Context With the COVID-19 pandemic and growing trade tensions between China and the United States, Japan has mooted the Supply Chain Resilience Initiative (SCRI). What is Supply Chain Resilience? approach that helps a country to ensure that…
Context Maldives and Sri Lanka were today verified for having eliminated rubella, making them the first two countries in WHO South-East Asia Region to achieve measles and rubella elimination ahead…
Context On July 16, 1945, the world’s first super bomb — loaded with about 13 pounds of plutonium at its core — exploded in a desert in New Mexico, destroying…
Context Turkey’s highest court convened to decide whether Istanbul’s iconic Hagia Sophia museum can be turned into a mosque. Back to Basics About the Hagia Sophia The 1,500-year-old structure, listed as…
Context Recently Poland’s justice minister, said that Poland would begin preparing the formal process to withdraw from the Istanbul convention. Back to Basics About Istanbul Convention The Council of Europe Convention on preventing…
Context Kuwait’s National Assembly committee has recently approved a draft expat quota bill in seeking to reduce the number of foreign workers from Kuwait. The Prime Minister has proposed to…
Context Recently, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is keen to have an open sky agreement with India. Bilateral agreement There are about 1,068 flights a week between India and the…
Context For approximately four decades, territorial disputes and ethnic conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan in Central Asia have impacted the Nagorno-Karabakh region in the South Caucasus. Back to basics Conflict…
Context Recently, India and the USA have participated in a virtual ministerial meeting of the S.-India Strategic Energy Partnership (SEP) to review progress, highlight major accomplishments, and prioritize new areas for cooperation. Key Takeaways…
Context Recently, the United Nations’ Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) has held a high-level dialogue on the subject ‘Multilateralism after Covid-19: What kind of UN do we need at the 75th Anniversary?’ The UN…
