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.
In 2021, tourist arrivals were 149,833, versus record 1.2 million in 2019; last month, 16,975 tourists were welcomed. To preserve the depleting reserves, the central bank in recent months has introduced several measures to discourage imports. This is a Catch-22.
Leaders of the agitation in Ottawa as also on the US-Canada border have been arbitrarily arrested without charge. Indian and Canadian governments handled protests on their soil employing different tactics. India held eleven rounds of talks with protestors seeking a middle path, while Canada refused to discuss demands.
To ensure effective implementation of their demands, the legislators called for an unspecified “verification” process, after which Iran would act to scale back its nuclear advances to come into full compliance with the terms of the JCPOA again. After waiting for a year following the US exit, Iran started gradually boosting its nuclear capabilities in 2019.
It is a high-risk strategy that US President Joe Biden is following because it includes disseminating information in near-real-time ~ such as was witnessed when the Americans went to town last week with the accusation that the Russians has begun a “false flag operation” to pre-empt Mr Putin’s next moves in Ukraine ~ which risks exposing important sources and methods of intelligence collection.
If Russia calls a halt to NATO recruitment in and around Ukraine, indignant expansionists accordingly cry foul. A ritualized dance-like element suffuses these familiar geopolitical maneuvers, which savvy diplomats comprehend and, if allowed, can work out. The highly combustible ingredient is the hysterical media chorus of imminent invasion, sedulously stoked by Western states. Austrian wit Karl Krauss long ago observed that statesmen typically tell lies and then believe them after they read them in the newspapers. That is the supreme danger a stray spark generating a conflagration - and not the objective situation, which can be remedied by old-fashioned diplomacy
