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Terrorism cost the Pakistani economy nearly $100 billion (Rs. 6.4 lakh crore) between 2004-05 and 2014-15, according to data in the Pakistan Economic...

IN 2002, when Ashtamudi lake in Kerala was brought under the Ramsar convention, it was expected that this would stop the lake’s deterioration....

With the simultaneous launch of the Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT), Housing for All and the coveted Smart Cities...

One of the most defining narratives of present-day India is nepotism. Otherwise a simple term – recall the polite <g...

Where does the right to information (RTI) begin and die? What constitutes public interest and when do privacy issues override them? These questions...

It was in the first week of January 2004 at the South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation (SAARC) summit held at Islamabad in Pakistan, that the...

Systems of revenge and vendetta are part of the native cultures among the tribes of Afghanistan, clans of Somalia, Sicily, Arab lands, Latin America...

In a major development, China, the world’s largest greenhouse gas (GHG) emitter, has submitted its Intended Nationally Determined Contributions...

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Sri Lanka president Maithripala Sirisena has dissolved the Sri Lankan parliament ten months ahead of schedule and called for general elections on...

A great economic experiment began in 1951 with the formation of the European Coal and Steel Community. It was an attempt to make war within Europe...

For a long while, it was a distant bogey, a creature whose form was indeterminate and whose characteristics were shrouded in secrecy. Subsequently, a...