Pakistan’s solvency has come at stake. The Camel has come under the mountain. On March 28, the Asian Development Bank report said that Pakistan’s debt-to-GDP was the highest in the region at 86 percent in 2019, which further increased to 88 percent in 2020. An ADB Institute report titled “COVID-19 and Economic Recovery Potential in […]
The Australia-India Economic Cooperation and Trade Agreement was signed (April 2 , 2022) in a virtual ceremony by Trade Minister of Australia Dan Tehan and India’s Minister of Commerce & Industry, Piyush Goyal. Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison and India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi witnessed the virtual ceremony. Australian PM later said that the agreement […]
In February 2021, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman allocated ₹37.69 billion (US$500 million) for the census in the 2021 Union budget of India. It has been delayed to 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic in India with preliminary results expected in 2023–24. The recent population of India in the year of 2012 is 1.22 billion or 1,220,200,000 if viewed in numerical terms. India is […]
Somalia has come on the brink of famine and experiencing its worst drought in a decade. At least 4.5 million people are in need of urgent humanitarian aid in the country. Livestock are dying and the price of essential goods like food and water is spiking. The number of people who have been internally displaced […]
It is about three weeks since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine begun on February 24. The war has caused huge loss of life including innocent civilians and destruction of infrastructure. The impact of war has badly affected the Ukrainian economy, but economic sanctions imposed on the invading Russia by the US and other Western countries are […]
Voting right gives people the right to express their democratic aspirations. If caste with independence, awareness, wisdom and rationality, the voting rights to the citizens is the guarantee that the republic and democracy could never go into the hands of irresponsible and incapable political parties and leaders. Universal suffrage in India The Indian constitution grants […]
Kerala High Court asked (March 17) organisations associated with the film industry to take steps to constitute a joint committee to deal with cases of sexual harassment of women, in line with the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act of 2013. This is a timely intervention as more and more Indian women […]
Rest of India is mourning the loss of alternative space, while the supporters of the BJP, the winning party, are reveling in joy taking the results of assembly election in five states as a good omen for 2024 Lok Sabha election. The loss of alternative space is not sudden and from last few elections, people […]
The BJP won 255 of the 403 seats in Uttar Pradesh, with the Samajwadi Party, its main challenger, a distant second with 111 seats, election results show. The BJP’s consecutive win in Uttar Pradesh is a record – no party has won two elections in a row in nearly 40 years. Arvind Kejriwal’s AAP […]