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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 economy

That the Chinese economy is in trouble is evident, but experts differ wildly on the country’s growth projections.

COP28 pledge

In a world grappling with the urgent need for environmental action, a ray of hope emerges as over 60 countries rally behind a ground-breaking deal.

The Numbers Game~II

Minorityism, as a social and political principle, was first propounded and popularized by John Bordley Rawls (1921-2002), an American moral, legal and political philosopher of the liberal tradition, in his seminal work A Theory of Justice (1971).

Cameron back

The surprising appointment of former Prime Minister David Cameron as foreign minister marks a strategic move by Mr Sunak.

Modi Mitra

Beyond the cacophony of political rhetoric, this outreach ini- tiative signals a nuanced strategy to court the Muslim vote, a demographic historically distant from the party.