De Facto describes practices that exist in reality in the rule of any Government or Law. Even though they are not officially recognized by laws, they are existent. De facto standards are standards in ...

Russia will de facto and de jure withdraw from the Minsk Agreements if it recognizes the self-proclaimed entities in the temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions. Foreign ...

De facto, what is happening, and de jure, what is legal, don’t always run together. And after a long time, de facto beats de jure. What’s a long time at the Temple Mount? When I was a child in the US, ...

We congratulate Sheikh Hasina for winning her fifth term as the prime minister, and fourth consecutively—the longest ever in our history. Today, in Bangladesh, everything is centred around her, which ...

Minister of Defense of Ukraine Oleksii Reznikov believes that Ukraine has become a de facto member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and will soon join the bloc de jure as well. The ...

Ukraine does not plan to give up control over Donbas, and any conflict resolution formats may include economic zones, but do not provide for the recognition of Donbas as Russian. According to him, ...

The other day I had a conversation with a man less than half my age, a well-educated democratic Pakistani, and on-the-ball as far as happenings are concerned in what is not Jinnah's Pakistan but ...

New Delhi: Asserting that Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi is virtually leading the party, senior party leader Jairam Ramesh today said that "Rahul Gandhi is de facto Congress chief but he should ...

In the British army, upon which were modelled the armies of India and Pakistan, 'field marshal' was the highest military rank. A field marshal never retires — the rank is conferred for life. The ...