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 McMahon Line divides India's northeast region from China's Tibetan region. It was proposed by Henry McMahon, a colonial administrator for the British, during the Shimla Accord talks between the Chinese and British governments in 1914. T...
The world economy faced several crises in 2022 that highlighted the need for more balanced development. Although the COVID-19 outbreak was still felt globally, the conflict in Ukraine affected the food and energy markets, causing severe mal...
New Delhi held a rare strategic meeting (March 2) with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) focusing on regional security challenges in a step that might have global consequences. According to reports, the dialogue occurred in earl...
The United States National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan, had invited his Indian counterpart, Ajit Doval, to the White House to "start the next milestone" in the US-India strategic technology and defence collaboration. Doval was in Washin...
On July 27, 2022, a large group of Iraqi protestors led by the Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr attacked the Council of Representatives of Iraq building in Baghdad's Green Zone. The storming often referred to as the "Ashura Revolution" or the ...
The year of 2022 marked India and Japan’s 50 years of friendship and cooperation in a variety of domains. Initially, the relations between India and Japan consisted of cultural and economic relations and off late, the two countries are focu...
The rapid emergence and growth of hydrogen has highlighted the unique opportunity that the world must make hydrogen an integral part of the energy future. In the 21st century, hydrogen is expected to become a vital component of the industri...
Oil, which accounts for approximately 3% of global GDP, is regarded as one of the most important commodities in the world, as it powers everything from everyday items such as crayons, credit cards, paints, and pens to high-end items such as...
On December 7, Chinese President Xi Jinping visited the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for a three-day visit after clinching a third term as general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, chairman of the Central Military Commission, and effecti...
New Delhi hosted a two-day special meeting of the United Nations Security Council’s Counte-Terrorism Committee (CTC) on the the 28-29 October 2022. The theme of the meeting was ‘Countering the use of new and emerging technologies for terror...
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...
