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.
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.
The controversy surrounding alleged irregularities in donations to the Ram Janmabhoomi temple is no longer merely about missing cash or precious metals.
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.
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.
Human history is replete with events that emerge as anomalies, challenging the resilience of communities and testing the efficacy of global response mechanisms.
Maritime disputes across the vast South China Sea have ratcheted up in recent years as an increasingly assertive China militarises disputed islands and confronts its regional rivals over their competing claims in the strategically important and resource-rich waterway.
Large-scale protests that erupted in 2022 across Iran, centering on women’s rights, captured the world’s attention.
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) finds itself walking a delicate tight-rope as it strives to maintain diplomatic ties with Israel amid the Gaza conflict.
For a long time, sport contentedly watched performers basking in the adulation of fans. God was in Heaven and all was right with the world. Then came a seismic upheaval.
