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Broken Chain

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s promise of fast-track courts for paper-leak cases is an acknowledgement that India’s examination crisis can no longer be answered with arrests and assurances alone.

Field Marshal State

There is no officially published change in the numerical position of Pakistan’s Asim Munir in the Warrant of Precedence by virtue of his elevation to the rank of Field Marshal.

Elite Warning

For more than two decades, Vladimir Putin’s compact with Russia’s business elite was straightforward: accumulate wealth, but leave politics to the Kremlin.

Quiet Warning

A rise in the unemployment rate from 4.8 per cent to 5 per cent may look like statistical noise, the kind of decimal-point movement that excites economists more than ordinary citizens.