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Djoomart Otorbaev I still have vivid memories of my first trip to Turkey in 1993. After the Soviet Union’s collapse two years previously, we Kyrgyz gained access to a world we had hitherto only imagined. We all had Turkish relatives somewhere in the West with...

The killings of 14 innocent people in Nagaland - six in the first and the rest in two other incidents in quick succession - by the armed forces 4 December have once again brought to the fore the pertinent question, whether there is any need...

Daron Acemoglu Global supply chains used to be the last thing policymakers worried about. The topic was largely the concern of academics, who studied the possible efficiency gains and potential risks associated with this aspect of globalisation. Although Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011 had...

It should be music to the BJP’s ears the way Trinamool Congress supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee denied outright the existence of the Opposition alliance – the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) – and lambasted the Congress. Pouring water on the Opposition’s efforts...

This month marks the beginning of the time two years ago when the government lost its way. The Modi government had fixed the three things it had been campaigning for strongly for decades. The law criminalising triple talaq came August 1, 2019. The Supreme Court...

As hinted earlier in this column (November 16), there is something strange about the repatriation of Union Defence Production Secretary Raj Kumar to his parent state of Gujarat. The general view is that Kumar is most likely to replace Pankaj Kumar as the state’s new...

Shang-Jin Wei When Tesla CEO Elon Musk promoted the Dogecoin and Bitcoin cryptocurrencies, their prices shot up. While some countries are taking a wait-and-see attitude toward private digital money, El Salvador has embraced Bitcoin as an official currency. And the New York State Department of...

Gordon Brown The damage caused by COVID-19 – exacerbated by the continued appearance of new variants, most recently Omicron – has been catastrophic. More than five million lives worldwide have already been lost to COVID-19, and with confirmed cases on track to swell from 260...

37-year-old Parag Agarwal is the talk of the town and the toast of the world. After Agarwal took over the reins of Twitter Inc from Co-Founder and CEO Jack Dorsey 29 November 2021, Tesla Founder Elon Musk tweeted that USA benefits greatly from Indian talent....

The name of the new threat to the world is ‘Omicron’, the coronavirus variant with deadly mutations that first manifested itself in southern Africa. It is no coincidence that African countries are among those that remain at the bottom of the vaccination coverage. And that...