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February 04- BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,908, January 29, 2021 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Syrian president Bashar Assad, who now views the Iranian presence in his country as a burden, wants to oust Tehran from Syrian soil—and he has come to realize that…
December 11- Amitabh Kant’s diagnosis is wrong: India doesn’t have too much of a democracy. It has too little of it for economic growth. SHIVAM VIJ 9 December, 2020 The Economist Intelligence Unit releases an annual index of democracy. India’s rank in this index has…
November 13- Critic and novelist, Prof. Dr. Sanjeev Uprety, taught English literature at the Central Department of English, Tribhuvan University for more than two decades. He completed Masters degree(s) from Tribhuvan University and SUNY-Binghamton, and then later, his PhD from Brown University, Providence,…
November 8- Socialism Sucks: Two Economists Drink Their Way Through the Unfree World by Robert Lawson and Benjamin Powell is an excellent take on why socialism always fails. In fact, it’s a pretty novel take, one that I hadn’t considered before: socialist countries can’t…
October 26- उपचार नपाए कर नतिर्ने भन्ने नारा अगिल्लो हप्ता ट्विटरतिर निकै ट्रेण्डिङमा आयो । त्यसको कारण थियो नेपाल सरकारले अब कोरोनाको उपचार गर्न नसक्ने, कोरोनाबाट मृत्यु भएकाहरूको शव ठेगान नलगाउने, आफन्तले नै सबै गर्नुपर्ने भन्ने समाचार । तर यस्तो मत कुनै…
August 25- Pastor John MacArthur of Grace Community Church (GCC) has received a phone from President Donald Trump in the midst of his fight to stay open for services, with the President thanking Dr. MacArthur for taking a stand as the two…
June 30- A $500 million grant under the U.S. Millennium Challenge Corporation faces opposition within Nepal’s ruling party. Nepal, which is in the club of Least Developed Countries (LDC), aspires to become a middle-income country by 2030. To achieve that goal, it desperately needs massive…
June 8- A couple weeks ago I published a guide to cognitive biases for journalists. I saved perhaps the biggest one of all — confirmation bias — for a post all of its own. It might be one of the best-known biases, but for…
Drug manufacturers face supply-chain weaknesses and sourcing issues as they ramp up complex production processes to meet global demand. – Heidi Ledford Production of remdesivir, an antiviral drug approved to treat COVID-19, is ramping up.Credit: Ulrich Perrey/POOL/AFP/Getty The world was waiting for…
CORONAVIRUS: COVID-19 The major dividing line in effective crisis response will not place autocracies on one side and democracies on the other. Francis Fukuyama ALEXANDER DRAGO / REUTERSWhen the coronavirus pandemic now sweeping the world was localized in China in January, many people…