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Green energy has become a pricey delusion
Oped, Bjorn Lomborg, Published on 13/05/2025
» Ask families in Germany and the UK what happens when more and more supposedly cheap solar and wind power is added to the national power mix, and they can tell you by looking at their utility bills: it gets far more expensive. This goes against everything that we're being told. Green energy is supposed to be incredibly cheap. But we're not hearing the real story.
As Trump returns, Sino-Indian ties are changing
Oped, Debasish Roy Chowdhury, Published on 24/01/2025
» Weeks before his return to the White House, US President-elect Donald Trump issued a pointed warning to the Brics countries. "Go find another sucker," he wrote on his social media platform, Truth Social, threatening the group's nine members with 100% tariffs should they attempt to challenge the dollar's global dominance.
Leader seeks power boost from parliament poll
News, Anusha Ondaatjie & Dan Strumpf, Published on 16/11/2024
» Sri Lanka began counting votes in a parliamentary election that will decide whether the nation's outsider leftist president will be able to fulfill his ambitious pledges to combat corruption and rewrite an unpopular International Monetary Fund loan programme.
The sameness of the Modi 3.0 govt is a mirage
News, Andy Mukherjee, Published on 15/06/2024
» The new cabinet of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is much the same as his old. The ministers for finance, defence, home, and foreign affairs have been retained, giving the impression of policy continuity.
India's exit polls may be more noise than signal
News, Andy Mukherjee, Published on 04/06/2024
» Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set for a landslide victory in India's general election. Or so claims nearly every exit poll released since the end of voting on Saturday evening. Yet, these surveys have proved spectacularly wrong in the past, and they must be read even more cautiously this time around because of the Modi government's outsize sway on the television stations that commission them.
India's oligarchs under Modi facing a crisis
Oped, Jayati Ghosh, Published on 21/02/2023
» Over the past two decades, Indian multi-billionaire Gautam Adani's close ties to Prime Minister Narendra Modi have helped the Gujarati businessman become Asia's wealthiest person. Mr Adani's meteoric rise also made him the poster boy for India's growth story -- until allegations of fraud and stock manipulation brought his eponymous business empire to its knees. With his conglomerate losing US$110 billion in market value within days, Mr Adani has become a cautionary tale about the perils of cronyism in Mr Modi's India.
Unmasking India's crony capitalist oligarchy
Oped, Pranab Bardhan, Published on 17/02/2023
» The recent accounting fraud and stock manipulation allegations against multi-billionaire Gautam Adani made by Hindenburg Research, a New York-based short-selling firm, has startled the financial world. The episode is a necessary reality check for those who are expecting India's star to burn brighter in the global economic firmament as China's dims.
The US inflation bonanza for sovereign debtors
Oped, Gautam Nair and Federico Sturzenegger, Published on 08/10/2022
» As developing countries confront a new era of elevated inflation, rising interest rates, a stronger dollar, and capital outflows, some governments stand to benefit from a little-noticed bonanza. During the "Great Moderation" that preceded the Covid-19 pandemic, years of low inflation led to the growth of sovereign debt issued at fixed interest rates and long maturities. Now, two years of unexpected inflation in the United States have effectively diluted this debt.
Message on the 8th Constitution Day & National Day of Nepal
Published on 19/09/2022
» Nepal celebrates the 8th Constitution Day and National Day today. On this happy occasion, I would like to extend greetings and felicitations to all fellow citizens living in Thailand and the accredited countries namely Cambodia, Laos, Singapore and Vietnam.
Nepal, Thailand and Buddhism
News, Ganesh Prasad Dhakal, Published on 16/05/2022
» According to the lunar calendar, Sunday, May 15, was a full moon day, which coincides with the birthday, enlightenment day and passing away of Gautam Buddha. Therefore, it is the most important day for followers of Buddhism all over the world.