Infrastructure that carries a nation’s data, finance and emergency communications is strategic infrastructure. We would not hand over a port, a power grid or a strategic petroleum reserve on the strength of
On October 20, National Mobilization Front (NMF) fighters carried out a targeted operation in Kabul city in the vicinity of the First District. The target of this operation was a prominent ‘commander’
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The homecoming of Thuingaleng Muivah, the supremo of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Isak Muivah (NSCN-IM), to his native village, Somdal in Manipur’s Ukhrul District, on October 22, 2025, after five decades,
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The walls of Santiago, Chile – the city where I live – are marked with faded graffiti from the estallido social (social uprising) of 2019. Years later, these slogans continue to spill onto the
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From the moment of his victory in Sunday’s presidential elections, Bolivia’s president-elect Rodrigo Paz set the tone. “They squandered our gas, the lithium never appeared, and now we’re in crisis!” The centre-right
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After J.R. Jayewardene introduced the Executive Presidency, India extended official visit invitations to Sri Lankan Prime Ministers only during periods when there were distinct centres of power within the government. Since J.R.’s
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On October 20, 2025, at least five suspected militants of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Khaplang-Yung Aung faction (NSCN-K-YA) were killed in a drone strike, allegedly by the Indian Army, targeting NSCN-K-YA
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On October 17, 2025, as many as 210 Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres, including 110 women cadres, laid down arms at the Reserve Police Line in Jagdalpur in Bastar District. The surrendered cadres,
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The flood of angry —and justified— reactions to this year’s Nobel Peace Prize laureate, María Corina Machado, reveals less about the committee’s decision than about the public’s sense of shock. How can anyone still
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Adding to his score of destroying three Narco fast boats, the US military has destroyed what appears to be a semi-submersible, probably striking it with two Hellfire missiles. What options does the
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Pak Army Chief Munir’s misreading of the contemporary nuclear theory and praxis in the Subcontinent is disastrous for his country. Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Field Marshal Asim Munir completely misconstrues
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“No child should be resilient to slaughter, genocide, and massacre. Being resilient is used to justify what is happening before our eyes and later we will call them survivors.”Pradeep Samanjeeva, Project Medical
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(The Nobel Prize for Peace this year went to a person – María Corina Machado – who has called upon the US government to bomb her own country, Venezuela, and has supported
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“Without data, all that you have is an opinion.” …attributed to W. Edwards Deming ~ World Statistics Day falls on 20 October. This day, as the Secretary-General of the United Nations reminds
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Mon dieu! La France has run out of politicians. The Republic of this great democracy has hundreds of professional politicians. In fact, 577 in its National Assembly. Yet it can’t seem to
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There is an unending debate all over the world about which is the best form of governance. Arguments abound in favor of communism, dictatorship, military rule, feudalism, and democracy. Yet, among thought
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