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While there are no ironclad laws of politics, two tendencies in the United States – midterm swings against the incumbent party (the ‘midterm blues’) and the negative electoral effects of inflation and unemployment (‘political business cycles’) – come pretty close. US President Joe Biden (whose...

Bundelkhand, in Jalaun of Uttar Pradesh, a highly impoverished area at the border of UP and Madhya Pradesh, had the privilege of seeing the Prime Minister of India as the inaugurator of the 296 km long Bundelkhand Expressway last week. PM Modi, in his speech...

Having been kept busy by the government in various matters, I have not had the chance to catch up with the news much in the last couple of weeks. This is why I was taken aback — shocked is actually the right word — to...

Taking its cue from the Centre’s order on premature retirement, the Finance Department of the Delhi government has ordered all department heads to conduct periodical reviews of account cadre officers, especially those nearing retirement and who have been found to be performing below par. Sources...

For much of nearly two decades, the four Rajapaksa brothers and their sons have run Sri Lanka like a family business – and a disorderly one, at that. With their grand construction projects and spendthrift ways, they saddled Sri Lanka with unsustainable debts, driving the...

In 1972, the United Nations held its first-ever environmental summit in Stockholm. In the run-up to the event, a group of scientists wrote The Limits to Growth, a report for the Club of Rome that became an unlikely bestseller. The authors argued that Earth’s finite...

Without Uber, would many taxi services have developed their own ride-hailing apps or started accepting credit cards when they did? In static industries with little competition, it takes new competitors and technologies to drive change. And, if managed well, this change need not even threaten...

The UN has released a report which states that India’s population will exceed that of China by 2023. According to the report, India’s population stands at 1.412 billion in 2022 compared to China’s 1.426 billion. India is projected to surpass China as the world’s most...

The developments in Sri Lanka should act as an eye opener for all democracies across the world. After the French Revolution, the Industrial Revolution and a chain of freedom struggles by natives against foreign rulers, human intellect devised democracy as the supreme method of governance....

The average Gross Domestic Product per person of the world is US dollars 12,200 per year. This is about Rs 9.6 lakh per year or Rs 80 thousand per person per month. Meaning that if we take the entire world’s GDP, all goods and services...