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Can Saudi package offset Pakistan's financial reliance on China?
"Despite claims and lapse of three crucial weeks, China has neither come forward with any help nor has the country rolled over its deposit/debt of almost $3 billion, despite its assurances and repayment," the News said. China and Pakistan not only have strong bilateral ties but consider themselves natural allies and call themselves "iron brothers."
Manmohan Singh's blanket support for west-driven globalization may need a reality check
He believes that the Ukraine conflict is re-shaping the world order. The governing order was built around free societies, frictionless borders and open economies, he argues. Up to a point this may be true, but how many societies were really free, beginning with China with its central position in the global economy next only to the US. Here we had one free society with extraordinarily deep linkages with what is being reviled today as an autocracy.
France rejects far-right
In 2017, 39-year-old Macron shot to power as an outsider, with a 32-point lead over Le Pen, by promising to modernise what he called a arthritic, over-regulated country. In the past five years, he streamlined French labour laws, scrapped the wealth tax. But he was forced to drop an increase in fuel tax, when the plan sparked the so-called "yellow vest" movement.
Market waiting for global cues to decide trend
In the process the chart formation was that of an engulfing candle where both the previous days highs and lows were crossed and market closed lower. The week closed with small net change which does not convey the market movement. BSESENSEX lost 136.26 points or 0.24 per cent to close at 57,060.89 points while NIFTY lost 69.40 points or 0.40 per cent to close at 17,102.55 points. The broader markets saw BSE100, BSE200 and BSE500 lost 0.44 per cent
Growing importance of intelligence
It is true that the Russia-Ukraine military conflict is now a prolonged 'war of resistance' put up by Ukrainians against the Russian army on their soil -- largely with the help of arms and ammunition supplied to them by the US-led West.
Pit Stop in D.C.
What if he had stayed and led a fight back? Like Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky? The former comedian has stayed put at grave personal danger, changed into military fatigues and rallied, or harangued, world leaders and parliaments rebuffing evacuation offers from both the US and UK. With support pouring in from around the world, he has led the country to push back a much larger and better equipped military of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Is Rajasthan next on Cong radar for leadership change after Punjab, Himachal and Haryana?
The Congress recently changed its state presidents in three states -- Punjab, which witnessed a chaotic situation during the Assembly polls as well as in Himachal and Haryana. However, the tussle between the two Congress camps in Rajasthan which witnessed tense moments during the rebellion by former Pradesh Congress Committee chief and deputy CM Sachin Pilot last year against the state leadership is yet to be settled.
Will sympathy for late Virbhadra Singh lift Congress' chances in Himachal poll?
Having run-out of leadership in Himachal Pradesh, the Congress is seeing a hope in the legacy politics ahead of the polls. It precisely aims to encash the sympathy factor in favour of former Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh. Six-time Chief Minister and a Congress stalwart indeed, Virbhadra died last year at age of 87. On Tuesday, the Congress appointed his wife Pratibha Singh, a sitting MP as new state party president, apparently unable to find a potential second line leader to lead the Congress to the poll, against the well-entrenched BJP or counter AAP's buzz in the Shimla hills.
Terror strikes by Pakistan Taliban could further dent Islamabad's economic recover
On Tuesday, three Chinese nationals were killed in a suicide bombing carried out by a female Baloch bomber identified as Shari Baloch just outside the University of Karachi's Confucius Institute -- the Chinese language teaching centre. Such terror attacks will severely affect inflow of foreign investments. Experts told India Narrative that terror attacks would further slowdown economic activities within the country.
In Sri Lanka, is the fall of the Rajapaksa Family imminent?
Similarly, the mention of Sri Lankan politics is incomplete without a discussion on the Rajapaksa family. In the last few months, Sri Lanka has occupied headlines in every South Asian country, precisely for its unprecedented economic crisis. This happened when the Rajapaksa family was completely dominating the Sri Lankan government.
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