Opinion

  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...

  Ramzy Baroud When the first Intifada commenced in December 1987, I had just turned 15. At the cusp of manhood, I had entered my first year at the famed...

  Flavia Agnes The media reports on the Supreme Court’s Hadiya case hearing on November 27, show that even during the tense hearing, which lasted around two-and-a-half hours amid pindrop...

  Mariam Barghouti Palestinians have been experiencing a collective sense of anxiety and anger ever since President Donald Trump announced that the US formally recognises Jerusalem as the capital of...

  Mohan Guruswamy The scion of the former Gond kings of Chandagarh or Chandrapur, now in Maharashtra, Birshah Atram, was recently visiting the Gond homelands in the former composite Adilabad...

  Dr. V. Sridhar Dr. V. Sridhar, a professor at the Centre for IT and Public Policy at International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore, has authored two books on telecom....

  Abhijit Bhattacharyya Even a layman will understand its importance. Thirty five years ago, in the post-Mao Zedong era, when India had an imported fleet of eight Foxtrot-class diesel electric...