Guest post: A personal tribute to Karamat Ali (19 August 1945 – 20 June 2024) by Mandira Nayar in Delhi, forSapan News Karamat Ali was many things but forMandira Nayarhe was always the person who returned her grandfather Kuldip Nayar to Lahore, where he was born and which he considered...
Each person was ranked as per scores of the households they resided. The variable was categorized into five quintiles from Poorest to Richest. If a woman belongs to a poorest household = coded as 1, if a woman belongs to a poorer household = coded as 2, if a woman belongs to...
So Ruja Ignatova is the richest Bitcoin billionaire in the world next to Satoshi Nakomoto himself? Who also strangely enough never tries to spend any of his Bitcoins? As the blockchain is transparent, presumably we’d know if Ruja had spent any of the Bitcoins. I realise that you don’t ...
It’s not every day that you hear about the richest man in India marrying a Pakistani girl, but it just happened, and it’s causing quite the buzz in South Asia and the Middle East, where most of this businessman’s clients are located. View More Orphan Boy Up for Marriage in 2024...
Easypaisa: Fintech (financial technology) is bringing financial services to the unbanked population through non-bank institutions licensed by the State Bank of Pakistan, the top bank regulator in the country. One example of a non-bank is Telenor Pakistan, a leading mobile phone service operator, ...
The simplest definition of the middle class is a group of people in a society who are neither rich nor poor. The middle class has always been considered vital to a country's political stability and economic growth. The rich and the poor simply distrust each other too much to let the other...
Modi has cultivated close ties withIndia's oligarchswho mostly come from his Gujarat state. Gautam Adani is one of these oligarchs to whom Modi has been particularly close. Adani has received cheap land for his land development projects and lucrative power purchase contracts for the electricity his...