Starting July 1, Delhi residents’ cars could be turned away at the fuel pump, not for unpaid dues, but for driving a car deemed “too old.”
India’s industrial growth, long considered a key gauge of the country’s economic vitality, has begun to show signs of a worrying deceleration.
A searing heat-wave has descended upon Europe with a vengeance ~ and well before its usual time. Wildfires in Turkey have forced over 50,000 people to flee their homes, while France, Spain, Italy, Germany, and even the typically temperate Netherlands are under weather warnings.
The Arabic word “Ummah” could be translated as “nation”, though it broadly represents a grouping of people who are united by Islamic faith, values, and purpose.
Five years have passed since the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 was unveiled, a document that intends to reshape India’s education system over a 15-20 year horizon.
The best example of unethical practices of the corporate world was the 2007-2008 meltdown leading to the world’s worst economic crisis - the greatest depression in history. Starting with NYSE, the stock exchanges tumbled all over the world - London, Paris, Berlin, Rome, Tokyo, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Sydney, Toronto et al. An estimated $10 trillion was lost in market capitalisation
China’s growing presence in the international arenas of strategic interest to the US has induced the latter to ramp up its defence alliance with the nations that share historical animosity with the former. Positioning Taiwan, the South China Sea, the Indian Ocean, and the “semiconductor” at the centre of the war strategy, the Biden administration is spreading its wing towards the eastern frontier to contain China
No separation exists between personal family life and the life portrayed on the internet. Everything is up for grabs from play dates to romantic dates on these videos, to more private moments that you probably wouldn’t want strangers viewing.
Inequality and concentration of wealth with a handful of people is perhaps the most important cause for popular resentment against the business community. If an enterprise is making huge profits there is something wrong going on. Either the cost of raw material and national resources is being suppressed in connivance with the representatives of the people, fair compensation is being denied to employees and intermediaries, the end consumer is being overcharged, or to top it all the accounts are being fudged
The Musharraf era seems a lifetime ago, although those who are not part of Pakistan’s youth bulge remember it well and have strong opinions about it
