– By Fabien Zamora,
Hardline rhetoric about immigration in Europe and the United States underlines a resurgence of nationalism and has some commentators comparing the current era to the 1930s. Is the parallel justified ?
From Donald Trump to Italy’s Matteo Salvini, Hungary’s...
By-Bjørn Lomborg, NEW DELHI – According to popular wisdom, 2016 was a terrible year. Horrific terror attacks struck many countries. The Syrian crisis claimed tens of thousands of lives. Turkey withstood suicide bombings and a failed coup. More than 70 countries experienced a decline in freedom...
-By Dr. Krishna Kumar Tamang, Disaster Mgmt. Expert,
There are several factors for consideration in responding disasters by individual nations and they are interlinked to propensity for disaster, local and regional economic resources, organization of government, and availability of technological...
-By Maria Perez, With the unthinkable now cautiously possible, peace between North and South Korea, speculation about President Donald Trump becoming a Nobel Peace Prize winner has begun. If peace in the Korean Peninsula truly happens, the Nobel committee could be left with a difficult choice...
– By Liu Zhenmin, New York, In 2015, United Nations member states came together and committed to achieving a comprehensive and universal set of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) spanning all dimensions of economic and social development.
Investment will be indispensable to achieving...
-By Kamran Yousaf, Some weeks back, Imran Khan, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief, was heavily criticised for using the old tactics to climb the political ladder. His decision to accept some of the controversial figures into the party’s fold even drew the ire of his closest aides. But his...
She knew who she was, and she saw no need to apologize for it. In the spring of 1990, the administration of Wellesley College — the alma mater, as it happened, of Hillary Rodham Clinton – invited Barbara Bush, then the first lady of the United States, to speak at commencement and receive an...
-By Anjum Niaz, A president who fires his cabinet ministers via a mere tweet is unstable, mercurial and erratic. A policy wonk like Thomas Friedman of The New York Times says, “We have a president who’s a disturbed person.” Setting off alarm bells, America is in danger according to Freidman...
-By Kamran Yousaf, The 84-year-old Harbajan Singh Bhatia was unsure what kind of reception he would get at his birthplace. He had never gone to his ancestral house since his family left for India in 1947. Also it was not the best time either to set foot on ‘enemy’ soil and that too when the...
There aren’t many certainties in politics, but here’s one: Vladimir Putin will be re-elected to a fourth presidential term in Sunday’s sham ballot. The larger question is what other elections can Putin win in the coming years.
He’s on a roll. The big winners in Italy’s election this month...
