Sunday Post - Page 17

With countries increasingly transitioning to trade in local currencies, driven by their disenchantment with the dominant US dollar, a new world order...

The eighteenth COP (COP18) was held from November 26 to December 8, 2012 in Doha. The eighth session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the...

Your childhood is your homeland’, said Epictetus, and so did the poet and Nobel laureate Louise Glück, “We look at the world once, in childhood. The...

UNCTAD, in its latest report titled ‘A World of Debt: A Growing Burden to Global Prosperity’, highlights the alarming surge in global public debt,...

Data is the new currency — a tool that is enabling information exchange, facilitating transactions at record speeds and flowing across borders,...

Jarnail Singh had several stitches on his head and yet scored a goal in the 1962 Asian Games final — it’s an age-old popular story which has gone to...

Feeling deeply hurt and angry after discovering your ex’s infidelity is completely understandable. Betrayal can shake your sense of trust and security...

The COP17 kicked off on November 28, 2011, in Durban and continued till December 11, 2011. The seventh meeting of the Conference of Parties serving as...

Manoj Mitta’s 596-page magnum opus Caste Pride: Battles for Equality in Hindu India on the hitherto under-explored intersection of caste and law...

With the end of the long election process, the leader of the largest coalition, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), is expected to form the new...

B K Nehru was the Indian Ambassador to the US from 1960 to 1968. In one of his Memoires, he shared an episode on Smt Indira Gandhi depicting her...

As the COP16 in Cancun revived climate negotiations post the Copenhagen fiasco, barely any major agreements were made, with longstanding issues like...