India, UAE vow to strengthen energy cooperation
UAE is a key oil supplier to India and a partner in an Indian joint venture that plans to build a 1.2 million barrels per day (bpd) refinery and petrochemical complex on the country’s west coast.
Year: 2021
Peace with Pakistan will give India direct access to Central Asia: Imran Khan
India last month said that it desires normal neighbourly relations with Pakistan in an environment free of terror, hostility and violence. India has said the onus is on Pakistan to create an environment free of terror and hostility
Digital Transformation of Education
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Quad Summit 2021: Why is China Rattled?
Quad’s determination for collective response to COVID-19 pandemic in terms of synergizing vaccination efforts to roll out one billion vaccines by 2022, has attracted global attention.
India, Bangladesh likely to sign three MoUs during PM Modi’s visit
Foreign Secretary Masud bin Momen said the MoUs were likely to be signed in the field of disaster management and cooperation between some institutions of both countries
Syria’s decade of conflict takes massive toll on women and girls
This week, Syria marks a grim anniversary: 10 years since the start of the country’s grinding conflict.
COVID disrupts contraception services, leads to 1.4 million unintended pregnancies, says UNFPA
One year since COVID-19 was officially declared a pandemic, the UN’s reproductive health agency said that an estimated 12 million women have experienced disruptions to their family planning services.
Don’t Call Them ‘ISIS Brides’: Why the West’s Take on Radicalized Muslim Women Is So Wrong
The Supreme Court’s refusal to allow ISIS recruit Shamima Begum to return to the UK has triggered a renewed but broken debate that romanticizes, orientalizes and infantilizes women who choose violence
International arms transfers plateau after years of growth; Middle Eastern arms imports grow most
Arms imports by India decreased by 33 per cent between 2011-15 and
2016-20. Russia was the most affected supplier
Our four nations are committed to a free, open, secure and prosperous Indo-Pacific region: Joint Op-ed by QUAD leaders
by Joe Biden, Narendra Modi, Scott Morrison and Yoshihide Suga, Washington Post Joe Biden is president of the United States.