world today is teetering on the edge of a deeper and more dangerous disorder than at any time since the Second World War. Global security...

The United Nations Human Rights Council’s commission of inquiry has made perhaps its most damning pronouncement yet on the war in Gaza, concluding...

The birth anniversary of CN Annadurai, a towering figure in Tamil Nadu’s political history, brought into focus once again the deep fissures within the...

The recent decision of the GST Council to reduce the tax on passenger vehicles up to 1,200 cc from 28 per cent to 18 per cent marks a turning point...

The tragic death of Charlie Kirk in Utah, a man who once argued that some gun deaths were a necessary cost to uphold the Second Amendment, has exposed...

Israel’s strike on Hamas’ top leaders in Qatar, even as they weighed a ceasefire proposal, captures both the audacity and futility of its campaign....

The turbulence in Nepal that was eventually triggered by the government’s sudden ban on social media platforms is more than a story of one nation’s...

France has been plunged into yet another political maelstrom, and the repeated collapse is beginning to look less like an aberration and more like a...

There are few markers of a nation’s progress more telling than the survival of its youngest citizens. The latest Sample Registration System report...

There are moments when a democracy must pause to ask: who protects its moral compass when politics falters, when expediency overwhelms principle, and...