Backgrounder
-
Why Nepal is again teetering on the edge of violence
In the last six years, no government has been able to build consensus on a constitution. And now the deadline for the task is up.
Raghu Menon
-
Despite largest majority in decades, BJP still resorting to ordinances to change policy
The Rajya Sabha is the primary stumbling block.
Rohan Venkataramakrishnan
-
Cuba and US: the long, twisted tale of two countries
The US blockade has less to do with forcing Castro's hand than to assuage anti-Castro Cuban exiles in Miami and south Florida who had the ability to swing domestic elections.
James G. Hershberg, The Conversation
Trending
-
Fact-checking five days of Narendra Modi’s speeches: A catalogue of lies
-
Banana republic in the making?: A South Asian perspective on India from Kathmandu
-
Karnataka forms SIT to probe ‘obscene videos’ case allegedly involving JD(S) MP Prajwal Revanna
-
Uttarakhand restricts sale of land for agriculture as locals protest tourism infrastructure boom
-
Expelled BJP Minority Morcha leader Usman Ghani arrested in Rajasthan
-
Silence on the coal scam is no longer an option for Manmohan Singh
How far up the ladder does responsibility for the irregular allocations go?
Supriya Sharma
-
Peshawar school attack: years of inaction on terror groups led to this atrocity
The attack is being seen as one of the worst in nearly a decade of unabated violence in the country that has killed more than 55,000 Pakistanis – most of whom were civilians.
Talat Farooq, The Conversation