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Justice in Conflict

The clash between the International Criminal Court (ICC) and Israel over arrest warrants for key Israeli leaders, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, brings to the forefront a longstanding debate about accountability, self-defence, and international justice.

Missile Brinkmanship

The escalation in the Ukraine conflict, marked by Russia’s unveiling of a new intermediate-range ballistic missile, represents a significant shift in the dynamics of global warfare.

Past resurrected

Is there life after death? After millennia of Vedic-Puranic teachings and learnings, the answer is definitely a resounding 'Yes'. Nothing dies, it changes form; nothing is born, it assumes new forms.

The Last First~I

The professional lives of development experts are quite remote from the everyday strife of those who live in villages. In the village, each successive generation is born into the rigidity of caste; each generation must bear the rapacity of the moneylender and the merchant and the random cruelty of nature - floods, famines, and pestilence.

Scope of private blended finance

According to the OECD (2017) definition, "blended finance is the strategic use of development finance for the mobilisation of additional finance towards sustainable development in developing countries".

GTA elections

After five years in suspended animation, elections to the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration will eventually be held on June 26, with the counting of votes scheduled for the 29th.

Incomprehensible

President Joe Biden has conveyed a stark message to the United States of America with his stout condemnation of Tuesday’s shootings in a school in Texas ~ a deeply pro-gun state ~ as a “uniquely American tragedy”.