What are India’s options in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan? First, note some differences in this Taliban version, not just the widely discussed effort to court acceptance and return of older leaders but also in money and the.
Taliban has encountered its first policy challenge on the heels of a hostile takeover of Afghanistan. Reports indicate that the Joe Biden administration has frozen the foreign currency assets and gold of the Afghan central.
With results from trials on two vaccines for children expected soon and approvals likely by September, GoI has its task cut out. It should begin the vaccination drive simultaneously, instead of waiting till next year.
By Deepak Ranade Consciousness is an ambiguous term. It can mean awareness, the state of being awake, cognition and processing of data, perceiving and being interactive with the environment. David Chalmers uses Thomas Nagel’s definition of consciousness: The feeling.
As India’s first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru wanted his country to cultivate a ‘scientific temper’, a term which not a few present-day netas – who assert that cow urine can cure Covid-19 and that bovines.