Over the last few years, the Capital's more urbanised & populated pockets have been recording warmer days by at least 2-3 degrees Celsius, compared to greener & spacious residential areas.
Temperatures are soaring not only during the day but refusing to fall at night. Humidity, shrinking green spaces and urbanisation worsen the heat trap in Indian cities.
The Italian term sprezzatura—a studied nonchalance that conceals intention—best captures the spirit of Trump’s foreign policy so far. The pattern is unpredictability, transactionalism, and disruption as diplomacy.
With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.
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