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 consequences of the first major military conflict after World War II were many. A small country Korea lost about four million soldiers and civilians. Five million people became homeless. Even the fall of communism and reunification of Germany could not reunite the two Koreas. Suspicion between the two persists with continuous ceasefire violations and the fact that it continues to be one of the most fortified borders in the world
As if on the rebound, he is now in Russia to meet President Putin, the same Putin who 10 years ago cancelled his own trip to Islamabad, citing the insecurity caused by PTI’s container dharnas. The PM has gone to Moscow ostensibly to strengthen the ‘ropes of sand’ that bind us. The timing of this visit is fraught with implications
The Wildlife Institute of India has identified Chamta as a forest block with a notably low density of the tiger population. However, the problem of relocation is rooted in the fact that the “optimum carrying capacity” of a forest is not a static concept. Therefore, relocating tigers to a forest that is different from where they came is a fraught proposition.
The Bench is dealing with the PIL filed by the child rights activist, Anubha Srivastava Sahai, challenging the decision of the CBSE, ICSE and state boards to conduct this year’s exams through the physical mode. In a stunning observation, the Bench stated that no PIL can be filed on these issues as only an “aggrieved person” (aka the student) can file such a petition if his/her right is in any way violated.
Overplaying the Russian hand on Ukraine could have debilitating economic consequences for Islamabad, as even the Chinese are carefully calibrating their own stance to assert that Ukraine's sovereignty should be 'respected and safeguarded'. While the optics of taking on the Americans makes for muscular politics for the beleaguered Imran Khan, who is struggling to stitch together a compelling justification for his own leadership, overenthusiasm in politics, as has been his wont, could be disastrous personally, politically, and for Pakistan
