Opinion

Thursday 07/April/2016 10:46 AM

So to speak: Out to make a quick buck

We all agree that Oman has come a long way in terms of development. Thousands of accolades have been showered on the country, but it is time we stopped in...

Wednesday 06/April/2016 17:12 PM

Will Britain choose irrelevance?

When voters in the United Kingdom go to the polls on June 23 to decide whether their country should leave the European Union, the issues they will have to...

Wednesday 06/April/2016 16:51 PM

The Soviet Union is falling apart again

Armenia and Azerbaijan have announced a truce after three days of fierce fighting in the secessionist region of Nagorno-Karabakh, but the flare-up is proof...

Wednesday 06/April/2016 16:38 PM

Cruz and Sanders raise stakes in Wisconsin

Wisconsin gave a boost to the Bernie Sanders and Ted Cruz insurgencies Tuesday, protracting the Democratic presidential race and lessening already shaky...

Wednesday 06/April/2016 15:42 PM

United Nations Libya coup takes shape

Though this newspaper kindly just published a day ago my piece on Libya, Farcical drama is creating a fluid situation in Libya (April 4)the incredibly fast...

Tuesday 05/April/2016 17:27 PM

In India, a 'workfare' programme that works

Over the last 10 years in India, perhaps no other law has sparked such sustained debate as the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act,...

Tuesday 05/April/2016 17:13 PM

Iqbal and the power of the intellect

The recent events in India at the famed Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) have thrown up several questions. First, what does the idea of ‘nationalism’...