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By Annunthra Rangan Over the past two years, the Middle East has remained a focal point in international affairs, largely due to the ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict. The United States’ unwaverin...

The world watches in suspended anxiety as the political players in the latest Middle East crisis succumb to their darkest instincts—driven by nationalistic pride, personal ambition, and the enduring ...

New visa scrutiny, attacks on lawyers, and chaotic immigration policy mark Donald Trump’s latest playbook for control

By Kumkum Chadha While the country celebrated the inauguration of the Chenab Railway Bridge with much fanfare, the woman behind its engineering stayed away. Dr G Madhavi Latha, a geo-technical exp...

As the president barrels through his second term with military deployments, sweeping budget demands, and mounting defiance of legal norms, critics warn that the US is drifting from democracy to domination—one executive order at a time

By Vikram Kilpady The long-delayed Census of India will finally be conducted by March 1, 2027, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has announced. Sixteen years after the last headcount, this fresh ...

By Annunthra Rangan In a sign of tentative diplomatic thaw, India’s External Affairs Minister Subramanyam Jaishankar and Canada’s newly appointed Foreign Minister Anita Anand held a constructive d...

By Kenneth Tiven Donald Trump is angry and frustrated with the US Constitution and federal judges, but the only person he should blame is England’s King George III, whose indifference towards Nort...

In a stinging rebuke to the president’s expansive use of emergency powers, a federal trade court has ruled his sweeping global tariffs illegal. While a temporary reprieve delays the full effect, the decision is the latest in a cascade of courtroom defeats that reveal a presidency increasingly at odds with law and institutional limits

By Kenneth Tiven “Define habeas corpus in American law.” That was Senator Maggie Hassan’s opening question to Kristi Noem, the head of the Department of Homeland Security and a former farm girl fr...