Punjab has sought a bailout package. Analysts say Punjab not entirely wrong in blaming Centre, but state must also put its own house in order, rationalise subsidies & spend judiciously.
Wickremesinghe has held talks with foreign envoys and discussed ways to replenish food, fertilizer & medicine supplies. Sri Lanka needs $4 billion over next 8 months to pay for essential imports.
Researchers from UC Berkeley, MIT, Chicago Booth and France conducted a field experiment in Odisha to find that workers carry their mental burdens to work.
The Indian govt & the RBI launched many schemes to ensure availability of credit during Covid, but financial institutions are still cautious about new lending.
The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.
Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.
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