China's Digital Yuan Comes With An Expiration Date

 It's been a long time coming, and now it's almost here.Last August we reported that China's Commerce Ministry had released fresh details of a pilot program for the country's central bank digital currency (CBDC) to be expanded to several metropolitan areas, including Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, and Yangtze River Delta region. This was the inevitable...

Listen to Mizoram

 The strife in Myanmar is impacting the Northeast, Centre needs to discuss concerns flagged by Zoramthanga.India and Myanmar share a 1,600-km long border and Mizoram alone has a 500-km long exposure to the eastern neighbour along the Chin state. India’s...

Tense Peace In Mizoram – Analysis

By Giriraj Bhattacharjee* In a letter dated March 12, 2021, the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (UMHA), asked Mizoram to take appropriate action, as per law, and maintain strict vigil at the borders to prevent a possible influx of people from Myanmar into India. The instructions...

Do You Experience Secual Regret?

Experiencing sexual regret doesn’t appear to result in less regrettable behavior in the future. New research explores why women tend to regret engaging in casual sex while men tend to regret passing up such opportunities. Sexual regret does not appear to serve an adaptive function.Experiencing sexual regret doesn’t appear to result in less regrettable behavior in the futureNew research explores...

What Lies Ahead? The Grand Solar Minimum

By Luke EastwoodWe are all aware of the environnmental crisis that humanity (and all life on Earth) faces, characterised by the term ‘climate change’. Much of the current thinking in the scientific community is promoting the idea that our planet is rapidly warming due to excess CO2 (carbon dioxide) gas produced by humans in the last few centuries, and the last 70 years in particular.While there...

Is Gold Money?

Is gold money? Many would say so, and a web search returns tens of thousands of additional affirmative responses. If you want to start a fight with a gold bug, take the opposite view.But is it so?To answer the question of whether gold is money requires a definition. This one, from Wikipedia, is typical:Money is anything that is generally accepted in payment for goods and services...

Cape Clean - India's Top Facade and Window Cleaning

The twilight of Indian democracy

 Protest and journalism are criminal acts, Parliament is irrelevant, duties supersede rights,and profanity flows from the ordinary. Participants in a protest against the Hathras gangrape being detained in Ahmedabad on October 7. | Sam Panthaky/AFP ...

Mizoram: Lest We Remember

By Shekhar GuptaThe Mizo insurgency was no picnic and the two sides matched each other in brutality. China and Pakistan continued to help the MNF.March 5, 2016 was the 50th anniversary of the Indian Air Force (IAF) strafing and bombing Mizoram, or more specifically, its capital Aizawl,...