Budget Gamble
In a bold and strategic move, the latest UK budget signals a significant shift in economic policy, opting for increased taxes, higher borrowing, and ambitious spending.
In a bold and strategic move, the latest UK budget signals a significant shift in economic policy, opting for increased taxes, higher borrowing, and ambitious spending.
The death of eight elephants in Bandhavgarh National Park, Madhya Pradesh, likely due to consuming fungus-infected kodo millet, underscores a profound and growing challenge in India’s conservation landscape.
The oxymoron “a painful pleasure” seems to be in effect when Kolkata gets global recognition ~ the city has ranked 19th by Savills’ Growth Hub Index for its rapid development.
The Bahá’i Faith, is a religion founded on the principles of unity, justice and peace. All over the world, followers would be celebrating the Twin Birthdays of their Founders, this year on the weekend of 2-3 November soon after another great festival, Deepavali.
The recent warning by Prime Minister Narendra Modi about the rise of “digital arrest” scams signals a new, concerning trend in the landscape of online fraud in India.
The suffering masses took to the streets with a single slogan, never before articulated against any head of state of this country. And in this desperation, the slogans arising from hunger, weariness, and helpless resentment were blind to all the differences between the communities, their collective frustration bringing them together as no lavishly foreign funded NGOs and INGOs could achieve for the last 10 years after the war.
In 1996, the USA interfered in the Russian elections so that its favored politician Boris Yeltsin could be elected as the President. Yeltsin implemented pro-big business and pro West economic policies that impoverished the common Russian people. This emboldened US policy makers to go back on the assurances regarding Nato expansion eastward.
According to David DesRoches, a professor at the National Defense University in Washington, the deliberate killing of civilians is a war crime. “Placement of booby-traps and placement of mines are clear violations of the law of warfare, as well as deliberate targeting of civilians.”
It is the Indian understanding, however, that the longer the conflict rages in Ukraine, not only does the humanitarian argument for Russia to back off intensify but neutrality too becomes more difficult to articulate robustly.
The only possible way out of this quagmire is for Sri Lanka to restore macroeconomic stability and debt sustainability, while protecting vulnerable groups through well-targeted social safety nets. It will have to phase out the central banks direct financing of budget deficits, besides ensuring a gradual return to a market-determined exchange rate to rebuild international reserves
