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Protesters hold an inflatable baby Donald Trump doll near the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children, on Sunday, June 16, 2019, in Homestead, Florida. Protesters said they wanted the Homestead detention centre closed.

Opinion

Trump is running concentration camps

Why are Americans not in the streets every day, demanding an end to this atrocity?

By Charles M. Blow / New York Times News Service

Opinion

Getting FATF to blacklist Pak will be tough

By K.P. Nayar
Of the 36 countries and two regional organizations which are members of the FATF, India was the only country which vigorously campaigned during the plenary in Orlando for blacklisting Pakistan. US treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin did not have a single word to say against Pakistan.

Opinion

Opening the doors for foreign universities

By Palash Deb
The University of Oxford. The presence of foreign universities in India will surely have a rub-off effect on Indian universities, many of which are mired in a slothful, inert culture where all aspects of university governance are centralized, standardized, and often politicized.
At a moment when animal-based agriculture is near the top of planet-killing culprits, ditching meat for substitutes, faux or otherwise, is the most effective thing an individual can do to fight climate change, according to a study in the journal 'Science'.

Opinion

Fake meat will save us

By Timothy Egan / New York Times News Service
If, in electoral terms, 2019 marks the nadir of the communist movement in India, the high point was 2004, when the communist parties had more than 60 seats in Parliament

Opinion

Does the Indian Left have a future?

By Ramachandra Guha
Striking junior doctors at NRS Medical College and Hospital in Calcutta on Saturday. Asian countries are reflecting the western transformation of the physicians’ market towards salaried employment (from self-employment), chronic care (from acute care), and team care (from solo or group practice)

Opinion

What do white coats mean in today's India?

By Chirantan Chatterjee
A girl wears a Brazilian flag at a demonstration supporting Jair Bolsonaro in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in October 2018. Bolsonaro ascended to the highest office of South America’s largest country through a visceral campaign that targeted political elites, minorities, women and LGBTQ people

Opinion

Anti-immigrant autocrats are on the rise

By Robert Schertzer
Viktor Orbán, Hungary’s prime minister and de facto supreme leader. This year, Freedom House downgraded Hungary to the status of ‘partly free’ country, the only EU member state to earn that dishonour.

Opinion

Hungary is Europe's guilty secret

By Timothy Garton Ash
Workers and supporters of the BJP attend Prime Minister Narendra Modi's roadshow in Varanasi on April 25, 2019.

Opinion

Are we really a parliamentary democracy?

By Arghya Sengupta
Rahul Gandhi on his birthday on Wednesday, June 19, 2019. Following the “Chowkidar chor hai” controversy during the election campaign, he admitted his mistake before the Supreme Court and expressed regret. That was found to be insufficient, and a proper apology followed.

Opinion

Scales of grace: apologies through history

By Gopalkrishna Gandhi
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Comment
INS Mumbai during the Indian Navy's International Fleet Review, 2016. Traditionally, the Indian navy has been the neglected branch of the armed forces. An evaluation of the naval budget pie would reveal declining trends.

India needs an up-to-date naval doctrine

By Rohan Choudhary
Pleasurable downtime with friends is not something you need to corral into schedules, phone calls and elaborate, tightly-timed plans

The warmth of unplanned meetings with friends

By Ruchir Joshi
An oil tanker on fire in the sea off Oman on Thursday, June 13, 2019.

Who was behind the Gulf oil tanker attacks?

By Gwynne Dyer
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla: Mum’s the word

The discretion of Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla

By The Telegraph
Once, doctors commanded both the mystery of science and the magic of metaphysics. As medicine became for-profit, the metaphysics slowly disappeared

For medicine, stronger medicine

By Saurabh Jha
It turns out the original prize was not the cup but oil. The cup merely contained it. In Ancient Greece and in Ancient Rome, when they won the day, for butchery or for bravery, they gave you oil

That thing we often hold

By Sankarshan Thakur
Editorials
Those who support the ‘one nation, one election’ principle promoted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his party are enthusiastic proponents — point out that such a joint exercise has had precedents
Those who support the ‘one nation, one election’ principle promoted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his party are enthusiastic proponents — point out that such a joint exercise has had precedents

'One nation, one election': proper debate needed

By The Editorial Board
Letters
In this June 10, 2019, picture, Selah Schneiter poses during her climb up El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, California.
In this June 10, 2019, picture, Selah Schneiter poses during her climb up El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, California.

10-year-old girl who climbed El Capitan deserves kudos

By The Telegraph
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