NEW DELHI: On the request of the United Nations, India will send in more troops for peacekeeping in the restive region of Abyei in Africa. Ever since India first contributed to UN peacekeeping operations in 1950, it has taken part in 51 of 71 such missions. Some Indians have commanded multinational peace efforts under the […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Not a single shot has been fired on the Siachen Glacier after India took control of it through ‘Operation Meghdoot’ in 1984 by foiling Pakistani designs. Recently, responding to a question on whether the glacier can be demilitarised, Army chief General MM Naravane said India wasn’t averse to the idea but the precondition […]Read More
NEW DELHI: On Talking Point Anders Corr, Political Risk Analyst, Editor of the book, Great Powers, Grand Strategies: The New Game in the South China Sea, Andreas Fulda, Senior Fellow, University of Nottingham and author of the book The Struggle for Democracy in Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong: Sharp Power and Its Discontents and […]Read More
NEW DELHI: 7 years in jail for breaking coronavirus quarantine rules, a Ruble 500,000($1=Rub74. 1Rub=Rs 1.03) fine for business not following a lockdown. Azmat Metov takes us through a day in the life of a citizen in this chat with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P.Revi. 106 people have died in Russia with 1,667 new […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Former top UN and Norwegian diplomat and minister Erik Solheim and StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi discuss the China origin virus, COVID-19, and the lack of global leadership in one of humanity’s most testing times. Speaking from Oslo, Norway, the ex-head of the UN Environment Programme highlights how most of the world […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Nearly 45 years after Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was assassinated when he was Bangladeshi Prime Minister, one of his convicted assassins, Abdul Majed, who had been given the death penalty but was on the run, was nabbed. He was arrested in Mirpur near Dhaka, according to Bangladeshi authorities. Majed fled Bangladesh in 1996 when […]Read More
MOSCOW: The total number of confirmed cases of the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-2019) worldwide equals 1,21,564. The World Health Organization (WHO) made the decisive step on Wednesday to declare a pandemic as more countries are rethinking travel or visa restrictions over the spread of coronavirus disease. Alexander Lukashev, director of the Martsinovsky Institute of Medical Parasitology, […]Read More
NEW DELHI: They are allies or were until the other day when things began to come apart. This is with reference to Turkey and Russia who shared similar goals in Syria, and now are on opposite sides it would seem. Turkey seems to want to consolidate its position in Syria and has its troops actively […]Read More
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