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Iranian strikes on January 16 in Pakistan and into Iraq and Syria a day earlier suggest deeper links amongst groups and threats they pose to the region and beyond

Iran and Pakistan have attacked militant bases in each other's territory, but also reaffirmed their commitment to good neighbourly ties. The countries have a history of tensions and cooperation, and a common problem of Baloch insurgency, but in the context of the Middle East conflict, their actions mark a dangerous escalation.

Here is a brief account of the outfits that were targeted.

School enrollment means that schools and the system can reach out to everyone on the rolls. Whether they are coming every day, sitting in school, is another story.

Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, who won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics for their work using Randomized Controlled Trials to evaluate social policies, spoke to The Indian Express about the most important policy challenges facing India. The duo, who co-founded The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) in 2003, were speaking on the occasion of J-PAL's 20th anniversary.