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Talking about Pakistan’s economic condition, T N Ninan in his weekly column notes that with a narrow industrial base and dysfunctional politics, not to speak of a counter-productive national security agenda, Pakistan could well remain an “international migraine” as someone once described it. Read here
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“Today there is seamless capital flow. How do you ensure that investors are protected? Everybody is an investor now, small or big.”
Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud in the Adani/ Hindenburg matter
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