| Netanyahu failed to offer any viable alternatives to Iran talks: Obama |
 US President Barack Obama has dismissed warnings about Iran's nuclear programme made by the Israeli prime minister during a controversial speech to the US Congress. Mr Obama said, Benjamin Netanyahu had failed to offer any viable alternatives. Mr Netanyahu strongly criticized the deal being negotiated between western powers and Iran, claiming it could pave its way to the bomb rather than block it. The US Secretary of State, John Kerry is to travel to Saudi Arabia to reassure gulf states that any deal would not strengthen Iran's position in the region. |
Save Dissent to Save Democracy THE rising instances of physical violence and threats against political opponents and the inability to accept dissent must raise huge concerns amongst all of us who see democracy as perhaps the really stellar achievement since Independence. AAP’s attack on BJP headquarters and acts of arson committed under the very noses of their elite leadership; the attacks on Arvind Kejriwal and Manish Sisodia in Gujarat in the last two days; the recent manhandling of the caretaker of journalist Siddharth Varadarajan’s house by some garden variety thugs; and the violence and threats meted out regularly to their political opponents by political parties is surely deplorable and condemnable. This is a fatally flawed trend which will destroy the very foundations of our democratic institutions if not pushed back with all the strength and condemnation that the civil society can mobilise. Replaying the past To begin with, it must be clarified that we should ...
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