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Union Government needs to carefully develop appropriate stratagems on how best to counter the recent lone wolf attacks by terrorists in the Kashmir valley. The developments in Afghanistan with Taliban in power have posed a new challenge. Of course Taliban has assured that its soil will not be used for any terrorists attack against any neighbouring country. But has the Taliban have complete control over all the different terror outfits on its soil? Just resting on assurances will not do. Adequate preparedness is needed. As regards the nearest neighbour Pakistan its intentions are known.

Fear is the key! That’s the title of a James Hadley Chase novel. It had a Native American doing targeted killings of rich pokes. The first killing is followed by a second. The third body gets the cops thinking: This killer is killing only the stinking rich. The fear sinks in and then comes the extortion calls. Of course, the rich and famous empty their safes one after the other – ‘Fear is the key!’

Deshbhaktas’ beating their drum of ‘nationalism’ reached such a high decibel that has become deafening. India’s leadership, in the name of nationalism, reached even such a point when it decided to abstain from the voting in the United Nations which passed the resolution that recognized access to clean environment a human right. In this case the Deshbhaktas’ nationalism clearly goes against humanity, since 24 per cent of all global deaths, roughly 13.7 million a year, occur because they are exposed to human greed that has polluted air, water, and land, and are even subjected to chemical exposure.

On the September 16, 2021, the administration of Jammu and Kashmir, headed by lieutenant-governor Manoj Sinha, issued an administrative order titled ‘Verification of Character and Antecedents of Government employees’ (GO No. 957-JK (GAD) of 2021). Under the order, a government employee can be dismissed for mere “association with” any person involved in or aiding acts of “sabotage, espionage, treason, terrorism, subversion, sedition, secession, facilitating foreign interference, incitement to violence or any other unconstitutional act.” Further, a government employee can also be dismissed if their immediate family or anyone sharing the same residential space is or has been involved in any of the acts listed above, “directly or indirectly”, because they might subject the employee “to duress, thereby posing a grave security risk”.

New Delhi: It rained medals for India as the country swept all 12 available on the last day of competitions, to finish on top with a whopping 43-medals, in the ISSF Junior World Championship Rifle/Pistol/Shotgun at the Las Palmas Shooting range in Lima (Peru).

New Delhi: Admitting that the Hockey Stars Awards have created an unwarranted controversy International Hockey Federation (FIH) on Monday said that it will work on the future awards with the global hockey community and will engage with many stakeholders to come up with a process that receives the support of most, and then go with it for next year.

New Delhi: The Delhi Capitals opener Prithvi Shaw has promised a strong comeback in qualifier 2 saying "I really believe that we can do something special in the next match and go through to the IPL Final."

Decades after Franz Fanon, perceptive readers’ community the world over will queue at bookstands for books of Zanzibari fiction writer Abdulrazak Gurnah, the Nobel laureate for literature in 2021. From his debut novel ‘Memory of Departure’ (1987) to Afterlives (2020) one is acquainted with the plight of coastal Muslim communities and their confrontation with European imperialism. They were never abandoned by Muslim empire.

The politics of the post-cold war period were originally dominated by the famous claim of Francis Fukuyama that we had reached “the end of history” — neoliberalism was now the only game in town and in the words of our own champion of Chicago school economics, there was “no alternative” to letting the market run riot.

The Scheduled Tribes (ST) constituted 9.4 per cent of the population of India and are the poorest, with 65 million of the 129 million people living in multidimensional poverty, and among all multidimensional poor five out of six are from lower tribes or castes. This revelation by the Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2021, Unmasking disparities by ethnicity, caste, and gender, by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) is indeed shocking.