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On January 3 this year, a US military operation in Caracas forcibly brought Nicolás Maduro into American custody. Maduro, the former Venezuelan President, now faces trial in the Southern District of New…
By Sohail Khan · 10 Sep
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The Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls (ERs) is actually a Special Intensive Exclusion (SIE). How else can the Election Commission of India (ECI), emboldened perhaps by the Supreme Court’s endorsement,…
By Sohail Khan · 10 Sep
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When I went to Kailash for the first time in 2006, I went with 168 people from many nations. The conditions were very harsh at that time. We lived in small tents…
By Sohail Khan · 10 Sep
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When Prime Minister Narendra Modi met President Vladimir Putin in Bishkek on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, he publicly repeated the counsel he has long offered Russia’s leader: End the…
By Sohail Khan · 10 Sep
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Remember the villain from Gladiator? Emperor Commodus was quite a character in real life, too. Among other things, he renamed the city of Rome “Colonia Lucia Annia Commodiana” — the Romans would…
By Sohail Khan · 10 Sep
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For the first time since World War II, a far-right political party has decisively won a state election in Germany. The thumping victory of the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD, Alternative for Germany)…
By Sohail Khan · 10 Sep
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With the Sensex down 1.08 per cent, on Wednesday, Indian stock markets ended the day in the red. Weakness was observed across the board, with small and midcap indices also witnessing a…
By Sohail Khan · 10 Sep
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Muscle cramps are usually associated with familiar triggers such as dehydration, prolonged physical activity or muscle fatigue. But when cramps keep occurring without an obvious explanation, people may wonder whether they could…
By Sohail Khan · 10 Sep
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The crisis in West Asia is escalating on two fronts. On Tuesday, the U.S. said that its forces had struck five Iranian oil tankers in the Gulf waters after what it claimed…
By Sohail Khan · 10 Sep
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The district administration in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, went to great lengths to detain 25-year-old Delhi University law student and activist Akriti Chaudhary on April 11, 2026, in connection with protests by workers…
By Sohail Khan · 10 Sep