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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "The Bhutan vote"
- Certain - having no doubt or knowing exactly that something is true, or known to be true, correct, exact, or effective
- Significant - important or noticeable
- Repercussion - the effect that an action, event, or decision has on something, especially a bad effect
- Verdict - judgment or opinion given after considering the facts of a situation
- Ousting - to force someone to leave a position of power, job, place, or competition
- Incumbent - officially having the named position
- Fray - a fight or argument, especially one in which several people take part
- Neophyte - someone who has recently become involved in an activity and is still learning about it
- On the other hand - in a way that is different from the first thing you mentioned
- Threw up - to produce something new or unexpected
- Glaring - used to say that something bad is very obvious
- Queue up - to wait for something in a queue
- Favour - prefer or chose
- Ultimately - after a process or activity has ended
- Postal ballot - a vote that you send through the post, usually because you will be away on the day of an election
- Swung - to change from one emotion, condition, idea etc to another, or to make someone or something change in this way
- Outcome - the final result of a process, meeting, activity etc
- Disquieting - making you feel very worried or nervous
- Polarise - to form two very different groups, opinions, or situations that are completely opposite to each other, or to cause this to happen
- Prosperous - rich and successful
- Constituency - a division of a country that elects a representative to a parliament
- Denote - to be a feature that shows you what something is
- Discontent - the unhappy feeling that you have when you are not satisfied with something
- Quotient - a particular degree or amount of something
- Regardless of - without being affected or influenced by anything else that happens or exists
- Monarch - a king, or a queen
- Retain - to keep or continue to have something
- Considerable - large in size, amount, or degree
- Predecessor - the person who had a job or official position before someone else
- Consistently - in the same way and without changing in behaviour, attitudes, or qualities
- Bilateral - involving two groups or countries
- Subsidy - an amount of money that the government or another organization pays to help to reduce the cost of a product or service
- Campaign - to try to achieve political or social change by persuading other people or the government to do something
- Sovereignty - the right to rule a country
- Self-sufficiency - ability to provide everything that you need by yourself, without help from other people
- Impact - an effect, or an influence
- Plateau - a large flat area of land that is higher than the land around it
- Formal - following the correct or suitable official methods
- Mainstay - the person or thing that something depends on most in order to continue or be successful
- Consolidate - to make the power, position, or achievements you already have stronger or more effective so that they are likely to continue
- In the saddle - to have control of something
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Not just liquidity: on NBFCs crisis"
- Liquidity - a situation in which a business has money or property that it can sell in order to pay money that it owes
- Crisis - an urgent, difficult, or dangerous situation
- Address - to give attention to or deal with a matter or problem
- Crisis - an urgent, difficult, or dangerous situation
- Infrastructure - the set of systems within a place or organization that affect how well it operates, for example the telephone and transport systems in a country
- Obligation - something that you must do for legal or moral reasons
- Regulator - a person or organization whose job is to be certain that companies, systems etc act fairly and follow rules
- Pile - a number of things put on top of each other
- Obvious - clear to almost anyone
- Underlying - underlying causes, facts, ideas etc are the real or basic ones, although they are not obvious or directly stated
- Non-Banking Financial Company (NBFC) - financial institutions that offer various banking services, but do not have a banking license
- Sustain - to provide the conditions in which something can happen or exist
- Shaky - likely to fail or be unsuccessful
- Domestic - relating to the country being talked about, and not other countries
- Investor - a person who puts money into something in order to make a profit or get an advantage
- Come under something - if you come under something, you suddenly experience or suffer it
- Roll over - to agree that an amount of money that someone owes can be paid back at a later date
- Severe - a severe problem is very serious and worrying
- Crunch - a difficult situation that forces you to make a decision or do something
- Aftermath - the effects and results of something bad or important
- Saga - a long series of events, or a description of them
- Amidst - if something happens amidst particular feelings or events, it happens while people have these feelings or while these events are happening
- Rapidly - happening, moving, or acting quickly
- Precipitous - happening more quickly than expected
- Defining moment - the point at which a situation is clearly seen to start to change
- Fuel - to make something increase or become worse, especially something unpleasant
- Demise - the time when something stops existing
- Bogged down - to be/become so involved in something difficult or complicated that you cannot do anything else
- Non-performing loan - a nonperforming loan is a sum of borrowed money upon which the debtor has not made the scheduled payments for a period of usually at least 90 days for commercial banking loans and 180 days for consumer loans
- Meanwhile - at the same time
- Warrant - to make an action seem reasonable or necessary
- Fraught with - full of problems, difficulties, or things that are confusing
- Urge - to advise someone very strongly about what action or attitude they should take
- Equity - a fair and reasonable way of behaving towards people, so that everyone is treated in the same way
- Apart from - except for someone or something
- Liquidity - a situation in which a business has money or property that it can sell in order to pay money that it owes
- In the midst of something - while something else is happening
- Ongoing - still happening or being done
- Prolonged - continuing for a long time
- Unsustainable - not capable of continuing at the same rate or level
- Eventually - at the end of a process or period of time in which many things happen
- Bailout - money that someone gives or lends to a person or organization with financial problems
- Hazard - something that could be dangerous or could cause damage or accidents
- Tap into - to choose someone for a task, especially membership of an organization or committee
- Crises - plural of crisis (an urgent, difficult, or dangerous situation)
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