Kathmandu and New Delhi are currently having to dispute over a centuries-old disputed land. This started at a time when India is already involved in a border dispute with another neighbour - China at the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Ladakh. Hopefully, the Indo-Nepal relationship is ye...
On April 19, 1989, the lives of five New York teenage boys changed forever. On that night, a young female jogger was brutally raped in Central Park. These five teenagers were accused of the crime by investigators. They were at the wrong place at the wrong time. In 2019, Netflix made a true cri...
Previous pandemics declared by World Health Organisation (WHO) since the 20th Century (info graphic)Pandemics of the 21st centurySwine flu (2009-2010)The pandemic was caused by an H1N1 virus strain. In March 2009, the virus was found to be transmitted among people fast. This resulted in respir...
Vietnam has improved its growth rate from 2.8% in 1986 to 7.1% in 2019. Its policy, ‘doi moi’ (to make a change) was introduced in 1986. This policy aimed to open its economy and encourage free trade. There was a dramatic increase in foreign investment into Vietnam. As per a 2019 World Ban...
The Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019 makes some modification to the Citizenship Amendment Act, 1955. In doing so, it seems to have created unprecedented levels of misgivings in the country. The unfolding events demonstrate that even in a mature democracy like India, small issues can trigger an explos...
The Eastern Union region is being conceptualised as the future alliance of Indo-Pacific nations that will bring integrity to the region. The Indo-Pacific region is strategically significant as 60% of the global maritime trade is done through this region. The idea of the Eastern Union is to create th...
Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China in India, His Excellency Sun Weidong speaking at the Chinese New Year Reception organised by the Chinese Consulate General in Kolkata. ...
The geo-political tension triggered by the killing of Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps’ (IRGC) top military leader Qasem Soleimani and the subsequent retaliatory missile attacks on American military bases in Iraq by Iran has brought many countries including India to the edge. Thoug...
India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe are scheduled to come together for the Indo-Japan annual meet in Guwahati in December 2019. The meeting has been arranged in the side-lines of Abe visiting Manipur to pay tribute to the Japanese soldiers killed there during W...
