The Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, made a significant statement on a very ambitious initiative during the G20 meeting held on Saturday. This effort not only poses a challenge to China's Belt and Road effort (BRI), but also has the ...
The conflict in Sudan is rather a more interesting and complex one compared to its other African neighbours in the same or similar situation.
In 2023, the Government of Djibouti assigned Touchroad International Holdings Group and Hong Kong Aerospace Technology Group Limited (HKATG), a telecommunications company, to establish an orbital spaceport in Obock, a small port town in Dji...
Religious riots have exposed serious faultlines in the society.This article looks into different facets of the social fabric of French society.
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization's rotating chairmanship was handed over to India last year in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. India will be presiding over the SCO grouping till September 2023. From being an observer state in 2005 to full membe...
The global fertiliser prices hit all-time highs in the spring of 2022 following Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February. The Russia-Ukraine conflict exacerbated an already precarious global supply scenario that began in 2020 with COVID-19-...
The year 2021 marked two decades since the term "BRICS" was first used by former Goldman Sachs economist Jim O'Neill in the early 2000s to refer to the four rapidly developing nations that appeared most likely to start catching up to the We...
In 2005, Ayman al-Zawahiri as the second in command of al-Qaeda wrote a letter to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi stating that “We are in a battle, and more than half of this battle is taking place in the battlefield of the media” [1]. Earlier, terror...
The Belt and Road initiative, formerly known as “One Belt, One Road”, is also known as the New Silk Road project. it has over 100 participant nations and is a development plan that intends to connect China to Europe.
At the 2021 year-end Plenary Meeting, the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un expressed his desire to improve people's lives by focusing over nukes. The speech came against the backdrop of severe economic crises and food shortages faced by Nort...
The G-20 summit meeting last week between the leaders of the twenty most important economies of the world has reignited the talks of international cooperation between like-minded countries and groups. With no dearth of multilateral organisa...
Al-Qaida and ISIS elements are increasingly active and competitive and have both expanded their reach deep into the African continent. the emergence of ISIS in the African region, which was informally recognized by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in O...
