NEW DELHI: Overseas Indian missions have undergone a cultural shift, they are getting more service-oriented to the Indian community, says Venktesh Shukla, General Partner, MontaVista Capital. Sharing his diaspora experience on COVID-19 from the United States, Shukla told StratNews Global Editor-in-Chief Nitin A. Gokhale that people of Indian origin are playing an oversize role during […]Read More
NEW DELHI: As part of the second phase of Vande Bharat repatriation mission, five flights are scheduled to carry back Indians stranded in the Philippines from May 19. While four flights are scheduled from Manila to Visakhapatnam, Kochi, Bengaluru and Jaipur, one flies from Cebu to Ahmedabad. In all, 7000 Indians have registered with the […]Read More
NEW DELHI: As the 73rd session of the World Health Assembly got underway at the first ever virtual session, 116 countries including 54 members of the African bloc backed an EU-Australian resolution for a probe into the pandemic. Those numbers were much smaller last evening when India joined, 62 in all. Clearly, there is a […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Taiwan as a member of the comity of nations has every right to be in the World Health Assembly, says Wang Ting-Yu, Member of Parliament and a member of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party. In an exclusive chat from Taipei with StratNews Global, Wang said Taiwan needed international help in combating the Chinese […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Not many people may know this: By May 14th, India had supplied nearly 3 million hydroxylchloroquine (HCQ) tablets (2.94 mn to be exact) to a staggering 24 countries! There’s more on the way, to 43 other countries. And India would have supplied 100 million of these tablets when the exercise is over. Of […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The shock resignation of World Trade Organization (WTO) chief Roberto Azevedo has added to the uncertainty surrounding the organization which was already under great pressure. In an interview with StratNews Global’s Opinion Editor Ashwin Ahmad, Professor Biswajit Dhar at JNU’s Centre for Economic Studies and Planning gives his thoughts on the ramifications of […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Five months into the pandemic, on May 8, the UN Security Council failed to vote on a resolution on COVID-19 because of the geo-political blame game between the U.S. and China. On May 18-19 the World Health Assembly, the WHO’s decision making body may also fall prey to global politics over Taiwan. In […]Read More
>NEW DELHI: The Coronavirus could have been contained in the very beginning in Wuhan where it originated but China didn’t let the world know in December when the outbreak began, says Anders Corr, publisher of the Journal of Political Risk. Speaking to StratNews Global Editor-in-Chief Nitin A. Gokhale, Corr, who’s principal of Corr Analytics that […]Read More
NEW DELHI: As countries the world over struggle to battle the Coronavirus, the President of Armenia, a small Asian nation that has a population of 3.5 million, has what he calls a “strange” take on the current scheme of things. “Where we are now is not because of the pandemic. The pandemic is not the […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Sweden’s strategy to save the elderly from the coronavirus has been unsuccessful. With that frank admission, Sweden’s Foreign Minister Ann Linde tells StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi that the government is increasing funding by about $ 220 million to care for the elderly. Fifty percent of those above 70 years old, […]Read More
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