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‘India is much more dangerous than it was 10 years ago’
| Updated at 12:00am on May 30, 2019
Celebrated Indian novelist Arundhati Roy, best known for works such as The God of Small Things and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, has also made...
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The ‘nobody’ who led everyone nowhere
| Updated at 12:00am on May 30, 2019
Doubtless Theresa will be remembered as a victim of circumstances, but those circumstances should never have arisen in the first place. It takes a peculiar...
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Demise of the republic?
by Nazarul Islam | Updated at 12:00am on May 29, 2019
A DEBATE is taking place behind the closed doors of our nation’s think tanks. It is disturbing: could the American republic meet its demise just...
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A time to read, a time to remember Prof Abu Mahmud
Afsan Chowdhury | Updated at 12:00am on May 29, 2019
READING to review a book of this kind is not easy but as it belongs to a past almost lost. This is particularly so when...
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The US-China decoupling
| Updated at 12:00am on May 29, 2019
The long, dense economic relationship appears to have passed its peak, writes Patrick Lawrence PRESIDENT Donald Trump’s trade war with China is swiftly taking a...
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Modi’s credo of divide and rule
| Updated at 12:00am on May 29, 2019
India is following an international trend: with the victory of the Bharatiya Janata Party, a party succeeds which can clearly be located on the extreme...
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Towards an anti-fascist AI
by Dan McQuillan | Updated at 12:00am on May 28, 2019
COMPUTERS are essentially just faster collections of vacuum tubes. How can they emulate human activities like recognising faces or assessing criminality?Think about a least squares...
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Are rare earths China’s ultimate weapon?
by F William Engdahl | Updated at 12:00am on May 28, 2019
IN THE dramatic escalation of tariff escalations and trade war tensions between China and the USA, China President Xi Jinping made a well-timed visit to...
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India politics: not a time to agonise
by John Samuel | Updated at 12:00am on May 28, 2019
POLITICS is not a rational enterprise. Electoral politics in India is about how well a political party or an alliance manages the perceptions, identity and...
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Let period be the last reason to miss school
by Samia Mallik and Shahrukh Mirza | Updated at 12:00am on May 28, 2019
THE first time 16-year-old Sumaiya had her period, she was very frightened. She ran home from school, wondering if she was ill, and whether she...