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Roya Mahboob, CEO of Afghanistan-based Digital Citizen Fund, receives an award from Qatar’s Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani at the Doha Forum in Qatar’s capital on March 26.

Doha Forum 2022: U.S. position on Ukraine fails to find takers

At the Doha Forum 2022 held in March, the U.S. position on Ukraine did not find much favour with audiences and there was also the realisation that rat

SUMY, Ukriane, 05 March 2022: 10th day of Russia-Ukraine conflict. Indian students of the SUMY STATE UNIV in Ukraine protest and as they are headed to the Russian border that has reportedly opened its doors for students wanting to leave Ukraine. Photo: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT

Operation Ganga: The botched-up evacuation of Indian students from Ukraine

Unlike the historic Kuwait airlift of 1990, which was a study in efficiency, the Narendra Modi government’s evacuation of Indian students from Ukraine

February 3, 2022, Ukraine, under threat of invasion from their Russian neighbours to the east and occupying a strategic position for NATO to the west, has for centuries been at the crossroads for major regional powers. Graphic shows history of Ukraine since 750AD.

Ukraine conflict: Vladimir Putin, Joe Biden and Volodymyr Zelensky responsible for crisis

Presidents Vladimir Putin, Joe Biden and Volodymyr Zelensky should urgently find a way out of the crisis they are responsible for. If these three men

‘The Great Tragedy of India’s Partition’ by S.S. Sharma (Manohar Publishers, Rs. 2,650)

Book Review: S.S. Sharma's 'The Great Tragedy of India’s Partition’ helps to understand the circumstances of India’s Partition

This book is a significant addition to contemporary history and should be read by anyone who wants to understand the circumstances of the partition of

Book Review: Amartya Sen’s memoir 'Home in the World' is a discussion of memories and ideas

Amartya Sen’s memoir is not a chronological story of his life; it discusses ideas and emphasises the importance of public reasoning in decision-making

Book cover of Forgotten Kashmir

Book Review: Dinkar P. Srivastava's "Forgotten Kashmir: The Other Side of the Line of Control" sheds light on PoK

This book fills an important gap in scholarship on the history and current state of the portion of Jammu and Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan illegally oc

Book Review: On Sikkim, India’s 22nd State

The book, which brings out many little-known facts, is a valuable addition to the rather small number of books on Sikkim’s history and how it became a

Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund, Afghanistan’s new Prime Minister, and his team with the delegation from Qatar led by Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani (in white mask), in Kabul on September 12.

How the West bungled in Afghanistan

The composition of the caretaker Taliban government, which has no representation of either Shia Hazaras or women, has come in for much international c

August 17, 1977: U.S. President Jimmy Carter, National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski and Secretary of State Cyrus Vance at Camp David. Brzezinski, of Polish descent, wanted to embroil the Soviet military in Afghanistan to facilitate the liberation of Poland and other East European countries. He sent Special Forces to Afghanistan in July 1979. They fomented revolts, causing the communist government in Kabul to conclude that it was in peril and needed the Soviet Union’s military intervention.

Afghanistan’s chequered history

What has happened in Afghanistan can be traced to the United States’ ‘muscular’ foreign policy after the Cold War and the floundering global war on te

Book Review: M. Hamid Ansari's "By Many a Happy Accident" is more than just an autobiography

Former Vice President M. Hamid Ansari’s autobiography is more than just memoirs: it consists of reflections of a multifaceted personality and records

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken just before a joint news conference in Jerusalem on May 25.

Israel’s impunity, U.S.’ complicity

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu resorts to military operations in Gaza with U.S. support to hold on to power and mow down Hamas as it is the only fo

Book Review: Ishtiaq Ahmed's "Jinnah: His Successes, Failures and Role in History" attempts to understand Partition

This book is not a biography or even an account of what M.A. Jinnah the politician did or did not do. It is an attempt at historical reasoning by a po

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