NEW DELHI: The ongoing economic crisis and the persistent deficits of the United States have increasingly called into question the dollar's role as the world's anchor currency. Recent moves to internationalize China's renminbi have led to (...)
NEW DELHI: According to the United Nations' Population Division, the world's human population hit seven billion on October 31. As always happens whenever we approach such a milestone, this one has produced a spike in conferences, seminars, and (...)
NEW DELHI: It is exactly 40 years since the Pakistani military regime of Yahya Khan initiated “Operation Searchlight” in March 1971. That military expedition was but the latest in a series of pogroms carried out to intimidate the restive population (...)
NEW DELHI: For a country with 1.2 billion people, India is ruled by a surprisingly small elite, which runs everything from the government to large companies and even sports bodies. But a series of scandals, some involving billions of dollars, has (...)
