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 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...
Terrorism in Indonesia has been a significant concern in recent years, with several attacks and plots being carried out by extremist groups both within the country and those affiliated with international organizations such as Al-Qaeda and t...
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 ...
Even though the Taliban insisted they understood their obligation under Islamic law to educate both boys and girls, a law was issued that forbade girls older than eight from attending school. Maulvi Kalamadin stated that the ban was only te...
Zero-COVID refers to public health policy adopted and implemented by multiple countries to counter the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. This strategy involves the use of several public health measures like mass level testing, quarantine, l...
The People's Republic of China's economic ties with Africa up to the late 1970s were motivated by ideological imperatives but the political elite in China now sees the continent's economic ties as a way to advance the nation's development o...
Elon Musk, the world’s richest person, has been making headlines for acquiring Twitter, a social networking site or microblogging site that was launched in 2006 by Jack Dorsey and that can be used to receive news, follow high-profile celebr...
Former Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe unveiled a strategic framework for a free and open Indo-Pacific in 2016 which since 2017 has been propagated as the Free and Open Indo-Pacific (FOIP) strategy. With Southeast Asia being at the heart...
As S. Jaishankar, the foreign minister of India, paid his first official visit to Russia since the commencement of the Russia-Ukraine war, analysts have begun to speculate about India's potential role as a mediator between Russia and Ukrain...
Hungary, a country in Eastern Europe, has come full circle from autocracy during the Cold War period to democracy in the post-communist world post the fall of the USSR and the end of the Cold War again back to autocracy under its current pr...
