Opinion

  Wasbir Hussain A UN report says although China has 21 per cent of the world’s population, it contains only seven per cent of the world’s freshwater supplies. It took...

  Ejaz Haider During my reporting days in the Nineties, every six months or so, I would come across an identical news report, tucked in some corner of the back...

  Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on the Gujarat campaign trail, made the first mistake, though in his mind he must have considered it to be an...

  Jayant V Narlikar One important saying I first encountered as a schoolboy was: Time and tide wait for nobody. I was reminded of it several years later when I...

  Karan Thapar Politicians are usually very careful about what they say in public. They know it can be used against them. Consequently they have a knack of speaking at...

  Khalid Al-Jaber & Giorgio Cafiero Despite warnings from close US allies, US President Donald Trump controversially recognised Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and started the process of moving Washington’s embassy...

  Wang Yi This year, we have taken active, innovative and pioneering steps, and made many breakthroughs and important headway in our diplomatic work. First, we have drawn up the...

  RYara Hawari Damascus Gate on Friday was awash with journalists, poised at the ready with their cameras, eager to capture the first of the clashes and provide the world...

  David A Love & Vijay Das i On this day 69 years ago the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, sketching the foundation of human rights...

  Saeed Naqvi It would be shortsighted to allow the fifth anniversary of the Aam Aadmi Party to be drowned out by other, more bleak anniversaries. Something new had happened...