India-China Standoff: The fight in the Galwan Valley left at least 20 Indian soldiers dead and raised tensions between the two powers. China did not acknowledge any casualties among its…
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China approves controversial National Security Law
China's parliament, the National People's Congress, passed the resolution to enact the sweeping security legislation, which bans sedition, secession and subversion of the central government and allows mainland China's state…
India-Nepal Border delineation(Sugauli Treaty)
Context: Amid tension with India over constructing of a road till the Lipulekh pass; Nepal is planning to start three armed police border outposts along the India-Nepal border in Uttarakhand.The inauguration…
‘Travel Bubbles’ amid Covid-19
All around the world, as countries decide how to restart international travel amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the idea of a travel bubble — sometimes called a travel corridor — is…
Shekatkar Committee Recommendations
Government has accepted and implemented three important recommendations of Committee of Experts (CoE) under the Chairmanship of Lt General D B Shekatkar (Retd) relating to border Infrastructure. These were concerned…
Mission Sagar
India launched Mission Sagar on Sunday as part of the government’s outreach initiative towards five Island nations in the Indian Ocean amidst the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. About Mission SAGAR: As…
Indian Ocean Commission
Following a request from New Delhi, the Indian Ocean Commission granted observer status to India on March 6 at the Commission’s 34th Council of Ministers. About Indian Ocean Commission (IOC:…
Special Drawing Rights(SDR)
There have been calls from many in recent days for the IMF to boost its power to extend finance to the world’s poorest countries with an expansion of fund members’…
Telemedicine in times of Covid-19
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare with NITI Aayog on Wednesday released the official guidelines for telemedicine practices in the country. These are aimed at allowing registered medical practitioners…
Urban Commons
What are 'Urban Commons'? Commons, then, as the historian Peter Linebaugh (2009) reminds us, involve “being-in-common”, or using resources in more or less shared, more or less non-subtractable ways through…