Announcements almost every other day compel us to believe that India is now the fifth largest economy in the world; that India will be a $5 trillion economy very soon; that India will be the third largest economy of the world in 2027, and that India will become a developed nation in 2047.
Caste dynamics often play a pivotal role, especially in a state as politically significant as Uttar Pradesh.
The hunt for the origins of Covid-19 has for the past four years been a tangled web of politics, power struggles, and international finger-pointing.
the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) refused to recognise the current geological time as the Anthropocene (Human) Epoch because adding an Anthropocene Epoch ~ and terminating the Holocene Epoch ~ was not supported by geological standards used to define epochs.
There is a raging memefest in the Arab world about the Jordanian King Abdullah II. One of the most caustic meme images is of the Arab King wearing an Israeli Military uniform.
The Russian President has cast what he calls a “special military operation” as a confrontation with the United States which he says is threatening the country by meddling in its backyard. The West has called it a “brutal land grab of a sovereign country”.
If under Western pressure, India had voted against Russia in the UN Security Council or in the Human Rights Council, while Pakistan and China abstained, would it have benefitted India at a time when she faces a security threat in its neighbourhood? On the contrary, that would have alienated Russia and opened the possibility of a Russo-China-Pakistan entente ranged against India
The elevation of Shahbaz Sharif, who is presently leader of the opposition as Prime Minister is unlikely to bring political stability to Pakistan. Presently, both political parties, PML Nawaz and PPP, have come together to depose Imran Khan, but it is doubtful that this political unity would remain once they start running the government.
Luckily, stock markets do aim to support ESG, with Hong Kong, Singapore and Jakarta all exploring the launch of wide-scale voluntary carbon markets. These platforms would match holders of nature based or technology climate assets with potential buyers of carbon credits through a credentialed, secure, trusted process that could be global on both ends (investors and carbon assets).
Reeling under a massive Covid-19 outbreak of the BA.2 variant, what is happening in the city of 26 million people which accounts for 3-5 per cent of China’s GDP according to some estimates, is an illustration of the overreach of an absolutist state.
