On November 3, 1988, Abdullah Luthufi, a once-prominent Maldivian businessman, allegedly in connivance with Ibrahim Nasir, the country’s former president, hired about 100 gunmen from the People’s Liberation Organization of
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India-Israel friendship is fine, but New Delhi has higher stakes in the Muslim world
In the last week of December, as soon as news broke that India voted at the UN general assembly in favour of the resolution against the Trump administration’s decision to
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Doklam stand-off: China yields, but India can’t afford to relax
On August 28, India’s ministry of external affairs (MEA) and China’s ministry of foreign affairs announced the end of the stand-off between the troops of the two countries at Doka
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In Nirbhaya case, gruesome crime meets grisly ‘justice’ in Supreme Court. Mob celebrates.
When the banner is unfurled, all the reasons go inside the trumpet. — Ukrainian proverb As the Supreme Court of India upheld the death sentence awarded to the four men
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World must not fail Rohingya Muslims facing genocide in Myanmar
Today, the wretched Rohingya Muslims of Myanmar are again facing a genocidal campaign against them by the Burmese government. The recent wave of atrocities against them started with the killing
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