NEW DELHI: Seattle is the first city in the United States to ban discrimination based on caste. The Seattle City Council approved an ordinance that amends the city’s municipal code to include caste as a protected class, alongside categories such as race, religion, and gender identity. A survey on caste discrimination conducted by Equality Labs […]Read More

NEW DELHI: The Kuril Islands are a chain of volcanic islands stretching across 1150 Km (715 miles) from the northeast of Japan’s Hokkaido to the southern tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia. Japan claims sovereignty over the four southernmost islands— Iturup, Kunashir, Shikotan, and Habomai Islands— which it refers to as the Northern Territories. However, […]Read More

NEW DELHI: As Sri Lanka desperately awaits a bailout package from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), China is unwilling to follow the debt sustainability targets set by the IMF. China is Sri Lanka’s biggest bilateral creditor—accounting for about 20 per cent of the island nation’s foreign debt—and hence plays a key role in its debt […]Read More

The Aegean Sea, an arm of the Mediterranean Sea, is an 83,000-square-mile stretch between Europe and Asia. It lies between Greece and Turkey and has been a point of contention between the two countries. Strategically the position of the Aegean islands is very important as they are in close proximity to Turkey but are controlled […]Read More

NEW DELHI: The South China Sea is the epicenter of the dispute between China and its neighbouring countries like Taiwan, Vietnam, The Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei, and Indonesia. This 1.4 million square miles long stretch has disputed islands such as Paracel, the Spratly, the Pratas, Scarborough Shoal, and Macclesfield Bank. This contention in the South China […]Read More
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