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Elephant KILLS MAN in BRUTAL 2-hour rampage at Hindu temple in India The man killed had been the one who had driven the animal to the temple The elephant was tranquilized and tied to a coconut tree

To my mind, this Bengal election is a litmus test of whether we have fallen below the minimum threshold of electoral integrity, whether electoral democracy has any future at all. I cannot get into numbers, but all the credible information that I have been able to gather so far points to a comfortable lead for the TMC, more than enough to make up for the SIR damage. If despite this the ECI manages to conjure a victory for BJP, this has to be the result of an electoral fraud. Such an (unlikely, despite what exit polls say) event must get the entire opposition to come together and ask if there is any point of contesting any more elections under these circumstances. — Yogendra Yadav

Mumbai is an incredible city, vibrant, energetic, and full of dreams. Its spirit and charm inspire millions every day.

Okay,,, here it comes!! 🚨⚠️ ….they are finally coming after you gold! Just a few days after modis side kixk Nilesh shah proposed that Govt should go after idle household gold .. Govt plans to offer E gold to monetise idle household Gold and boost liquidity!! Indians Beware!! Don’t let your gold fall into hands of deep state!

Go outside two block of shanghai and you will see real china (third world)

Morning jog in a small city in China you probably will never visit. Excellent running track. Clean air. Beautiful scenery. Retirees jogged, walked and fished. This is the city of Fenghua奉化, of prefecture of Ningbo in the Zhejiang province. You might want to ask: which city tier is Fenghua? To be honest, there is no tier for it. You might not know that the city tier system in China is not an official system. It is a product of a research house and media company called Yicai. The city tier only applies to the 300+ prefectures in China, which are sub-provincial level entities, usually made of city districts, counties, and county-level cities. Ningbo, which Fenghua belongs to, is a major metropolis and a prefecture-level entity, and is usually cited as a tier two or new first-tier city in China. There are over 2,000+ such county-level entities in China, and Fenghua is one of them. It is one of a few hundred county-level entities on the eastern seaboard of China, and one of the most prosperous places in the country. If someone is going to create a city tier system for all the county-level places in China, I would imagine Fenghua to rank among the upper section, probably Tier 2 to Tier 3, given its obvious economic development achievement. Fun fact: Fenghua is also the home town of Chiang Kai-shek, the KMT ruler. In 1949, before he fled to Taiwan, he paid his last visit to this place. He died in Taiwan and never came back home.

Ya Allah Rasgulla Dahi bhalla

A fundamental lesson from my posts these last two weeks on modernization, industrial policy, and development is that development economics should be about understanding why South Korea got rich but Bolivia did not. The current field has largely given up on that question. Sharply identified RCTs on small micro programs are a fine way to publish in the AER and get tenure at a fancy university, but a profession that knows everything about microfinance impact evaluations and almost nothing about industrialization has misallocated its own intellectual capital on a pretty heroic scale. Four images of Seoul: