A tribute to cricketer Salim Durani by friend Partha Chatterjee

The country is struggling to remain afloat as it is disowned by its own people, abandoned and set adrift in an ocean flooded by disloyalty, corruption and selfishness.

In the UK, the government recognises the importance of critical thinking amongst the masses to identify fake news and promotes it through greater government access and explainer journalism. It is time the Indian government withdraws these amendments and probes where the fake news flows into the system.

In the coming days, efforts to wean India away from its traditional friend Russia will intensify, and New Delhi will face many difficult choices. What needs to be seen is whether it has enough diplomatic guile to ensure that it does not find itself in a difficult spot that haunts it far beyond its short G20 presidency.

A bureaucrat would fall into a combination of the following categories. Honest, efficient, not pliable and dishonest, inefficient, pliable. It would be an honest admission to accept that a combination of honest, efficient, and non-pliable bureaucrat has become a rare occurrence.

The expose of the Adani group by Hindenburg Research that raises damning questions about the absence of regulation in the country - is getting murkier by the day. But the Belekeri port scam in which a colossal quantity of iron ore was stolen and shipped to China provides both evidence and perspective on how billionaires in India were built.

The government chose to get the Speaker to expunge remarks that show the government in poor light, but does that work? It’s really unusual that the Speaker was asking the opposition leaders to prove their charges before they can be allowed in the House for a discussion or for a joint parliamentary probe. Read on!

Recent clashes between Israel and Palestine could lead to a dangerous escalation. Therefore the UN and the international community must come forward to negotiate a ‘Truce Deal’ between the two nations.