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Opinion | After Bondi Beach Attack, Some Hard Questions For The Muslim World
The Muslim ummah needs to confront the anger, denial and victimhood narratives that create the environment in which extremists begin to believe their violence is righteous.
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Opinion | Why Big Tech Has Committed Almost $80 Billion To India In Two Months
India has attracted more than $80 billion in fresh tech pledges within weeks. And this is on top of India's already strong post-pandemic annual FDI inflow of more than $80 billion.
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Opinion | Why India, Which Sends Rice To 170 Nations, Must Ignore Trump's Basmati Blues
India exported over 20 million metric tonnes of rice in 2024 to more than 170 countries. It is easily the world's largest rice exporter, bigger than the next four countries combined. The US buys only a sliver of India's shipments.
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Opinion | The Anti-Putin 'Op-ed': Why Europe Must Stop Lecturing India Like It's 1905
Europe has had it easy for centuries. Today, two non-European powers - the US and Russia - are deciding its fate. What really stings the old continent today is this acute feeling of impotency, a sense of irrelevance.
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Opinion | 'PhD' Handlers To Faridabad 'Doctors', How 'White-Collar' Terrorism Isn't New
From ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who held a PhD, to Al-Qaeda's Ayman al-Zawahiri, a surgeon, and Laden, a civil engineering graduate - some of the world's most extremist leaders have come from classrooms, universities and privileged backgrounds.
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Opinion | "Just Delhi By The Sea": How Goa Drove Its Tourists Away
Goa's sleepy and leisurely environment, once its greatest asset, is now its weakness.You can get WiFi on a surfboard in Bali, but still struggle to find a clean loo in Baga.
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Opinion | A Prince, A Teen, Queen's Hush Money: The Sex Scandal Rocking UK's Royal Family
How a dead woman's memoir has blown the lid off Britain's dirtiest Royal secret.
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Opinion | Visits Aside, Will UK Ever Apologise To India?
Each time an Indian leader visits Britain, the question resurfaces: will London ever say sorry? Each time, it sidesteps, offering instead the language of "regret".
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Opinion | Can India Rescue Its Exiled Coders - Like China And Taiwan?
For years, the middle-class mantra in India was: study hard, crack the exams, get the H-1B visa, build a life in America. That promise now lies in ruins. But...China and Taiwan have been here before.
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Opinion | Why An Anti-Immigrant Rally In London Should Worry Indians
Britain is crying out for leadership that offers renewal. Until that happens, marches like "Unite the Kingdom" will not be the exception but the shape of things to come.
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Opinion | Degrees For Dollars? Inside The Foreign University Gold Rush In India
A few months ago, the Indian government announced that 15 foreign universities are setting up campuses in the country. What's at stake for students?
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Opinion | The Story Of How Sikhs Came To Own A Pro Football Club In UK
Morecambe FC, known as the Shrimps, more famous for pies than for points, has just been saved by the Panjab Warriors, a Sikh-led consortium that has pulled the club back from the brink.
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Opinion | 'Alien', 'Pajeet', 'Browns Off Cliffs': How Indians Became The Most Hated Diaspora
Indians abroad are facing a storm - a surge in racial hostility that is fuelled by envy, stereotypes and far-right paranoia. They are admired and resented, successful and scapegoated, celebrated in official speeches but vilified in everyday life.
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Opinion | US-Israel Are Standing Alone. Their Friends Want To 'Recognise' Palestine
Australia has now joined a growing bloc of Western nations, including the UK, France, Spain, Ireland and Canada, that have declared their intention to recognise the State of Palestine.
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Opinion | Hypocrisy, In Numbers: A List Of All That EU And US Still Buy From Russia
While the West's political rhetoric calls for total economic isolation, its own data reveal its selective exposure to Russia, not the kind of total 'divorce' news headlines have been implying.
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Opinion | Kneel, Deal, Or Bleed: The Trump-enomics Wrecking The World
Since returning to the Oval Office, Trump has been on a tariff rampage. The global trading system is unrecognisable. Tariffs have become weapons, trade partners have been reduced to negotiators, and the WTO is now functionally comatose.
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Opinion | Trump Tariffs: Diplomacy Is Dead. Long Live Social Media Theatrics
Trump's playbook is vintage. He first extends his hand as a friend, then strikes with the force of a bully. His tariffs are not about the principle of fairness. They are a blunt instrument wielded for selfish reasons, for dominance and spectacle.
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Opinion | All The Ways Epstein Continues To Haunt Donald Trump
No matter how far President Trump flies - whether to Mar-a-Lago, Manhattan or the manicured golf greens of Scotland (from where he returned on Tuesday) - the ghost of Jeffrey Epstein refuses to part with him.
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Opinion | UK-India Trade Pact: The Empire, Finally, Shakes An Equal Hand
For 200 years, Britain shaped India's trade rules to its advantage - plundering raw materials, taxing salt, killing industries in the name of "free markets". Now, as post-Brexit UK shops around for friends, India has become a prized dance partner.
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Opinion | Snapback To Reality: On Iran's 45-Year Slog To Nowhere
Vietnam chose wisely. It invited its old enemy to build factories, sign defence pacts and invest in peace. Tehran must decide: does it want to be the next Vietnam - or the next North Korea?
