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Friday, May 22, 2026
TopicSofia Firdous

Topic: Sofia Firdous

Real estate dynamo to Odisha’s 1st Muslim MLA, Congress’s Sofia Firdous is making even rivals take note

A civil engineer with an IIM degree, 33-year-old entered poll fray last year when SC dashed her father's hope to recontest in Odisha. The rest, as the saying goes, is history.

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Aggressive outreach isn’t enough to get Norway to invest in India. Its rules are different

The Norwegian sovereign wealth fund operates through one of the world’s most closely scrutinised ethical investment frameworks.

RBI may revisit 2013 crisis playbook as rupee slides to record low

With the rupee nearing 97 against the dollar, the RBI is weighing rate hikes and dollar-raising measures to stem investor panic and capital outflows.

After Naxalism, Shah sets agenda for BSF to weed out infiltrators—don’t just stop, identify & deport

Amit Shah urged BSF to move beyond border prevention and identify, track and deport illegal infiltrators as part of a wider national strategy against demographic change.

Pakistan is tactically brilliant, strategically disastrous. It’s primed for repeated blunders

Pakistan has ended up losing every war against India but that hasn’t prevented it from claiming victory. We will go over the evidence to anticipate what to expect next.