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.
Based on India’s insistence, Canada withdrew 41 of its diplomats. Melanie Joly, the Canadian foreign minister stated, “Revoking the diplomatic immunity of 41 diplomats is not only unprecedented, but also contrary to international law.
The USA is back in the throes of West Asian geopolitics and its bloody wars. The immediate provocation for its pivot back from the IndoPacific to this troubled region was provided by terror group Hamas’ 7 October barbarism in southern Israel.
Every land has its tragedy. Europe has both class and nation, the United States has race and Latin America has its politics ~ the politics of anti-politics. Some tragedies are, of course, alluring. But tragedies are also what Aristotle calls “an imitation of an action that is admirable.”
If you think Jamal Khasoggi-type alleged eliminations are Saudi Arabia’s area of speciality, you implicitly charge the country with limitations in its imaginative expanse when it comes to driving a lesson home.
Nawaz Sharif is back in Pakistan after spending four years in exile in London. In fact, he had taken the plea of ill health in November 2019 when he was in jail for corruption, claiming that his platelet count had dropped
