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.
Belated miracles or epic rescue acts not having been budgeted for anywhere, next year’s Summer Olympics in Paris could send the quadrennial showpiece event inching back to a split
In Western media the shockingly successful Hamas attack launched from Gaza is routinely compared to 9/11 or even Pearl Harbor, with all the odious negatives attached to those pivotal events, ruing fanatical foes for striking what is portrayed as a totally blameless target.
The latest developments raise concerns about the emergence of a new nuclear arms race, one that might be even more challenging to avert than the Cold War-era standoff between the United States and the former Soviet Union.
This programme holds the potential to revolutionise the academic journey of students, enhance access to opportunities and streamline administrative processes for educational institutions.
Will Dhaka become an isolated island, disconnected from the rest of the country as it was on December 10 last year and July 28 this year?
