Opinion

The status of Urdu became a marker for Muslim identity in the pre-partition Indian subcontinent, and helped legitimise the Two-Nation Theory, based on which...

Buried among the 169 targets contained in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – adopted by the United Nations last September amid a blaze of glitzy...

One of the themes that emerged as I traveled to presidential primaries and caucuses this winter was that the rise of Donald Trump and the one-upmanship...

After reading the article by 'The low price of oil will affect Middle East environmental efforts' (March 7) by Richard Galustian last week on the...

You would think that in this modern era of jet engine technology, travelling would be full of fun. It is not and it is increasingly becoming stressful and...

The very strange US presidential election bears some surprising similarities to the 1996 campaign in Russia -- a momentous event that undermined a fragile...

Nearly three years after Edward Snowden bypassed the intelligence community's own process for reporting wrongdoing and leaked troves of classified...

Russian tennis star Maria Sharapova, the world's highest-paid female athlete, announced on Monday that she had failed a drug test at the Australian Open...

Europe can’t build a wall to keep out Syrian refugees. But European Union leaders did the next best thing from their perspective, announcing an agreement...