In a move that is bound to reignite debates over national identity, immigration, and inclusivity, US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order declaring English as the official language of the United States.
Tamil Nadu’s political landscape is once again dominated by a familiar debate ~ Hindi imposition. Chief Minister M.K. Stalin has revived the decades-old resistance against the language, making it a central theme ah ead of next year’s assembly elections.
India’s relationship with Nepal has always been complex, shaped by historical, cultural, and geographical factors.
Among modern economists, the person who completely revolutionized economic thinking and practice during the Great Depression of 1930s had been John Maynard Keynes whose unconventional ideas contained in his book, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, brought new hopes of salvaging war-ravaged European economies.
Donald Trump and his Vice President JD Vance together targeting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskky in full media glare is a spectacle not witnessed in years.
Countries from across the world met at the 27th Conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), popularly COP 27, to negotiate an international agreement for addressing climate change. A key part of those negotiations is focusing on the commitment of developed countries to provide developing nations with financial support for climate action.
Once upon a time in the village of Narayanpur there lived a bunch of people who assembled children's toys at the rate of 144 toys for Rs 20. Calculation yields that assembling one toy fetches them a little more than 13 paise and a little less than 14 paise. But alas, as much as I would have wished I was talking about some distant past when calculations were still in paise, I am not.
The way in which some vice-chancellors are removed has the appearance of arbitrariness. Certainly, there is a need for laying down a procedure broadly on the lines of that provided for removal of holders of constitutional functionaries such as judges of high courts and members of Public Service Commissions.
XI Jinping and Joe Biden arrived in Bali for this week’s G20 summit buoyed by recent domestic successes. Their three hours of bilateral discussions on Monday may not have yielded any substantial results, but the extended and apparently amicable face-to-face encounter may help to decelerate rising Sino-US tensions.
The efforts of the Government of India to develop the country’s waterways to transport goods and people are showing signs of coming to fruition. The announcement last week that the world’s longest luxury river cruise from Varanasi to Assam via Bangladesh will start in January 2023 is an example.
