‘Less severe’ but ‘still deep’ recession predicted: IMF
According to the report, with the COVID-19pandemic continuing to spread, many countries have slowed reopening, and some are reinstating partial lockdowns.
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Infrastructure key to Defence strength
Border roads, railway, and communication infrastructure that is crucial for not just war fighting but keeping loyal border populations rewarded for their unflinching loyalty to the nation, requires a very serious strategic rethink.
India Japan finalize key cyber security pacts
The two ministers also concurred that the Indo-Pacific has acquired greater salience in recent times and underscored the need for India and Japan to work together for the benefit of the region.
India, US, Japan & Australia agree to step up coordination in Indo-Pacific amid China’s growing assertiveness
Addressing the 2nd Quad ministerial meeting, Prime Minister Suga said a free and open Indo-Pacific is “widely recognised by the international community as a vision of peace and prosperity of this region,” and that his government’s basic policy is to “further continue advancing our members to this end.”
Xi pitches for closer ties with Bangladesh, calls for joint promotion of Belt Road Initiative
Bangladesh also is among over a dozen countries where the final phase of clinical trials of Chinese vaccine is being conducted.
Strategic Energy Partnership emerged as cornerstone of expanding India-US ties: Envoy
India’s Ambassador to the US Taranjit Singh Sandhu, in an op-ed in The Houston Chronicle, wrote that numbers speak for themselves.
Death toll mounts as clashes continue between Armenia and Azerbaijan
Any move to all-out war could drag in major regional powers Russia and Turkey. Moscow has a defence alliance with Armenia, which provides vital support to the enclave and is its lifeline to the outside world, while Ankara backs its own ethnic Turkic kin in Azerbaijan.
12 factors driving Indian Americans towards Trump: Survey
“It is mostly about the Trump-Modi factor,” the survey said, adding that Indian Americans increasingly believe that the teamwork of Trump and Modi over the next four years will successfully checkmate China at the world stage
G7 supports extension of G20 debt freeze, calls for reforms to address ‘shortcomings’
In a joint statement, the ministers from the Group of Seven advanced economies said they “strongly regret” moves by some countries to skip participation by classifying their state-owned institutions as commercial lenders.
At UN, China’s Xi Jinping says no intention to fight ‘a Cold War or hot one’ with any country
In what appeared to be a rebuke to U.S. President Donald Trump, though both leaders’ speeches were pre-recorded, Xi called for a global response to the virus and giving the World Health Organization a leading role.