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In the article, the author discusses the benefits of paper or analogue technology as compared to digital technology. Also cited are how paper showed the limitations of digitalisation, the survey on the value of paper in decision making, the study on how paper can improve productivity by comparing the behaviours of users of paper calendars and digital calendars, and how paper appeals more to customers than digital products.

The article informs on a study published in the journal "Nature" by Michael Park and Russell Funk of the University of Minnesota, and Erin Leahey of the University of Arizona on decline in research papers and patents and its impact on science and technology in general. It mentions that citing older work, citing one's own work, and citing less diverse work all correlate with less disruption, along with the quality of published work.

The article reports on the stock market performance of India. It mentions that country's Nifty so and Sensex indices reached record highs at the end of November, and as to many fund managers desperate for diversification, India looks the most promising alternative. It also mentions that the central bank has been forced to raise interest rates in defence of the rupee impacting its domestic monetary policy.

The article focuses on the effect of the rising newsprint costs on paper mills in 2021. Among the challenges encountered by the newsprint industry and paper mills are the reduction in pagination and decline in demand for newsprint. Some mills opted to diversify by converting printing machines to make packaging for electronic commerce. It cites the significance of a possible increase in the number of papers that will shut down in 2022 to market equilibrium.

The article talks about plans and policies of Indian government to prevent the spread of Covid-19 virus' second wave. It mentions that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has warned against lockdowns and called instead for testing, isolating the infected and tracing their contacts; and government has also given special licence for work to continue on a project to overhaul the grand government buildings of the city centre.

The article discusses research on how to turn randomness introduced by machinations into a fingerprint that is unique to any given sheet of paper. It references a study by Ehsan Toreini et al., published in the journal "Transactions on Privacy and Security." The study developed a technique that involves shining a light through a piece of paper from the back. The researchers hoped that the technique could help in reducing cases of fraud.

The article discusses the function of folds, from child's play to spacecraft, by way of mathematics and mechanical engineering. Topics discussed include highlights of the International Meeting on Origami in Science, Mathematics and Education, Friedrich Froebel, the first person to suggest the systematic use of folding as a way of teaching geometry and Robert Lang, a former laser physicist greatest hits have been in formalising and building enthusiasm for the mathematics behind origami.

The article discusses the discovery of Chileans on the payment of over the odds for toilet paper due to a cartel linking the dominant suppliers, CMPC, a Chilean multinational paper and pulp firm, and a smaller rival, in October 2015. The revelation has caused a stir in the country that involves CMPC's chairman Eliodoro Matte, the country's third-richest man. The role of the new breed of regulators in the capitalism in Latin America is also tackled.

The article focuses on Ben Mol, professor of obstetrics at Monash University, who came across study of uterine fibroids and infertility published by Egypt researchers. Topics discussed include concerns over steroid injections given to women undergoing Cesarean section for delivery of babies, fake papers supporting treatment backed by other works, and research on drugs intended for preventing pre-term labour.

The article explores how Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated the digitization of government with adoption of online government services for everything from welfare to weddings with respect to the lockdown and preventive measure of social distancing. Topics include National Health Service remains among the world's biggest purchasers of fax machines; and plan to create a unified digital system of patients' records was abandoned almost a decade ago.

The article focuses on international law under which everyone is entitled to nationality and mentions people of Zimbabwe at risk of stateless according to refugee agency of United Nations (UN). Topics discussed include citizenship law passed in 1984 that made harder for people citizenship, need for Zimbabwean hospitals to record new births and enrollment of children without papers in school.

The article reports on the shortage of toilet paper in Taiwan due the plan of producers to increase prices by as much as 30 percent in March 2018.

The article informs that drawing is a form of therapy for survivors of atrocities and a tool of justice. It mentions that the Sudanese government of President Omar al-Bashir has claimed that its forces had carried out only a limited counter-insurgency operation; and villagers are non-Arab, African groups (often Masalit), while their assailants come from the Nilotic Arab peoples and it was ethnic cleansing and, as the International Criminal Court (icc) was to rule.

The article discusses the failures of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's presidency. Topics covered include the money-laundering scandal involving the president's son, Flávio Bolsonaro, a rapid rise in the pace of deforestation of the Amazon, and the lack of progress in his fight against crime and corruption. Also mentioned is Bolsonaro's bystander role in the constitutional reform of the pension system.

The article offers information on the rescuing newspaper business industry. It further discusses revenue from digital advertising has failed to offset the profit draining out of print; platforms such as Google and Facebook have become the new moguls of the media landscape; and the underlying economics of the global newspaper industry; and real failure is that papers have lost control of distribution to Google and Facebook, making it harder to monetise the traffic.

A letter to the editor is presented in response to the article "The lesson of the Panama papers" in the April 9, 2016 issue.

The article informs on the marketing stratigies adopted by cigarette paper company, Rizla. It mentions that as smokers are trading down to rollyour- own cigarettes during the COVID-19 pandemic, sales growth in the longer term is expected to weaken. It also mentions that Rizla faces challenges ahead, notably the rise of upstarts that use less subtle social-media campaigns to build a new kind of cult following, especially among pot-smokers.

The article reports that France and Germany are pushing rival models for defence co-operation, but neither is very ambitious. Topics disccussed include acronyms made such as Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO), European Defence Fund (EDF) and a European Intervention Initiative (E21) as Europeans scramble to reduce their military dependence on the U.S. and the gap between the rhetoric of political leaders and the modesty of these defence drives.

The article focuses on impact of covid-19 pandemic on children's education and mentions that several countries pressed ahead with exams. Topics discussed include high-stakes tests retained by several school systems, inflation of grades in American high schools and how exams that have helped pupils back into classrooms after lockdowns.

The article focuses on three research paper published online by Lee Berger, a palaeoanthropologist at the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa, and his team, related to ancient hominin. The papers showed that Homo naled, a small brained species of hominin that lived at a similar time to early humans.

The article offers information on the corruption allegations against government officials of Malta in the leaked documents of Panama Papers incident including Michelle Muscat, the wife of Malta's prime minister Joseph Muscat. Topics discussed include the claims made by Daphne Caruana Galizia, an anti-government blogger, Leyla Aliyeva, the daughter of the president of Azerbaijan, and the impact of this on Malta's reputation in the European Union.

The article reports on how researchers Helen Pluckrose, James Lindsay and Peter Boghossian have successfully published fake scientific research papers to expose problems in poor academic publishing.

The article offers information associated with growing popularity of sustainability-linked debt. It is noted that a mid-size Canadian consultancy WSP has amended the terms of a loan of 1.2bn dollar whose interest rate hinges on hitting three targets to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions from its operations, increase revenues from green sources and increase participation of women in management. It is stated that sustainability-linked bonds are also in increase.

The article reports on the struggle of African countries to build identity systems. The struggle has been attributed to the inability of governments to determine who their citizens are as about one billion people lack official proof of their identities. Some suggestions for creating identity systems are provided, including linking birth registration to benefits such as child-support grants.

The article discusses the dispute between German Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Christian Social Union (CSU) over the status of asylum-seekers who are registered to stay in other European Union (EU) countries but travelled to Germany. Topics discussed include the CSU's frustration over Merkel's leadership style and demand that secondary migrants be checked and turned back at German borders and Merkel's agreement to tighten Europe's external frontiers.

The article offers information on various options to assess the scientific research work for its publications including the use of alternative metrics, almetrics developed by company Almetric.com., and software developed by company Meta.

The article discusses reporting by the group Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) on purported links between offshore funds linked to Russian cellist Sergei Roldugin uncovered in the Panama papers document leak and alleged thefts uncovered by lawyer Sergei Magnitsky.

The article discusses the responses to the release of the Panama papers, which contained information on political leaders' tax havens, arguing that tax information of politicians should remain private. An overview of the policy of transparency for tax information of Scandinavian politicians is provided.

The article discusses the crackdown on undocumented immigrants in India in 2019. The government has identified millions of people they consider foreigners who have no right to live in the country. Home minister Amit Shah announced plans to deport undocumented immigrants to Bangladesh. The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has promised to act on the influx of undocumented immigrants.

The article focuses on the white-paper protests that erupted in China a year ago, primarily driven by public dissatisfaction with the government's strict COVID-19 measures. Topics include the effective nature of the protests, the government's subsequent change in its zero-covid policy, and the ongoing repression of protesters through arrests and surveillance technology.

The article reports on the growing demand for forest products worldwide as of May 2021 as consumers favor them over steel, concrete and plastic. Also cited are the increase in prices of wood products, the 68% increase in global exports of said products including sawn wood, pulp and paper, and the changes in the industry like the consolidation of paper production.

The article focuses on a report by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) on the leaked data on the tax of clients of Mossack Fonseca, a law company in Panama. It says that the leak has unveiled the offshore holdings of the firm's clients including politicians, and showed how the money was moved and hidden. It mentions the impact of political corruption on the society and economy.

The article discusses the role that private sector businesses play in economic development in China, comparing it with the impact of state capitalism on China's economic conditions. An overview of Chinese industrial state-owned enterprises (SOEs), including their contribution to China's gross domestic product (GDP), is provided.

The article discusses the Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi's reforms, including his firing of a cabinet secretary and the Shia religious leader Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani's support for the reforms. An overview of the impact that al-Abadi's reforms have on the country's politicians, including in regard to his efforts to prevent political corruption, is provided.

The article focuses on research which found that the share of economics papers in leading journals focused on pure theory fell from 1983 to 2011. Topics discussed the include number of National Bureau of Economic Research papers released in 2017 that featured the use of administrative data in the U.S., a study which found that white men in America earned significantly more than black men and benefits of sharing tax records with researchers.

The article comments on the move by the government of India to spend too much on defense but wasted much of it. India's armed forces have become among the world's top five after importing more firearms, ships and airplanes. The armed forces are criticized for failing to reform, restructure or revise doctrine. The effort of the defense ministry to address questions about procurement and promotions is also discussed.

The article looks at data found by researchers that are challenging the claim that inequality is rising across rich countries. Topics covered include paper written by Thomas Piketty on the inequality crisis, factors contributing to the weakness of economic growth in the rich world, errors in existing inequality estimates and how they could be corrected according to research by Gerald Auten and David Splinter and variation in estimates of the long-term growth of middle incomes.

The article discusses the threat to scientific cooperation between the U.S. and China, with U.S. and Chinese scientists writing fewer joint papers, and a decline in the number of Chinese students and researchers entering the U.S. While concerns about technology transfer and intellectual property theft exist, ending or watering down the Science and Technology Agreement (STA) would be a mistake.

A correction to an article on university rankings which asserted that books and non-English-language research papers were not counted.

The article reports that the Gulf countries are transitioning away from fossil fuels, which brings the risk of social instability if autocratic governments fail to adapt. Topics include governments cut benefits and citizens compete for private sector jobs creating a sense of both freedom and insecurity with education as a key; and relationship between the state and individuals with rights being recognized on paper with political repression and centralization in economies off hydrocarbons.

The article focuses on planning of government of Japan to propose successor to Kuroda Haruhiko as Bank of Japan's head. Topics discussed include planning of central banks to tighten monetary policy since 2007, cap defended by the Bank of Japan by bonds of the gross domestic product (GDP) of Japan, and paper losses caused by rise in bond yields.

The article discusses the difficulties faced by African nationals for acquiring visas, while also mentioning that the Ugandan government has stated that passports will henceforth be rationed as the government is currently facing a shortage.