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India as a responsible nuclear weapon state has reiterated its position of no first use of nuclear weapons and said it is committed as per its nuclear doctrine to maintain credible minimum deterrence with the posture of no-first-use and non-use against non-nuclear-weapon states, Foreign Secretary Harsh Shiringla said on Monday.  Addressing a high-level segment conference on Disarmament under the Presidency of Brazil, Shringla said, India is committed to the goal of universal, non-discriminatory...

India committed to goal of non-discriminatory, verifiable nuclear disarmament — Harsh Shringla Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla was speaking at the High-Level Segment of the Conference on Disarmament being held under the presidency of Brazil. PTI 22 February, 2021 8:19 pm IST Text Size: A+ New Delhi: India, as a responsible nuclear weapon state, is committed to maintaining credible minimum deterrence with the posture of no-first use and non-use a...

India Committed to Nuclear Doctrine of No-First Use: Foreign Secretary Shringla Shringla also said India is also committed to the goal of universal, non-discriminatory and verifiable nuclear disarmament. Foreign secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla. Photo: Twitter/BAPS_PubAffairs Security22/Feb/2021 New Delhi: India, as a responsible nuclear weapon state, is committed to maintaining credible minimum deterrence with the posture of no-first use and non-use against non-nuclear weapon states, Foreign S...

India, as a responsible nuclear weapon state, is committed to maintaining credible minimum deterrence with the posture of no-first use and non-use against non-nuclear weapon states, Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla said on Monday.

U.S. Cross-border Tax Reform and the Cautionary Tale of GILTI Daniel Bunn Key Findings The U.S. joined many other developed nations in adopting territorial provisions and anti-base erosion rules as part of the 2017 tax reform. One major piece of that reform, that is not typical in other territorial systems, is a new definition of currently taxable foreign earnings, Global Intangible Low Tax Income (GILTI), which is taxed at an effective rate of 13.125 percent, with the rate set to increase afte...

Date Time Social influencers can boost attention paid to brands yet erode sentiment toward video, research finds The social media world is awash with people hawking products, services and, of course, themselves. But how much influence do the “influencer marketers” really have? It’s a question for which there aren’t many solid answers. The detailed data is conspicuous in its absence for a sector that’s gone viral: The influencer marketing industry has reached a global valuation of arou...

The Public Affairs Research Institute launched its working paper titled Exploring Institutional Coordination of the Return to Schools with a webinar discussion on Thursday, 11 February. The speakers at the discussion were education activists Dr Faranaaz Veriava from SECTION27, Professor Martin Gustafsson from the University of Stellenbosch, Xolisa Guzula from the University of Cape Town and South African Democratic Teachers’ Union General Secretary, Mugwena Maluleke. The paper states that �...

The European Commission (“EC”) has published a Working Paper on dealing with distributors that also act as agents for certain products for the same supplier. The Working Paper is an...

"Despite some countries making concrete efforts to reach pre-schoolers and their families, pre-primary education was largely absent from initial education responses to the pandemic. In countries where remote learning is available, the challenges associated with it...are even more pronounced in pre-primary education."

Did the Chinese Invent Money? In the Introduction to this book, first published in English in 2010, I wrote: “The idea of sound money was present from the very beginning of modern monetary theory in the works of the sixteenth-century Spanish Scholastics. . . .”  Recent research has shown that the seeds of the theory of sound money were already present in Chinese writings centuries before the Scholastics.[1] China was one of the first countries to develop a metallic money that was valued an...