12 Apr 2021

Countries worldwide hit new records for virus cases, deaths

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Brazil this week becomes 2nd country after US to report a 24-hour tally of COVID-19 deaths that exceeded 4,000. In this April 7, 2021, file photo, cemetery workers wearing protective gear lower the coffin of a person who died from … Read More
20 Feb 2020

How Hindu supremacists are tearing India apart

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Members of India’s Hindu nationalist organisation Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) at a rally near Hyderabad. Photograph: STR/AFP via Getty Images For seven decades, India has been held together by its constitution, which promises equality to all. But Narendra Modi’s BJP … Read More
15 Jan 2018

Opinion Can India Really Play ‘Best Friends’ to Israel, Palestine and Iran at the Same Time?

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Netanyahu calls India – Israel relations a ‘marriage made in heaven’. For the arms trade and public relations, it certainly is. But as Modi won’t betray the Palestinians or renounce the Iranians, it resembles more an open marriage – and … Read More