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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.

The one with the last laugh

Hi, my name is Matthew, although you may know me by another name. My friends call me Matty. And I should be dead. These opening words penned by Matthew Perry in his memoir – Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing – today bear an unforeseen weight.

US dilemma

The Israel-Hamas conflict has once again thrust the United States into the spotlight in West Asia, prompting questions about its strategic intentions and the potential for military involvement.

Maldives challenge

The recent election of President-elect Mohamed Muizzu in the Maldives and his renewed commitment to remove Indian military personnel from the country have introduced a complex and evolving dimension to India’s foreign policy in the region.

Brave Voices

Narges Mohammadi now faces an even more unsure future as the already fractured relations between Iran and the ‘Free World‘ have been wounded further with talk of Iran‘s hand in the recent Hamas attack on Israel. The leverage that some powers had with the authorities in Tehran will count for nought as Iran will face further sanctions and punitive measures should the proof of its purported complicity come to light