Don’t believe a word of Trump’s baloney
There he was, sitting next to PM Narendra Modi, gnashing his teeth and lying through them.
There he was, sitting next to PM Narendra Modi, gnashing his teeth and lying through them.
When the government insists that an Indian passport is not proof of Indian citizenship, something more than a legal clarification is at stake.
The most enduring consequence of a war is often not what happens on the battlefield, but what it reveals about the institutions that authorise it.
At its zenith, England was known as a nation of shopkeepers, where trade followed the crown; this was however interchangeable ~ the East India Company accumulated an empire, many times the size of the mother country.
India has its own long and bitter experience of this asymmetry, and Jammu and Kashmir is its sharpest instance.
There was a time when devaluation of a country’s currency was a national tragedy; devaluation of the Indian rupee in 1949, 1966 and 1991 caused widespread consternation, but with the adoption of floating exchange rates the rupee is devalued almost daily, with few people, if any, even noting the falling value of the rupee.
Saudi Arabia is grappling with the formidable task of reinventing its economy, steering away from the dependence on oil that has long defined its financial landscape.
In the wake of the global push for manufacturing resurgence, governments worldwide seem entranced by the allure of factories as a panacea for a myriad of societal ills.
As the Brown University’s estimates for the ‘War on Terror’ of the 21st century have made clear, if indirect impacts of war are included then mortality can be many times more than the deaths caused directly by war and conflict.
Aiming to create awareness among the citizens, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation is to launch a pilot project for screening and detection of rare diseases among children.
