Afghanistan is part of the Golden Crescent which is known for its illicit drug production, it is known for the production of Opium but it is not limited to Opium, after the Taliban came to power the number of incidents of drug busts around ...
Marine pollution is a major cause of concern in today’s world. Our water bodies are polluted due to chemicals and garbage produced by anthropogenic actions. Among the concentrated toxins, plastic is the most prevalent type of marine debris ...
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...
Japan in its press statement after the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, strongly condemned the act of aggression. Along with G7, they reiterated that strong sanctions will be applied. The Russian invasion of Ukraine is a turning point in Japa...
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...
NATO and Russia are again at loggerheads concerning the Ukraine issue. Russia with its huge army is knocking at the doorsteps of Europe. The issue of who shoulders the responsibility of Europe’s defence is again at the fore. Looking critica...
The Indian Ocean is the third largest ocean on earth, covering about 20 per cent of the earth's water surface. It expands to South Asia in the north, Africa and Arabia in the west, South East Asia and Australia in the east, and Antarctica t...
In 2019, a Hollywood action-thriller movie Angel Has Fallen depicted a futuristic scene in which the US President faces a swarm of drones in the middle of a river. To protect the President against the attack, a secret service agent Mike Ban...
Philippines has been scoring sound on the economic post the pandemic. It was getting on track to become an upper middle income country, and is witnessing rapid urbanization, and broadening of the middle class group. This was coupled with a ...
The relationship between the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in short NATO and Ukraine has become the talk of the town amid the gradual military build-up by Russia near the border areas of Ukraine in the past few months. NATO follows an ...
The recent visit to Southeast Asia in December by the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, marks the first official visit to the region by a high-ranking diplomat since President Joe Biden took office early this year. His maiden tour bega...
The world today is all about a ‘network of networks’ whether through land, sea or air and most countries are looking for better ways of communication and interconnectedness. The Indo-Pacific is one such way of interconnectedness and here, t...
