Topic: regional power
To expand India’s strategic autonomy, we need to get back to high growth economy fast
India needs to integrate with the global economy. But first, it must become the engine of growth for the entire sub-continent.
Political violence increases when regional party candidate wins election: Study
Researchers from Netherlands and Canada looked at data from 1989 until 2012 to find no increase in violence in constituencies where the assembly seat is reserved for ST populations.
Reports of India’s demise as a regional power are greatly exaggerated
There is a tendency to exaggerate China’s footprint in India’s immediate neighbourhood.
On Camera
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India’s blasphemy beheadings have a new audience—and they’re sitting behind smartphones
Videos on social media have become a key feature of blasphemy killings. Each inspires communal competitors to stage a more macabre act of revenge.
RBI intervenes with multi-pronged strategy in battle against rupee fall
The Reserve Bank’s challenges include crashes in forward dollar premiums to rising open interest in futures that adds to pressure on the currency.
Defence
India and Egypt work towards building strategic relationship with focus on defence & security
From holding joint military exercises to exporting wheat as Russia and Ukraine stop supplies, New Delhi and Cairo are redrawing their relationship as geopolitical tensions rise.
Moral, political & ideological questions on Maharashtra: 1st is simplest to answer, 3rd trickiest
What is Shiv Sena’s ideology? We might say it’s been a convenient mix of extreme ethnic chauvinism & unforgiving Hindutva. Within the second, the party retained space to manoeuvre.