Small rivers have been getting depleted and sometimes simply vanishing in many parts of the country. This has aggravated the problem of floods as well as droughts, as people are denied access to their water in drought years and during floods, rain water which would have flowed into these rivers instead turns towards human habitations.
The aftermath of the 2024 US Presidential election has presented an unusual picture of a sitting president. President Joe Biden, with his party facing a decisive electoral defeat, has chosen a restrained public posture.
The rising costs of higher education in India have become a significant barrier for many students, threatening to undermine the country’s aspirations for inclusive growth and development.
On 20 November 2024, Japan hosted a gathering of senior enlisted members from the Five Eyes intelligence partnership in Tokyo.
Of late Vladimir Putin has shifted Russia’s nuclear doctrine to a more directly and openly retaliatory posture in response to any attack by Ukraine or any NATO country using longer-range US missiles.
For political parties, the election is in their DNA, and without participating in the polls, they lose their relevance and in time their existence.
The use of such currency by China in some specific cities and the recent budget outline of India have given further importance to it.
In December 1991, three presidents, Boris Yeltsin of Russia, Stanislav Shushkevich of Belarus and Leonid Kravchuk of Ukraine met secretly at Belavezha in Belarus. That meeting rang the death knell of the Soviet Union.
The American elite are as nepotistic as their South Asian counterparts; at least as far as getting a head start in college education goes, thanks to the practice of legacy admissions in the country’s top universities.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said in its World Economic Outlook that the “global outlook is expected to decline this year to 3.6 per cent, down from 6.1 per cent in 2021”.
