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T K Arun What has macroeconomic management got to do with old filmy villain Ajit’s penchant for drowning his enemies in liquid oxygen, so that the liquid would not let them live, even as the oxygen would not let them…
Devender Singh “Let us recognise our demographic dividend. Our nation is young. The world needs skilled manpower.” – Prime Minister Narendra Modi, June 11, 2014. “It is critical to prepare the ‘demographic dividend’ of the country as per the demands…
Harsh V. Pant Japan’s longest-serving Prime Minister Shinzo Abe died on 8 July 2022, hours after he was shot at a rally while campaigning for elections to Japan’s upper house. Abe was instrumental in shaping and strengthening India–Japan ties, and…
Harsh V. Pant & Shashank Mattoo Japan before Shinzo Abe seemed like a country adrift. Its economy, hamstrung by years of low growth and an aging population, was feared to be in terminal decline. China’s meteoric rise threatened its security…
Srikanth Kondapalli China’s official response to the assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as “shocking” and “unexpected incident” is at variance with the scorn being poured out on its rabid Communist Party-backed nationalist social networking sites. In some…
TK Arun The Eknath Shinde government in Maharashtra is alive and kicking. So are the governments of Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka, both birthed out of the feeble bodies of previous governments that had been blown up. Clearly, the anti-defection law…
Tikender Singh Panwar Ecological disasters such as Floods in Silchar, Assam; landslides in Manipur and more floods in the offing as the monsoon advances in the country; such would be the visible stories published in the media for at least two more…