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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.

After the Uprising

Bangladesh’s latest election marks a dramatic return to competitive politics after years of political closure, but it does so through a mostly familiar cast of characters.

Reframing Inflation

A quiet but consequential shift has just taken place in how India understands inflation. The latest retail inflation reading, the first under a revamped price index, is not merely another data point for economists to debate.

Water Budgeting

Water resources are finite, and are critical for life and economic growth. The per capita water availability in India has declined over the years and is likely to reach a water scarce situation in the coming days.

Budget has a demand problem

For much of economic history, the idea that production would eventually generate its own demand rested on a set of strong assumptions: flexible prices, full employment, and a financial system that transmitted savings smoothly into investment.