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Sultan Mehmood & Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak in this NBER paper discuss universities being seen as incubators of mass uprising:  We link high-frequency geocoded protest data during Bangladesh’s 2024 Monsoon Revolution, Facebook measures of protest activity and social connectivity, university enrollment and demographics to establish: (1) student-linked protests precede off-campus m...

A Teacher Writes to Students Series (83): Decolonizing Education Annavajhula J C Bose, PhD Former (Economics) Professor, SRCC, DU Do you know that there is the 3D Pedagogy Framework adopted in some colleges and universities in Europe and America? This is to bring about “diversified, decolonised and democratised” education. It has the goal of “going […]

A bank named Ueno Bank has failed in Paraguay and is creating headlines. The collapse of a rapidly expanding digital bank has plunged Paraguay into a financial and political crisis, leaving nearly three million customers in a country of 6.5 million unable to access their savings. The crisis has put hundreds of millions of dollars […]

On 8 Nov 2016, RBI Central Board recommended the Central Government to cease all the banknotes of Rs 500 and Rs 1000 as legal tender.   This development became the famous demonetisation episode, perhaps the moste eventful in RBI and monetary history of India. One thing which stood out in Demonetisation-2016 was the role played by […]

In 1946,  K.M. Mammen Mapillai established Madras Rubber Factory as a toy ballon manufacturing unit. The company transitioned to becoming the leading tyre manufacturer. In 2026, the company is celebrating its 80 years.