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.
Poland’s political landscape remains in a state of flux, with recent developments challenging the optimism ~ after last month’s election ~ that had initially surrounded the transition from eight years of nationalist rule to a more liberal government under Donald Tusk.
In the six days following Hamas’s dastardly attack on October 7 that killed 1,400 civilians and soldiers in Israel and injured more than 5,000, Israel dropped 6,000 bombs on the Gaza Strip, a thin, 41-km by 10-km strip of land on the Mediterranean coast which is also one of the most densely populated areas in the world with 2.3 million residents.
These talks are part of a broader commitment by both nations to engage in dialogue and exchanges on various critical issues, including the implementation of international arms control treaties.
In late 2022, ahead of some state elections, the PMGKAY was extended, and it has now been granted another five-year extension, demonstrating a commitment to food security.
Pakistan and Afghanistan have a shared but contentious history, overlapping identities, a disputed border, divided ethnicity and bifurcated tribes.
