“We must all summon the political will to unhesitatingly combat terrorism”: Jaishankar
Full text of the address at the UN Security Council Open Debate on Threats to International Peace and Security Caused by Terrorist Acts
In Depth
Peace still elusive for hill people in the Chittagong Hill Tracts
In CHT, apparently, a de facto military rule continues, and ‘Operation Uttaran’ has not been withdrawn, even though it was agreed in the accord to stop targeting the hill people. The authorities are engaged in anti-accord activities with the settlers as an excuse to provide security and protection.
UAE Oil Takes Center Stage In U.S. Pushback Against China
As the U.S.’s new poster-boy oil company proxy in the Middle East, ADNOC has been busy cementing its ties with India.
South Asia-Gulf Migratory Corridor: Impending Challenges
The Covid-19 pandemic has rerouted global migration patterns, restructured migratory corridors, and remapped the fate of millions of migrants and their families across the globe in an unprecedented manner.
India begins its two-year tenure as non-permanent member of UNSC
India will sit in the 15-nation United Nations Security Council for the 2021-22 term as a non-permanent member – the eighth time that the country has had a seat on the powerful horseshoe table.
Russia’s Foreign Policy in 2021: Fourteen Practical Tasks
The idea of Russia as an “island of stability” in the “raging ocean of change” is hopelessly outdated. Challenges and dangers will not bypass Moscow and will require adequate responses from the country’s leadership.
U.S., Iran and inertia, an axis to dampen France’s Lebanese dreams
French President Emmanuel Macron has been spearheading international efforts to rescue Lebanon, a former French protectorate from its deepest crisis since the 1975-1990 civil war.
Strategic Inferences from Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict 2020, post Ceasefire
The conflict highlighted the air battle being influenced maximum by use of drones. The precision strikes by drones on all types of targets were game changers. The future wars will demand much higher reliance on drones to achieve desired effects without fear of human casualties.
ILO study finds migrants earn much less than locals, and the gap is widening
The gap between wages paid to migrant and national workers is big and growing, and may widen further because of the pandemic, the International Labour Organization (ILO) said in a report published on Monday.
Lebanon: UN-backed tribunal sentences Hezbollah militant in Hariri assassination
The UN chief on Friday took note of five concurrent life sentences handed down to a Hezbollah militant, convicted in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in Beirut, fifteen years ago.