Political society professes zero tolerance for corruption. But translating such political rhetoric often into tangible and impact-making enforcement is feeble. Political and administrative willpower are inadequate to redress its cause and scourge. We can take note of the temptation...
Jamal Kanj The release of three Israeli women held captive in Gaza on Sunday attracted significant global media attention. However, there was comparatively limited coverage of the freed Palestinian women, who had been kidnapped and detained by Israel without...
Public policy is an essential policy in the statecraft related to prudent, judicious and timely management of public and international affairs. It is the appropriate policy required under the division of functions of the government that are based on...
Rome - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is seeking $1.9 billion for 2025 to save the lives and livelihoods of some of the world's most food-insecure populations, as acute hunger tightens its grip across the...
Despite decades of reservation policies aimed at addressing historical injustices, the socio-economic condition of Scheduled Castes (SCs) in India remains dire, as highlighted by Sukhadeo Thorat, former Chairman of the University Grants Commission (UGC) and Professor Emeritus at Jawaharlal...
Robert F. Barsky Photograph Source: Augusto Starita / Ministerio de Cultura de la Nación – CC BY-SA 2.0 Noam Chomsky, one of the world’s most famous and respected intellectuals, will be 96 years old on Dec. 7, 2024. For more than...
By Scaria Cherian Chinese President Xi Jinping (right) is welcomed by Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva before the start of the 19th G20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Nov 18, 2024. (PHOTO / XINHUA) The G20 summit held...
A billet of highly enriched uranium. Be careful who you condemn and ostracise.  They just might be supplying you with a special need.  While the United States security establishment deems Russia the devil incarnate helped along by aspiring, mischief-making China, that devil...
Parts of the ballistic missile named Oreshnik (hazelnut) that Russia used in a strike on Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine, November 22, 2024 The American film maker and philanthropist who created the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises, George Lucas, once said, “Fear...
Image Source: hstoops – Public Domain On November 14, 2023, a month into Israel’s genocidal attack on the Palestinians in Gaza, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, one of the leaders of Ansar Allah and of the government of Yemen, delivered a speech that...