On 15 August 2021, the Taliban seized the capital of Afghanistan, and soon after this, it has brought almost all of it under its control. The siege began two weeks before the deadline set by the United States to retreat its troops following...
A senior Turkish lawmaker described India and Turkey as 'natural allies', who have a historical relationship which has grown over the years. Their bilateral relationships have strengthened over the years as the number of official exchanges ...
Once viewed primarily through the lens of regional Pacific politics, Fiji has emerged as a strategically significant actor in the evolving Indo-Pacific order. Located at the intersection of critical maritime and air routes across the South ...
After Honduras broke away from Taiwan, it established diplomatic relations with China. Taiwan is now regarded as an isolated and only 13 nations recognize it. . The foreign ministers of Honduras and China signed a joint communique following...
Beijing Winter Olympics was held between 4 to 20th February 2022. Olympics have always been political. It is a platform that attracts one of the largest crowd and media attention from various nations. Hence, it allows concerned voices to be...
There hasn't remained a region untouched by the ongoing US-China rivalry. One region that has emerged as the main theatres of Sino-US rivalry is the region of southeast Asia, with the relentless rise of China and its adventurism in the Sout...
The shipping industry has always been central to human civilization. It is a well-known fact now, that the maritime trade network was in operation between the ‘Harappan’ and ‘Mesopotamian’ civilization nearly around 3000 BCE. Shipping has b...
Throughout the last decade since Maldives became a multi-party democracy, several changes occurred in the country for greater political integration. During the early years the new constitution gave more powers to the judiciary and legislatu...
Maldives will take a decisive turn along the path of democracy when the potentially important South Asian nation elects over 950 councilors in the forthcoming local council elections. In the ten years since the Decentralization Act was pass...
Even when Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was forced to announce a state of emergency on April 7 to contain the spread of novel coronavirus from assuming the proportion of threat never seen in Japan’s history, Barak Kushner, Professor of East Asi...
As the deadly Corona virus(COVID 19) sweeps the world with breathtaking rapidity, and nations devising strategies suitable and appropriate to them to combat the disease, and death tolls keep on mounting by the day, questions are being asked...
Kritika Karmakar analyses the reasons for increase in Islamic state sympathisers in Indonesia, and why few major religious organisations are subscribing to the concept of Islamic caliphate. Islamic State sympathisers have been on the rise, ...
