Indian interests post-Cold War for Sri Lanka made a shift from a balance of power to more pragmatic security considerations. In the 1980s and 1990s, India was avoiding being engulfed in the Cold War power struggle which led to the negligenc...
One of the world’s most geographically separated nations, the Maldives, is becoming more important and playing an essential role in the current geopolitical developments. The Indian Ocean’s centrally placed island republic, which is made up...
Sri Lanka is in huge distress due to the ongoing economic crisis. The country is witnessing a critical balance of payments issue wherein its foreign exchange coffers are dwindling at a rapid rate. This has led to irreversible problems makin...
Last month, Shehbaz Sharif became Pakistan's 23rd Prime Minister after two months of intensive politicking and conflict. His appointment came after Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan was forced to resign following a no-confidence vote. He ...
In February, the IPCC Working Group-II released the second part of the sixth assessment report, ‘Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaption, and Vulnerability’. The key findings concerning groundwater scarcity are over-extraction of water for d...
The new border law titled “Land Border Law of People’s Republic of China” passed in late October 2021 by the standing committee of the National People’s Congress, China’s top legislative body. It has once again fired up the controversies ar...
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) recently held its 38th and 39th summit meetings from 26th October to 28th October 2021. Under the theme "We Care, We Prepare, We Prosper", Brunei Darussalam took over the ASEAN Chairmanship...
Pakistan has a promising development potential and an increasing youth population. This country has a huge pool of young people and a need for skilled and unskilled labour. Since the COVID-19 outbreak started, the Government has focused on ...
Vietnam’s economic growth declined significantly in 2020 from 7% to 2.91% due to the Covid-19 outbreak. This is better than most other countries where the growth rate was negative. The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the demand front has...
Venezuela borders Guyana to the east, Brazil to the south and Colombia to the southwest and the west, to its north lies the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. The south American nation is suffering from political instability wherein Pres...
India entered the month of June with a virtual meeting between the Foreign Ministers of the BRICS nations. Attended by the Brazilian Foreign Minister Carlos Alberto Franco, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, External Affairs Minister ...
US President Joe Biden acknowledged the fact that climate change is real in his inauguration speech on 20th January, he announced that the national and foreign policy would be climate-centric and recognized the need to fight the climate cat...
