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.
‘We have a combination of perfect refinement with great creative imagination. Bharat Mata stands on the green earth. Behind her is the blue sky. Beneath the exquisite little feet is a curved line of four misty white lotuses. She has the four arms that always, to Indian thinking, indicate the divine power. Her sari is severe, even to puritanism, in its enfolding lines. And behind the noble sincerity of eyes and brow we are awed by the presence of the broad white halo. Shiksha DikshaAnna Bastra the four gifts of the Motherland to her children, she offers in her four hands,‘ wrote Sister Nivedita
On 14 October 2023, the long awaited ferry service between India and Sri Lanka was green-flagged. It is after four decades that the regular ferry service is being restarted.
As we stand at the crossroads of American politics, the recent weeks have added a new layer of complexity to the transformation of the Republican Party.
The alleged compromise of the Covid-testing database of Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) should give us all pause.
Underlying the religious sanctity conferred by the Islamists, there is an irreducible attachment not just to the West Bank and Gaza Strip, but to the whole of Palestine. Reflective of this, the 1988 Charter of Hamas describes the Jewish state on Palestinian territory as an utter absurdity that will be inevitably destroyed. Destruction of Israel is not just the goal but the precondition of liberating Palestine.
