1. Will they succeed? No harm trying. Does India weaken its case by aligning with the G4? Nonsense. China's argumentthat it would support India _____________ were to break ranks with Japan; and the US argument that it has no problem with India's candidature but remains conflicted on Germany over Italy and Brazil over Mexico - are all divide-and-rule _____________ and have to be exposed as such. None of the P5 countries _____________ cast-iron guarantees to India that it would get India into the UNSC if it abandons the G4. So - the argument that the G4 route weakens India's case is a _____________

2. On its part - China created the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) _____________ its geopolitical and geoeconomic interests in Eurasia. The US _____________ to created mega-regional trade groups - the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the Trans-Atlantic Trade andInvestment Partnership (TTIP) - to deal with the Chinesetrade threat. Diplomats and analysts will debate forever onthe _____________ of these and other such associations - groups - alliances and partnerships. Some succeed in their objectives - many fail. _____________ - more are getting created.

3. Goldman Sachs claimed _____________ no law. That's precisely the problem. Our societies are _____________ by legal corruption. University professors are in cahoots with pharmaceutical companies that think nothing of_____________ hundreds of thousands of dollars for life and death products that _____________ hundreds. And economists who cannot see past markets support such nonsense.

4. Violence in the Terai can only make it difficult for that process to materialise. It would be good if all _____________ realise this. There are many in the top Indian leadership who wish to see Nepal enjoy the _____________ multi-party democracy and federalism in full measure. Some of them can surely muster sufficient goodwill in Kathmandu_____________ the Nepalese leadership to set up a Commission to look into the grievances of the Madhesis and the Tharus - especially with respect to _____________ of provinces and adequate representation.

5. Consider this target: "By 2030 ensure all learners_____________ knowledge and skills _____________ promote sustainable development - including among others through education for sustainable development and sustainable lifestyles - human rights - gender equality - promotion of a culture of peace and non-violence - global citizenship - and appreciation of cultural diversity and of culture's_____________ to sustainable development". It is hard to know what is promised - _____________ how it will be implemented - monitored or evaluated.

6. The presence of information in electronic _____________ on real-time basis - and the availability of advanced natural language processors - helps one measure sentiment of any new information on a continuous basis. Whether an investor will act rationally _____________ availability of information depends on the 'effort' that the investor_____________ to put in processing such information. Vendors who provide sentiment scores on news are - in a way - reducing the mental effort _____________ process any information. They would - therefore - argue that an investor needs to spend a fraction of her limited attention span to act on available sentiment.

7. A search engine may weigh the public interest in such information _____________ the right of the person seeking its removal. But this process is _____________ transparent. Moreover - drawing attention to the content _____________ would only further highlight it - creating what is known as a'Streisand effect'. With online privacy and data protection fast becoming important areas of legislative consideration - it is only _____________ before proponents of the right to be forgotten seek its formal approval. But a nuanced conversation about this right will only get off the ground after a comprehensive right to privacy is established.

8. Access to the right infrastructure - both digital and physical - _____________ an issue for most SMEs - particularly traders and retailers. We see that large ecommerce companies now provide warehousing facilities for retailers to store and catalogue their inventory - even extending in-house logistics teams or third-party logistics support. This has also created _____________ for cataloguing startups that help sellers list their products online and manage inventory_____________ marketplaces. It's not enough to go e-tail - sellers have realised - without going digital. Today_____________ before - they all transact online. This creates a much easier and transparent digital ecosystem in which to operate.

9. Already the success of the franchise based leagues isturning sport into an aspirational _____________ for youngsters. The support of private capital assures lucrative _____________ - while the platform these leagues provide ensure players get the _____________ they deserve. Today - our sporting heroes come from sports beyond only cricket. Hand in hand with our growing success on the global sporting stage - sports persons competing in boxing - shooting - snooker - wrestling - chess - golf - and most recently - kabaddi and football are _____________ becoming household names.

10. While the NEP definitely needs _____________ the anomalies and bring in a reasonable secure ecosystem fortransactions - it _____________ clearly in tune with the existing standards and expectations that India's online ecosystem deserves and demands. In a landmark judgment in March 2015 - the Supreme Court had _____________ Section 66A ofthe IT Act on the same premise that it encroached on online freedom. The lessons of that judgment _____________to the DEITY bureaucracy and experts in the committee to see a reasonably encompassing NEP in place.

11. Efforts have been made in the past to cleanse the sector - but without success .The Appropriate Authority was set up by the tax department for pre-emptive purchase of property in cases where the value was _____________ .But the experiment flopped. There were litigations - the tax department was _____________ with high priced properties - _____________ could not be disposed of. These were_____________ to officers for residential purposes. I recall colleagues staying in palatial accommodation in Golf Links - Malabar Hill and Cuffe Parade. The funds of the Government were unnecessarily blocked. The institution had to be scrapped.

12. Take achieving _____________ access to contraception and family planning: it will mean _____________ orphans and mothers dying in childbirth. It will also generate a_____________ - with more people of productive age. In total - every dollar spent will mean $120 of benefits to society._____________ - with ending tuberculosis by 2030 (saving nearly 1.5 million lives a year - with each dollar leading to $43 worth of benefits) and completing the Doha free trade deal (lifting incomes and cutting poverty especially in developing countries - the benefits would be worth $2 - 000 more than the costs).

13. Companies are acquiring stakes in technologies unrelatedto their core business that holds _____________ the future. Google is _____________ such acquisitions - buying the satellite imaging technology firm Skybox Imaging in 2014 for $500 million to enhance its project Loon that intends to provide internet access in _____________ of the world. With the acquisition of Nest Labs for $500 million - Google showed its _____________ home monitoring. Facebook acquired the Britain-based Ascenta to provide internet access through unmanned aerial vehicles. We are yet to see such high-risk - long-term investment types of acquisitions in India.

14. While even the ILO refers only to 'labour' - the fact is thattoday's refugees and migrants are often _____________ labour. They deserve protection from social and political_____________ and economic discrimination in host nations. Be it in Europe or in China - in West Asia or North America - every modern nation must grant the 'right of entry' and human security to refugees and migrants - coming_____________ the laws of demographics and the human instinct for survival. Stringent visa systems and immigration laws are a 20th century _____________ that have no place in the 21st.

15. The Americans remain officially optimistic - even if a little impatient - at India's pace of economic reforms. But whentwo countries as _____________ as India and the US gettogether to face complex _____________the world - there will be things that don't work. The focus - say US officials - is and should be on implementation. Both Barack Obama and Modi are sensitive that past _____________ about the world's most powerful and the largest democracies walking intothe sunset together has begun sounding _____________. Whenthey last met - they agreed to focus on getting things done.

16. The core of the Chinese economic policy is to create jobs at_____________ cost - as long as basic raw material costs are covered. The banks - _____________ - are funded by the People's Bank of China - which prints currency notes to _____________that this cycle continues as it brings in the dollars - generates jobs and ensures that China can continue its breakneck speed of economic growth. The same holds for infrastructure. The banks _____________ tons of companies who build ghost cities - highways to nowhere and buildingsthat no one occupies because the investment growth remains high and no one looks at economic returns.

17. Xi is widely accepted as the most authoritarian Chinese leader since Deng Xiaoping. Some _____________ labelled him as a 21st century Mao Zedong. _____________ - this control freak ideology has limits in keeping the lid on underlying problems. The series of 'administrative interventions' ordered by Xi in the past few weeks _____________ the bearish stock market - put a floor on the renminbi's depreciation - and prevent capital flight _____________ that the strongman method of crisis-response does not compensate for fundamental economic weaknesses.

18. No matter how great you think your product is - it will always improve _____________ if you go beyond India to tap other markets and find other users who will try it. In Singapore - we learnt a lot about how healthcare is practiced in a developed country - how responsive and scalable our infrastructure _____________. We took a lot ofthese learnings and put them back into our product so thatthe next version was 10x better. What we also did was to not build a 'Singapore version' -“ we decided that if we goto a country and learn something that is better - we will_____________ our product globally _____________ that - not do isolated versions for each country.

19. Analysis of all the benefits and costs shows that focusing on the top 19 targets _____________ the Copenhagen Consensus Centre would achieve four times more than if we sprayed all the development spending around 169targets. In other words - _____________ would have the same effect as quadrupling the entire budget. Even here on the floor of the United Nations - I find that global leaders - ambassadors - and those who work in development agreethat the targets _____________ severely pruned. They just all want their targets. But _____________ of making this a game of who got the most of their targets into the final declaration - it should be all about getting the most effective targets inthere.

20. It has been argued that right to be forgotten strengthens privacy and _____________ granted when the public interesttest is satisfied. But acknowledgement of the right would indicate that search engines could adjudicate what constitutes public interest. An _____________ could be found in the sensitive data-protection rules under theInformation Technology Act. This _____________ entail that ifthe right to be forgotten is formally recognised - it should_____________ to the extent of removal of sensitive personal data - and nothing else.

21. Through the 'product envelopment' strategy - firms expand features of their platforms and offerings. The _____________ Myntra by Flipkart for about $300 million is a notable example. This has helped Flipkart _____________ its product line in fashion apparel and target brand-conscious customers. By acquiring Freecharge - Snapdeal could_____________ the mobile payment platform into its ecommerce offerings. The same holds for Flipkart recently acquiring FX Mart - which provides a prepaid wallet licence so that payment platforms _____________ into Flipkart's online stores platform.

22. This is a revolution spurred not by policy change or government grants but by private capital. The success ofthese leagues comes from the work of venture capitalists - bankers - business persons - actors - statisticians - an international technical crew and an evolving media - whotogether have all _____________ these sports with professionalism and a glossy _____________. This is not to saythat cricket is losing its lustre. Far from it. Cricket - our national obsession - remains the _____________ sport in India. The 2015 World Cup - despite being played in an 'inconvenient' time zone - delivered the best ever ratings for any event on television. But cricket is no longer the only sport occupying the national _____________ anymore.

23. Despite its fears of migrants - India has been home to_____________ Nepalis and Bangladeshis. Many moons ago - persecuted refugees such as the Parsi community and Jews_____________ India their home. Countries with totalitarian and authoritarian systems have to also find ways in whichthey can _____________ migrants. Demographic shifts - with ageing societies losing their global competitiveness - _____________ this more compelling.

24. The macro-policy stance and climate are - however - not_____________ to growth. The US Federal Reserve has_____________ the record of greater success. It achieved this with a dual mandate and not a monetarist perspective -” of which inflation targeting is a collateral product. The dual mandate underscores the sovereignty of employment -” i.e. growth -” as an independent policy objective and_____________treat inflation as a monetary _____________.

25. This heavy taxation _____________ in beer being seen as a'high-end' drink driving drinkers to hard spirits. The current policies of each and every state government are_____________ aimed at raising revenues from the alcoholic beverage sector without differentiating between categories of low and high alcoholic beverages. These policies _____________ social needs and objectives - thereby driving drinkers to opt for liquor consumption. One must appeal to the states to stop looking _____________ at beer producers to fund their coffers.