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  The other Delhi is distant yet

  by Satish Deshpande | Updated at 12:00am on February 13, 2020

  The Delhi elections have only underlined the vast gulf between the national power centre and the regional state, writes Satish Deshpande BEING both the symbolic...

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  Need for transition that could unify Lanka

  Jehan Perera | Updated at 12:00am on February 12, 2020

  THIS year’s Independence Day national event was significant for two reasons. It was the first to be celebrated under the leadership of president Gotabaya Rajapaksa...

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  Foreigners and other Indians

  Jawed Naqvi | Updated at 12:00am on February 12, 2020

  Narendra Modi’s idea of the Indian nation with frozen boundaries guarded by imported anti-missile systems borrows as much from mediaeval Europe as from the division...

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  What happens to Assange will happen to the rest

  Chris Hedges | Updated at 12:00am on February 12, 2020

  DAVID Morales, the indicted owner of the Spanish private security firm Undercover Global, is being investigated by Spain’s high court for allegedly providing the CIA...

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  Burchett, Pilger and Assange

  Rick Sterling | Updated at 12:00am on February 11, 2020

  AUSTRALIA has produced extraordinary journalists across three generations: Wilfred Burchett (deceased in 1983), John Pilger (80 years old but still active) and Julian Assange (48...

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  A nation for the persecuted

  Harsh Mander | Updated at 09:38pm on February 10, 2020

  IN HIS historic address to the Parliament of the World’s Religions in Chicago in 1893, Swami Vivekananda declared, ‘I am proud to belong to a...

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  Palestinian rights and western duplicity

  Ron Forthofer | Updated at 12:00am on February 11, 2020

  PRESIDENT Trump’s fraudulent Middle East deal runs roughshod over Palestinian rights, harms long-term Israeli interests and is only the latest example of the US arrogance...

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  Memories of Magura 1994

  M Serajul Islam | Updated at 12:00am on February 11, 2020

  THE by-election to the Magura 2 parliamentary seat was held in 1994 after the incumbent member of parliament had died. It was a seminal point...

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  Libya is being torn apart by outsiders

  | Updated at 09:32pm on February 09, 2020

  WITH the United States walking out of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action — more commonly known as the Iran accord — we all enter...

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  Today’s ‘central threat’ is …

  Farooque Chowdhury | Updated at 12:00am on February 10, 2020

  IN TODAY’S tumultuous world, the United States faces many threats. It is, sometimes, terrorism. It is, to an important part of the state machine, climate...