US intelligence report has recently concluded that the Afghan regime would fall within six months. Districts often fall without a fight, as Afghan security personnel negotiate surrender deals with the Taliban who now control most of the rural and far flung areas. However, the situation is different in big cities where Taliban have been unable […]
Govt spending – the good, the bad Since the government’s revenue and resource endowments remain unable to meet the country’s expenditures – which have risen by 15% to Rs 8.49 trillion in the financial year (FY) 2021-22 – it is attempting to fulfill the tidy outlay target of 4.8pc growth through (over) spending on public […]
“If you said to an ordinary person, ‘We’re in a pandemic. Let’s figure out everyone who can make vaccines and give them everything they need to get online as fast as possible,’ it would be a no-brainer”. — James Love, Director of Knowledge Ecology International. Public health experts and advocates of ‘open science’ assembled under […]
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