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Opinion: When It Counted, India Stood With The UAE
The current crisis has not weakened the UAE, and it will not. Instead, it has demonstrated the depth of the UAE's national structure, the resilience of its institutions, the cohesion of its society, and the strength of its international standing.
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Blog: The Last 30 Days Of My Jiji — And A Goodbye I Never Got
She was traumatised, shocked, and physically unwell after the sudden death of her parents. Both passed away in the last months of 2021.
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Opinion | Trump And His America Are Fast Losing Touch With Reality
What is the guiding logic of the rather brash turn in American foreign policy? It is all too easy to box Trump as an irrational player, but frankly, it is a bit of an analytical copout.
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Opinion | Iran-Israel War, And What India Can Learn From The 'KC-135' Crash
Transparency doesn't just establish honesty; it denies the adversary the space to peddle the exaggerated claims we frequently see from Pakistan or China, where military losses erode state power.
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Opinion | Mojtaba's First Message Makes It Clear: Iran Won't Give An Easy 'Exit' To Trump
In Iran, the assassination of a Supreme Leader demands a response, a do-or-die response. Backing down would risk undermining Mojtaba's legitimacy at home and weakening his authority among the hardline institutions that support his regime.
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Opinion | What Happens If Saudi Arabia Really 'Asks' Pakistan To Go To War?
Since the beginning of the Iran-Israel war, questions have been raised about what role Pakistan would play on the side of the Saudis. The answer is getting murkier.
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Opinion | Amazon Centres To Banks, What Iran's 'Target List' Of Tech Firms Reveals
Distributed via Telegram by the IRGC-affiliated Tasnim News Agency, the list named Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Nvidia, IBM, Oracle, and Palantir - together with their regional offices, data centres, and research facilities, as legitimate targets.
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Opinion | The Real Winner Of Iran-Israel War Is Someone Trump Never Accounted For
The current crisis promises tens of billions of dollars to Russia in additional revenue. Here's how.
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Opinion | Three Targets For US Boots On The Ground In Iran
As President Donald Trump's administration wrestles with options in the war with Iran, it continues to consider "boots on the ground."
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Opinion | We're All Trapped In Trump's 1980s Worldview
Take a moment to digest the following, quite extraordinary sequence of events. At the end of last week, US officials leaked to the Washington Post that Russia had been giving Iran target data to strike US military assets in the Persian Gulf.
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Opinion | Iran-Israel War, And The 'War Logic' Behind Bombing Oil Depots
The thinking presumably was that targeting economic interests may, in some sense, galvanise and mobilise the Iranian public against the current administration. But that didn't happen.
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Opinion | Is Trump Starting To Regret Backing Netanyahu's Iran Gameplan?
Netanyahu may not mind the Iran war, as a prolonged conflict suits him politically. But for the US, it is fast shaping up to be a disaster.
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Opinion | Amid Growing LPG Crisis, Why Your Piped Gas May Be The Real Winner
While LPG distribution falters amid the Hormuz crisis, PNG supplies to households in major cities continue largely uninterrupted. Will it last?
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Opinion | The Big 'Oil' Lesson For India As Hormuz Chokes
The fact is, we have neglected the oil and gas sector for the last 20 years. Many of us got carried away with the West-led "demonise oil, prioritise green energy" narrative.
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On Disagreement, Democracy: An Open Letter To Mani Shankar Aiyar - By Shashi Tharoor
Congress's Lok Sabha MP Shashi Tharoor responds to a recent "assessment" by Mani Shankar Aiyar of his positions - and 'character'.
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Opinion | Nitish Kumar, And The Great Bihar Promise That Never Came
Nitish Kumar had the chance to transform Bihar. He had built enough political equity and developed administrative chops to bring about real change. Yet, he did not.
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Opinion | 'We Protect America, Not Vice Versa': Inside Gulf's Growing Frustration With Trump
Arab states are increasingly waking up to the bitter truth that the US compromised the region's safety for Israel's war goals, despite millions of dollars spent on security arrangements.
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Opinion | This Poll Season, Mamata Banerjee's Hindu Outreach Goes The Extra Mile
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has been on an overdrive for about a year, to announce and inaugurate temples in various corners of the state, amid BJP allegations that she is "appeasing" the minority community.
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Opinion | The One Big Reason This Indian T20i Team Is A Nightmare For The Rest
Overall, India have way more match-winners in their line-up than any other team. In fact, such is the depth of India's T20i resources that they can field two or three separate teams, and they will all be world-class.
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Opinion | How India Should Navigate A 'New' Nepal
A government seeking to diversify Nepal's external partnerships will attempt to balance ties between New Delhi and Beijing, a development that will inject some inevitable tension.
