The Quad refrain over the last few years on resilient supply chains is driven by the singular realisation that China is the biggest producer of 12 of the world’s 18 critical minerals (there are a total of 35 critical minerals including lithium, cobalt and uranium). What’s more, as the UK government has noted, “The world […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Apart from the missile strike itself, there’s nothing straight forward in the killing of Al Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in Kabul over the weekend. Here are some of the questions that come up. Like Osama bin Laden who the Americans claimed was “found” hiding in Abbotabad, Pakistan, and killed in a US special forces […]Read More
NEW DELHI: More than a decade after its construction began, INS Vikrant, the first Made in India aircraft carrier, has been handed over to the Navy. It places India in a select club of countries that have the expertise to design and build such ships. Here’s a primer on the multi-thousand-crore asset.Read More
The race to be the next man or woman in No. 10 is drawing to a close as the final two candidates – Foreign Secretary Liz Truss and former Chancellor Rishi Sunak – come to the end of their campaigns to woo the Tory electorate. Over the next few days, registered members of the Conservative […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The 14th BRICS summit opens in virtual format on Thursday and will continue till Friday with President Putin, China’s Xi Jinping, India’s Narendra Modi and other leaders attending. China is the host and ideally the leaders should have attended in person, but with Delhi and Beijing at odds ever since the Ladakh clashes, […]Read More
President Biden wants to meet with Congress regarding gun legislation Measure comes after 21 children were killed in a school in Uvalde, Texas Guns are seen as a constitutional right in the US Gun reform is opposed by the US gun lobby group called the National Rifle Association (NRA), one of the most powerful lobby […]Read More
US President Joe Biden has authorised the deployment of 500 ground troops to Somalia The order reverses President Trump’s order to withdraw 700 ground forces from Somalia It revives an American counter-terrorism operation in the Horn of Africa The troops will focus on decimating the Islamic militant group Al-Shabab which the US designated a terrorist […]Read More
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un slams his country’s response to its first officially confirmed COVID-19 outbreak as “immature.” Pyongyang reported six more deaths after the country admitted to a COVID outbreak last week. North Korea currently has 1.72 million patients with fever symptoms, including 62 deaths as of Tuesday evening. Health officials have developed […]Read More
NEW DELHI: It may sound like science fiction but it’s real. That’s how Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett described his country’s new laser-based air defence system—Iron Beam. It’s quite cheap compared to the Iron Dome system that Israel already uses but will supplement, not replace, existing air defence systems. Here’s a primer on what Israel calls […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The island nation of Sri Lanka is currently going through an unprecedented economic crisis—shortage of essential items, high prices of food and fuel, depleted foreign reserves and high external debt. There have been public protests, leading to a political crisis of sorts. All ministers have quit to make way for a new Cabinet […]Read More
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