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Pakistan Army chief Asim Munir meets Chinese President Xi Jinping during SCO follow-up talks

Guwahati, Sept. 2 -- Pakistan Army chief Field Marshal Asim Munir formally met Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday as part of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif's delegation, following the recent Shang... Read More


Cracks appear in Gujarat ceramic industry as tariffs hurt

India, Sept. 2 -- Khimjibhai Kundaria, the chairman of Gujarat-based Wintel Digital Vitrified Tiles and Wintel Surfaces, has only one aim these days - reworking his export strategy. His operations in ... Read More


Stitched up by tariffs, Indian apparel sector finds partial relief in US-origin input exemption

New Delhi, Sept. 2 -- New Delhi: The Indian government's decision to allow duty-free cotton imports, mainly from the United States, is expected to provide some relief to the country's apparel exporter... Read More


Russian drone and missile attack on southern Ukraine kills 1 and wounds dozens

New Delhi, Sept. 2 -- Russia launched a large aerial attack on southern Ukraine, officials said Saturday, two days after a rare airstrike on central Kyiv killed 23 and damaged European Union diplomati... Read More


Solow Paradox: The productivity puzzle of AI can be cracked

New Delhi, Sept. 2 -- In 1987, having monitored the computer usage boom for over a decade, Nobel Laureate Robert Solow commented, "You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity stati... Read More


Inflation targeting: What works can still be tweaked to do better

New Delhi, Sept. 2 -- Inflation targeting has served India well over the past nine years. Among several pieces of supporting evidence are two that I usually prefer. One, Indian inflation was much high... Read More


'Servants of the Sahibs': The West, Us(Kashmiris) and our Cultural Schizophrenia

Srinagar, Sept. 2 -- Almost all the guests were wearing Western outfits, garishly ill-suited and poorly carried, at least to my eyes. But two interactions stood out. The first was with a middle-aged ... Read More


'Left office at 5, reached home at 11': Gurgaon executive shares ordeal as heavy rain brings chaos

India, Sept. 2 -- Heavy rainfall in Gurgaon on Monday turned the city into a traffic nightmare, leaving thousands of commuters stranded for hours. What should have been a routine evening for office-go... Read More


AfDB and Adesina, the optimist-in-chief,ByReuben Abati

Nigeria, Sept. 2 -- On Sunday, 31 August, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, Nigeria's former minister of Agriculture and Rural Development (2011 - 2015), completed his maximum ten-year tenure (five years each per... Read More


Rising stray dog menace in J.P. Nagar: A call for action

India, Sept. 2 -- Sir, In recent years, residents of J.P. Nagar in Mysuru have been grappling with a growing and uncontrolled rise in the population of stray dogs. What once may have seemed like a mi... Read More