Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s offer of talks to India represents the first peace overture since he came to power last year |
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| Their players either had to quit jobs or take a pay cut and students in the side had to take a break from studies for Chile to ensure they didn’t miss out on making their Cup debut |
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| Despite the disruptions forced by the pandemic, the economy is in good shape. The budget may focus on improving the conditions for private investment, but will have to look at how to reduce the high-debt burden |
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| The loss of their educational rights is a new normal. It can only be reversed if countries involved in the geopolitical churning and evolving new Great Game in Afghanistan revisit and reassess their policies vis-a-vis the Taliban |
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| Data tells us that most housing in urban India is built in some degree of tension with the law. One study, by private consultancy FSG, uses census data to estimate that 33%-47% of housing in urban India is what they term informal. That’s one in every two or three houses |
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| India’s population presents a chance for growth, but inequality and elderly care need attention |
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| The last two years have also demonstrated room for world-beating achievements when the executive push, public-private partnership and Indian ingenuity come together |
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| Mumbai In his definitive book on the city, Suketu Mehta observes: “Bombay is a city humming, throbbing with sexual energy, a city of migrant men without women; a city in heat |
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| India’s big cat numbers are rising. But one in every three lives outside reserves, leading to human-animal conflicts. Give a thought to not just tigers outside protected areas, but also to many species fighting to survive in an altered world |
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| Providing adequate incentives to the bank mitras, to help improve the utilisation of services among women, should be considered |
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| This extract from a new book on the life and legacy of Swami Vivekananda focuses on the World’s Parliament of Religions in Chicago in 1893, which transformed him into an international spiritual celebrity |
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| Thanks to China and Russia, both Japan and Germany have changed their strategic, political orientation. And while it is a work in progress, the historical significance of this move is hard to miss |
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