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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...

Caught in the political crossfire between France and the UK, thousands of migrants, trying to escape poverty and persecution, are risking their lives in the perilous water of the English Channel. These migrants are mainly from Afghanistan, Iran, Eritrea and Sudan. A humanitarian crisis is...

As South Asia’s three large nations approach the 75th anniversary of their independence it is instructive to look at where they stand. The three nations are today all democracies and have been for some time, which makes this an unusual period in our history. Pakistan...

The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) is reportedly taking a hard look at the NITI Aayog, its premier think tank, and has ordered a detailed review of its performance in the six years of its existence when it was created to replace the Planning Commission. Apparently,...

Johan Rockström & Tobias Raffel What is next on the global climate agenda? This year’s United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow certainly did not fail, but nor was it much of a success. While world leaders entered into some promising new agreements on...

Chief Justice of India NV Ramana’s pronouncements November 22 on the rulers’ duty should inspire confidence among the people in the rule of law. It could also restore faith in the judiciary which has considerably been eroded during the past few years when justice was...

The virtual meeting between US President Joe Biden and the Chinese leader Xi Jinping last week may cause some concern for India as it cannot be good news if the USA gravitates towards China or vice versa. Since China has been persistently creating border tension...