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The ‘fringe’ spokesperson merely followed the party’s playbook, and is now getting online and offline support. Nupur Sharma must wonder what exactly she has done wrong.…
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A constitutional crisis was averted on Monday – but politically (as distinct from constitutionally) the result was the worst possible for the current Prime Minister. Minister…
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This year's inflation situation is quite different from that of other years for two reasons. Strong economic recovery from Covid-induced fallout creates demand-pull inflation while Russia-Ukraine…
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The role that the TikTok algorithm plays in a national poll will have to be watched with interest. Even among the people born and living at…
Analysis
French President Emmanuel Macron recently suggested that “We must not humiliate Russia, so that the day when the fighting stops, we can build an exit ramp…
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PEOPLE can be forgiven for thinking or hoping that the political confrontation between Imran Khan’s PTI and the coalition government is beginning to ease. There is…
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While the United States and Europe have taken significant action to assist Ukraine and pressure Russia, there is increasing pressure to “do more.” With Russian war…
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The experience of the last five years shows that federalism has empowered local units Under the federal democratic constitution, Nepal impressively concluded the second local level…
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Many middle-income and developing countries are now suffering from a combination of internal political dysfunction and external economic shocks generated mainly by COVID-19 and the war…
Analysis
The anti-Islam insults by high ranking BJP staffers that caused a diplomatic storm are hardly anomalies. In the past few days, India’s governing Bharatiya Janta Party…
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The Covid pandemic left a serious impact on the national employment and income situations, especially among the country’s lower socio-economic segments. At least one person in…
Analysis
If ‘con’ is the antonym of ‘pro’, then constitution is the antonym of prostitution. So goes the joke. But in Sri Lanka, since the introduction of…
