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Indian PM visits Russia: A steadily growing strategic partnership
July 11, 2024, 7:56 PM IST
Modi’s first bilateral foreign visit to Moscow after taking over as PM for the third time signifies not only the importance India attaches to its ties with Russia but also that this partnership has steadily…
July 11, 2024, 7:56 PM IST
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Modi’s tightrope walk on Russia-Ukraine
July 11, 2024, 7:31 AM IST
What separates a multipolar world from a bipolar one, observed a Twitter expert, is the India-Russia relationship. In Russia for a bilateral summit with Putin after five years, Modi’s job was never going to be…
July 11, 2024, 7:31 AM IST
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A tale of two wars: Why Israel dominates while Russia struggles?
July 10, 2024, 4:37 PM IST
Two major wars are going on in different parts of the world; presenting different pictures. While Russia invaded Ukraine way back in February 2022, it is unable to convert the protracted war into an outright…
July 10, 2024, 4:37 PM IST
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The Weekly Vine Edition 1: Will Gautam Gambhir make team India fans laugh like Laughing Buddhas?
July 10, 2024, 3:49 PM IST
Hello and welcome to the first edition of The Weekly Vine: a brand-new newsletter from The Times of India. The newsletter’s raison d’être is simple. It will help you sound smarter and more informed in just five…
July 10, 2024, 3:49 PM IST
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The ageless politics
July 10, 2024, 3:26 PM IST
A climax that turned out to be worse than an anti-climax, even from modernist Hollywood movie standards. Yes, we are talking about the debate between POTUS (President of the United States) and the ex-POTUS. The…
July 10, 2024, 3:26 PM IST
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Modi’s Moscow Visit: Putin can’t help India with China, nor is he likely to heed advice on Ukraine
July 9, 2024, 6:53 PM IST
As PM Modi sat down today with Russia’s Putin for a bilateral summit, several issues cropped up. First, it’s clear that this visit helps Putin more because it counters the perception of isolation. In fact,…
July 9, 2024, 6:53 PM IST
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France just had a big election
July 9, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
France recently had an important election. At first, it looked like a group with some unfair ideas about immigrants and minorities might win. This worried many people. But then something cool happened. Different political groups…
July 9, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
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Oui the people
July 9, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
France’s dramatic election shows the virtues of coalition dharma when faced with threat to core democratic values French talk of French exceptionalism is food for many jokes around the world. But their dramatic parliamentary elections…
July 9, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
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What does Masoud Pezeshkian’s election as Iran’s president signify?
July 8, 2024, 9:42 PM IST
Masoud Pezeshkian has been elected as the new president of Iran in the elections held on July 5. Pezeshkian was elected in the second round since in the first round held on June 28, no…
July 8, 2024, 9:42 PM IST
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Dubai – the food capital of the region
July 8, 2024, 2:05 PM IST
Home to most nationalities and regularly being voted as one of the best and safest tourist destinations, Dubai is also now the food capital of the region that is attracting best of culinary talent and…
July 8, 2024, 2:05 PM IST
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Tehran twist
July 8, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
As religious conservatives ebb in Iran, it’s not Iranian women alone who are taking hope Are presidential elections in Iran free and fair? Hardly. A stark tell is that instead of being selected by political…
July 8, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
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Big changes in Iran
July 8, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
Iran just had an important election. The winner, Masoud Pezeshkian, wants to make some changes that could make life better for many people in Iran. What’s different? More freedom: Pezeshkian played a song at his…
July 8, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
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My Take 5 (Edition 23): The week that was in international affairs
July 7, 2024, 1:02 AM IST
Welcome to another edition of My Take 5, your weekly wrap of international news. We had a break in between so let’s quickly catch up: Labour wins big in UK: Britain’s Labour party won…
July 7, 2024, 1:02 AM IST
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Why are voters highly dissatisfied in most of the Western world?
July 6, 2024, 3:54 PM IST
The Labour party has won a landslide victory in the UK general election winning 64 per cent of the seats in the parliament even though they received just 34 per cent of the votes. Despite…
July 6, 2024, 3:54 PM IST
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Who will fix not-so-Great Britain?
July 6, 2024, 8:00 AM IST
In the end, it was sunshine and showers in Britain, the morning after it acted on the advice of one of its leading tabloids and changed its “manager”. Despite Euro 2024, the reference was not…
July 6, 2024, 8:00 AM IST
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From pig-gate to sandwich love: A brief history of the 14-year torrid Tory rule in Britain
July 5, 2024, 12:53 PM IST
In one of the finest scenes in Yes Minister – which is saying something since almost every set in Yes Minister is pure art – Sir Humphrey Appleby and Sir Arnold discuss the virtues of a compromise candidate in…
July 5, 2024, 12:53 PM IST
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It’s all about how well your brain works
July 5, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
People are talking a lot about President Biden being old. He’s 82, which makes him the oldest U.S. president ever. Some people think he’s too old to be president again. But is being old really…
July 5, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
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It’s the mind
July 5, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
Biden’s age isn’t the issue, his mental acuity is. Even older heads of govt have done fine Biden’s recent presidential debate debacle has sharpened the focus on his age. At 81, Biden is not only…
July 5, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
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Lost opportunity to take back POK: Kargil victory
July 3, 2024, 10:06 PM IST
Pakistani soldiers dressed in civil clothes as terrorists were perched at heights in Kargil in the summer months of 1999 when a grazier, in Batalik, noticed them first. Pakistan had once again breached the faith…
July 3, 2024, 10:06 PM IST
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The angels and demons within us
July 1, 2024, 6:59 AM IST
Authored by Jug Suraiya On March 4, 1861, the 16th President of United States, Abraham Lincoln, took the oath of office and made his inaugural address to his country, over which loomed the gathering storm…
July 1, 2024, 6:59 AM IST
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