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.
All available indications suggest strongly that USA’s hostile relations with the next two big powers - China and Russia - will dominate world politics in the near future.
October is the month for the Annual Meetings of the World Bank/IMF, held this year in Marrakesh in Morocco. It is also the time when key reports on global economic and financial health are published.
In a rare prime-time address to Americans last Thursday, President Joe Biden tackled the challenging task of navigating the complex world of international politics and diplomacy.
An erstwhile Indian Olympic Association eminence grise once bristled indignantly as, after the Rio Games, a gymnast from eastern India had been caught for doping: “The fool couldn’t fool them,” he bellowed.
Opposition parties who are often at loggerheads with each other in some states need to tone down their mutual bickering and show tact and maturity to convince electors that politics is the art of the possible and despite being contenders at regional level, they are committed to work together at the national level so as to produce a credible alternative
