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.
Riding high on nationalism, China is very critical of the West but is pragmatic enough to avoid any serious confrontation with it.
Taliban forces recently stopped around 100 Afghan girls from going abroad to pursue their higher education at the University of Dubai. Since the takeover in 2021, the Taliban regime has banned or restricted education for girls beyond class six in Afghanistan.
In the realm of international relations, convergences of interests often lead to intriguing alliances. One such alliance that has captured the world’s attention is the blossoming partnership between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping.
There used to be a time when International Olympic Committee high-ups visiting Asia turned their authoritative noses up at the media’s half-amusing queries about cricket’s likely inclusion in multi-discipline events in the future
As Generative AI becomes more sophisticated, there is a concern that it could start making decisions that humans do not understand or agree with. This fear is often linked to the concept of the 'singularity', a hypothetical point in the future when AI surpasses human intelligence.
