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US Knowledge Inc vs Donald TrumpAmerican universities face potential threats from the White House. These threats include funding cuts and restrictions on research. Univers...
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Donald Trump’s administration sends news broadcast employees on administrative leaveUS President Donald Trump last week signed an executive order directing Voice of America and other federal offices to be eliminated to the ...
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View: U.S.-China cold war will have more than two sidesThere is no question that today, forced to choose between allying oneself to a democracy or an autocracy, most countries would again choose...
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'Democracy prevailed,' Biden says after US Electoral College confirms his winThe vote, typically a formality, assumed outsized significance in light of President Donald Trump's extraordinary effort to subvert the pro...
15 Dec, 2020, 10.45 AM IST
India-US ties continue to benefit from Vajpayee's vision: Michael PompeoVajpayee, one of India's most charismatic leaders and inspirational orators, died yesterday at the age of 93.
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Nationalism is healthy only if it’s used to make the country betterFascism thrives when the conventional political order is in disarray, citizens are divided and confused, and a leader emerges who can explo...
03 Jun, 2018, 11.14 AM IST
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25 Dec, 2016, 03.27 PM IST
US flag raised in Cuba after 54 yearsThe US and Cuba officially restored their diplomatic ties last month with reopening of the Cuban Embassy in Washington.
14 Aug, 2015, 10.03 PM IST
World lauds US-Cuba surprise move to restore tiesObama discussed Cuba with the Pope during his visit to the Vatican in March and continued to work with the Holy See thereafter.
18 Dec, 2014, 08.36 PM IST
Why the process of political awakening in India needs protest singers like Pete SeegerWhy is it that in India, social unrest has not quite connected to music? This is particularly galling since India has a long and rich herit...
02 Feb, 2014, 04.37 AM IST
Sunday ET: Why Marxists retain some relevance in the subcontinent culturally, if not politicallyMarxists, Maoists, Leninists, Trotskyists all are welcome under the broad Incredible India umbrella.
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- Always appreciate enduring and brand-building work: Adrian Botan
'Romania is a relatively young advertising market - it all started 20 years ago after the fall of the communism.'
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Give Bush credit for Arab revoltBush deserves credit for the Arab uprising , even if the promotion of democracy was not the sole motivation for his interventions.
17 Mar, 2011, 02.14 AM IST
- I’m for liberal, social democracy: Marta Meszaros
Marta Meszaros’s family migrated from Hungary to Russia in 1935. Marta was two years old at that time. It was the peak of the Stalinist reg...
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