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Busting the myth about RBI interventions

The widespre ad misconception that the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) “intervention” (selling dollars), in India’s inter-bank “foreign exchange” (forex) market, by itself, depletes India’s dollar reserves, needs to be cleared.

Pakistan plays to its internal audience

Speaking as the co-chair at the Arria-formula meeting of the Security Council on ‘Bridging the Implementation Gap: Security Council Resolutions and the Maintenance of International Peace and Security,’ Pakistan’s permanent member to the UN, Asim Iftikhar Ahmad, raised Kashmir as expected.

Sacred Trust

The controversy surrounding alleged irregularities in donations to the Ram Janmabhoomi temple is no longer merely about missing cash or precious metals.

Beyond Rescue

The devastation caused by Venezuela’s twin earthquakes will ultimately be measured not only by the number of lives lost, but by what the disaster reveals about the strength ~ or weakness ~ of the institutions expected to protect citizens when catastrophe strikes.

Can Bengal lead again?

In May 1826, a seventeen-year-old youth, Henry Louis Vivian Derozio, joined the ten-year-old Hindu College as a teacher and revolutionised the character of the institution.

China’s gain

The most recent report issued in 2022, the year when Beijing ended the ‘zero-Covid’ policy, showed that only 7 per cent of the graduating class, including both undergraduates and graduates, chose to study abroad.

Bleak Eurozone

The Eurozone is poised to escape a severe contraction, a relief in itself, yet the growth figures projected for the coming year are far from inspiring.

Meeting of Minds

The effect of such a conflu- ence was that they together undertook a formidable evolu- tionary experiment aiming at a most explicit One-ness, which exists not by suppressing variety but, instead, an infinitely wide and comprehensive conscious- ness takes up in itself, assimi- lates and furthers all manifesta- tions of multiplicity without los- ing itself in the process.

Redefine progress to ensure a safer world

Progress has been frequently understood to mean improvements in technology as well as in material goods and services making possible increased and wider access to comforts and luxuries.