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Can India Exercise Strategic Autonomy When The US And Israel Give No Room For It? – OpEd

New Delhi also finds itself in the US camp without deriving its benefits. Within the space of a year, India

06.03.2026 2

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US Cannot Subdue Iran Says Trump’s Former Defence Advisor – OpEd

Col. Douglas Macgregor, advisor to the Secretary of Defence in the first Trump Administration, has said that the Iran-US war

04.03.2026 4

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Trump Losing Americans’ Support For His Israel And Iran Policies – OpEd

Polls reveal that Americans now prefer Palestinians to Israel and oppose a war with Iran US President Donald Trump has

28.02.2026 7

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197 Indian Languages Have Been On The Verge Of Death In The Past 50 Years, Says UNESCO – OpEd

The annual observance of International Mother Language Day on February 21 has its origin in Bangladesh, where it marks the

23.02.2026 0

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How Pakistan Failed To Follow Through On Its Initial Success In Operation Sindoor – OpEd

Highlights of a study by the Centre for Military History and Perspective Studies (CHPM) in Switzerland The May 7 to

29.01.2026 20

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India Performed Creditably In May 2025 India-Pakistan War, Says Stimson Centre Analyst – OpEd

Though India lost some aircraft in the four-day India-Pakistan air war in May 2025, it struck deep into Pakistan with

04.01.2026 10

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Khaleda Zia Was Bangladesh’s Sirimavo Bandaranaike – OpEd

Both were strong nationalists and initiators of radical changes in their countries’ domestic and foreign policies   The Bangladeshi leader Khaleda

01.01.2026 5

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Bollywood Film Says Taj Mahal Was Built On Destroyed Hindu Temple – OpEd

“The Taj Story” is part of a new trend in Bollywood to challenge entrenched notions about India having had a

03.11.2025 10

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Inequality In The US And Mamdani’s Proposals To Mitigate It – OpEd

The divide between the rich and the poor has always been there in the United States, but it has become

20.10.2025 5

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Pak-Afghan Truce Is Yet Another Proof Of The Limited Value Of War – OpEd

Wars help foreground issues, send a telling message to the adversary and serve political ends at home and abroad but

20.10.2025 5

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Nobel Laureate Maria Machado Will Take Venezuela Into The US Camp – OpEd

Was the Nobel Prize for Machado pre-arranged with President Trump?  Maria Corina Machado (58), who was awarded the Nobel Peace

14.10.2025 8

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Trump And Modi Clash On Key Issues Despite Good Personal Chemistry – OpEd

US President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi enjoy good personal chemistry, and yet, they have been unable

10.10.2025 7

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India Set To Recognize Taliban Regime To Counter US-Pakistan Axis – OpEd

Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi’s week-long visit to India beginning on October 9 promises to eventful.  The week-long visit

08.10.2025 10

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World Is Shedding Its Reservations About The Taliban – OpEd

Powers are making a beeline to Kabul, attracted by Afghanistan’s strategic location and the minerals buried in it.    The world

07.10.2025 6

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Why Do Stampedes Occur So Often In India? – OpEd

The stampede at actor Vijay’s rally at Karur last month in which 41 were killed, was the 8th in India this

07.10.2025 8

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New Delhi’s Obsession With Security Led To Violence In Ladakh – OpEd

Perceived security threats from neighbouring Pakistan and China led to the abrogation of Art 370 of the Indian constitution that

06.10.2025 5

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Back To Square One? Netanyahu Revises Trump’s Plan To Suit Israel – OpEd

Before his meeting with Trump on Monday, Netanyahu met Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner and got Trump’s plan revised to

02.10.2025 5

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The Saudi-Pakistan Defence Pact Is An American Plan – OpEd

It is part of Trump’s plan to withdraw US boots from other countries leaving it to them to work out

23.09.2025 7

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Trump’s Bid To Invest US Military With ‘Lost’ Killer Instinct – OpEd

But it was through more than a hundred wars that the US became a superpower and has reigned as one

09.09.2025 8

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Why Does The US Blindly Support Israel? – OpEd

It is commonly believed that it is the Jewish lobby in the US which gets Washington to back Israel to

24.06.2025 5

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Israel-Iran Rapprochement Not Farfetched Says Iranian-American Scholar – OpEd

The sworn enemies had enjoyed a clandestine relationship in the past in pursuit of their interest, recalls Rana Nejad  Given

17.06.2025 5

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Chinese Scholar Guang Xing’s ‘Historical Buddha” – OpEd

‘Given the similarity between Confucius and the Buddha, Dr. Guang Xing wonders if the Buddha belonged to the Mongolian race

07.04.2025 10

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Baloch Rebellion Poses New Challenges To Pakistan – OpEd

The long-drawn out armed secessionist movement in Balochistan (Pakistan’s largest and poorest province) is evolving into more dangerous and...

18.03.2025 10

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Crime Wave, Including Attacks On Women, Sweeps Through Bangladesh – OpEd

The Yunus government looks on as criminals and Islamic radicals take on all vulnerable sections of society  If Sheikh Hasina’s

26.02.2025 8

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Trump Stamps Out American Soft Power – OpEd

Are coercion and transactional deals enough to make America great again?    In the 1980s, political scientist Joseph Nye coined the

23.02.2025 4

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Trump’s Presumptions About President McKinley May Not Be Accurate – OpEd

In his inaugural oration on January 20, US President Donald Trump hailed William McKinley, who was President from 1897 to

02.02.2025 9

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Trump Says US Will Be A Peace-Maker While Fiercely Defending Its Interests – OpEd

US President Donald Trump declared in his inaugural address and press conference in Washington on Monday, that the US under

21.01.2025 8

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Theory That Buddhism Vanished From Its Birthplace, India, Is Being Challenged – Book Review

Indian historian Shashank Shekhar Sinha has challenged the widely accepted theory that Buddhism vanished from India, its birth place, in

20.01.2025 8

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Ambedkar’s Conversion To Buddhism Was No Political Stunt – OpEd

Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, the icon of Indian Dalits (or the Untouchable Depressed Castes) and the chairman of the Indian Constitution Drafting...

18.12.2024 8

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