Amid reports that Israel has offered the Palestinian militant group Hamas a two-month ceasefire in return for the release of all Israeli hostages, 24 Israeli soldiers were killed during operations in the southern and central Gaza Strip, perhaps the heaviest single-day toll of a war now over three months old. Hamas is yet to respond […]Read More
In a little over three months from now, William Lai will formally take over as president of Taiwan from incumbent President Tsai ing-Wen. It will be a heady moment for the man who once declared that Taiwan does not need to declare independence as it is already independent, of mainland China! That could be a […]Read More
The waters around the Horn of Africa are notorious for piracy and for many years a coalition of nations have stationed their naval vessels there to provide security for cargo ships, now something else is brewing in these waters which could trigger a war between two countries Somalia and its breakaway western half called Somaliland. […]Read More
The Houthis have carried out 23 attacks since Dec 19 on ships they claimed were enroute to Israel. It is their way of demonstrating support for Gaza’s Palestinians. In the process, they disrupted the flow of commerce through the Red Sea forcing merchant vessels to take the longer and more costly route around Africa. Watch […]Read More
A poignant moment as the Paris-based children of jailed Iranian women’s activist Narges Mohammadi received the Nobel Prize for Peace earlier this week in Oslo. Watch the full video to know why she is still in prison under the Islamic rule of Iran.Read More
Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro has ordered his army to mobilise on the border with Guyana, with the aim, it seems, of taking over the Essequiba region of Guyana, an area of 160,000 sq. km with rich oil deposits on the Atlantic coast. Watch the full episode to know why President Maduro is interested in Essequibo.Read More
Beginning today, delegates from 200 countries will gather in Dubai for 13 days to take stock of climate change achievements and progress on limiting global temperature rise to below 2 degrees celsius. Some big proposals include ending private financing for coal power plants, which India may find unacceptable, and a complete phase-out of all fossil […]Read More
There’s a lot more going on in Taiwan than the media’s obsessive focus on its tensions with China, with more than seven lakh foreign workers Taiwan is now preparing to welcome skilled Indian workers for its semiconductor and medical sectors initially and perhaps more going forward. Taiwan is experiencing critical gaps in its workforce since […]Read More
Two weeks since Pakistan began expelling undocumented Afghans living in the country, over two lakh have crossed over into Afghanistan many with little other than the clothes on their backs, the daily numbers rose to 15,000 when border crossings in Balochistan province opened earlier this week. Pakistan claims those being expelled are the undocumented Afghans […]Read More
NEW DELHI: As political temperatures heat up in Bangladesh ahead of elections expected in January, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina finds herself under attack from the US, which has accused her of undermining the democratic election process and imposed visa restrictions on key members of the ruling Awami League and others. Is Bangladesh a test case […]Read More
As the Israel-Hamas war crosses 27 days with over 8,000 lives lost in Gaza alone, it’s clear that the two sides are not evenly matched. The Israel Defence Force has mobilised 300,000 reserves while banking on a $23 billion defense budget and more coming in every day from the US. It also has the best […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Last week, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully tested the crew escape system for Gaganyaan, India’s ambitious manned space mission. What is the project and what will it mean for India’s space ambitions? Here’s an explainer.Read More
NEW DELHI: What has been achieved in the past 10 years demonstrates that Belt and Road cooperation is on the right side of history. It represents the advancing of our times, and it is the right path forward. We need to remain clear-eyed and undisturbed in a volatile world At the third Belt and Road […]Read More
The Israeli death toll has crossed 1,200, including more than 120 soldiers; a heavy price for such a small country. The worst is feared for Israeli hostages taken away by Hamas into the rabbit warren of streets that make up the Gaza Strip. Could this have been avoided? The Netanyahu government had been warned by […]Read More
When Qazi Faez Isa was appointed chief justice of Pakistan’s Supreme Court last month, the respected Dawn newspaper carried a detailed article on his professional and personal background headlined, Pakistan’s Judicial Maverick. A maverick is by definition an unorthodox or independent minded person and in the less than distinguished annals of the judiciary in that […]Read More
It’s not difficult to figure out why the Maldives is strategically important to India – it lies a little over 700 km from the shores of Kerala and whatever happens there impacts India. A government in the Maldives that is openly anti-India and pro-China could open a pandora’s box. This is what concerns India about […]Read More
NEW DELHI: With television cameras rolling to record this moment for posterity, Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing Wen cut the ribbon on the country’s first indigenously built submarine leaving no one in any doubt that the Island now has a powerful counter to China’s constant naval intimidation and threats of invasion. According to the DefenseNews portal, […]Read More
The French ambassador to the West African Republic of Niger flew out of the capital Niamey on Wednesday, the first sign that Paris may be getting ready to acknowledge that its century-old colonial presence is changing in ways perhaps never anticipated. France’s 1,500 troops are expected to leave in the coming months. Macron announced, “We […]Read More
NEW DELHI: An estimated 400 Armenians have fled the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh for Armenia, fearing ethnic cleansing by Azerbaijani troops who seized control of the territory last week, more are expected to follow as the Azeris consolidate their control over a territory they have always claimed as their own. The irony is Nagorno-Karabakh, claimed also […]Read More
NEW DELHI: What does North Korea’s mercurial leader Kim Jong Un want? His six-day visit to Russia’s eastern region and an audience with President Putin was by all accounts a success, going by Russian media reports. But it’s still not clear if Kim has agreed to sell ammunition to Russia in violation of sanctions. Sanctions […]Read More
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