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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

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

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 4

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

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 3

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World Is Shedding Its Reservations About The Taliban – OpEd

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 2

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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 4

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

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 2

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

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 3

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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 3

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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 5

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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 4

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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 8

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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 8

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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 3

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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 3

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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 8

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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 4

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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 5

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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 5

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Why Is Crony Capitalism So Strong And Widespread? – OpEd

Crony capitalism is widely and publicly derided as the worst form capitalism. It is considered to be injurious to the long term prospects of an...

05.12.2024 5

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A Bangladeshi Perspective On Restoring Ties With India – OpEd

Alauddin Mohammad, a member of the Bangladesh National Citizens’ Committee Executive, seeks people-to-people contacts between  Bangladesh and...

02.12.2024 3

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A Cambridge Historian’s Take On Mahatma Gandhi’s Funeral In 1948 – OpEd

The assassination of Mahatma Gandhi by a Hindu fanatic on January 31, 1948 in New Delhi, though immeasurably unsettling, played a seminal role in...

20.11.2024 5

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Russian Experts Find Trump’s Ukraine Policy Fanciful – OpEd

Russian foreign policy experts are broadly appreciative of US President-elect Donald Trump’s foreign policy pronouncements. But they have grave...

13.11.2024 2

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Trump Is Expected To Secure US Rights Through Tough But Fair Transactions – OpEd

US President-elect Donald Trump is feared by some and extolled by others. On the one hand, those who fear him say he will make the US aggressive,...

10.11.2024 2

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Trump’s Victory Seen Through India’s Eyes – OpEd

Republican party candidate Donald Trump’s decisive victory over Democrat Kamala Harris in the November 5 US Presidential election looks remarkably...

06.11.2024 3

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India-Canada Ties Haemorrhage, But Ties With US Endure – OpEd

In the recent past, strains have developed in India’s relations with Canada and the US over allegations by the latter that India has eliminated, or...

16.10.2024 2

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Indian Dalit Leader Ambedkar Explains Mass Conversion To Buddhism – OpEd

Thousands of people assemble at Deekshabhoomi in Nagpur in the Western Indian State of Maharashtra on October 14 every year to pay homage to Dr....

09.10.2024 2

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UN Pleads For Elimination Of Nuclear Weapons As The Goal Goes On Distance – OpEd

By Ramesh Jaura Global nuclear disarmament has been the highest arms control priority of the United Nations since 1946 when the General Assembly...

01.10.2024 1

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Flexibility Marked The Hindu Caste Order In Buddha’s Time – OpEd

In Buddha’s time (Sixth-Fifth Century BC) flexibility marked the Hindu caste order and it was much later that the Vedic rigidities associated with...

01.10.2024 2

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Need To Study Maldives’ Buddhist Past – OpEd

The Maldives is a 100% Muslim country. But Buddhism was the dominant religion here for more than 1,000 years before the advent of Islam in 1153...

18.09.2024 4

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The Sociology Of Rape – OpEd

On Tuesday, September 3, the West Bengal State Assembly unanimously passed the “Aparajita Women and Child Bill” which provides for the death...

06.09.2024 2

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Bangladesh Is In A Politico-Economic Quagmire – OpEd

Nobel Laureate Dr. Muhammad Yunus, the de facto Prime Minister of Bangladesh, enjoys popular acclaim. But he is also subjected to great...

14.08.2024 2

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