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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.

Stricter policy on casinos

Another integrated gaming, resort, and leisure project about thrice the size of the cluster of casinos in the Entertainment City along Manila Bay is being planned in Cavite.

Bravely and well

West Bengal’s minister of state for school education has been rapped on the knuckles by Calcutta High Court on Friday in what appears to be the severest indictment yet of the system in place.

Down Under

The complexities of elections in Australia are exemplified by the fact that Anthony Albanese, the leader of the Centre-Left Labour Party, is still rather uncertain as to whether he will assume charge as the Prime Minister.

GST and Federalism

The SC may have correctly observed that in case it was intended to make the GST Council a decision-making authority, such a qualification would have been included in articles 246A or 279A. But to treat the GST legislations mechanically without considering their long and arduous journey through the maze of our treacherous political system over a period spanning more than three decades would be tantamount to severely undermining the promise held out by GST to transform India into a common market by supplanting our antiquated, multi-layered, multi-point, multi-tax system circumscribed by an odious Inspector Raj.

OCCASIONAL NOTE

Bombay, to judge from the statue it has accorded Lord Hardinge, continues to regard that diplomatist in a heroic light. For the average unprejudiced observer Lord Hardinge's viceroyalty marks, and will always mark, the inauguration in India of that policy of opportunism to which the majority of the country's present difficulties are traceable.