Category: International News

Indo-Finnish Virtual Network Centre On Quantum Computing: India and Finland announced the decision to establish an Indo-Finnish Virtual Network Centre on Quantum Computing. Science and Technology Minister Dr Jitendra Singh and visiting Finland Minister of Economic Affairs Mika Lintila, who is currently in India, announced this. An MoU for this was also signed. The Indian […]

Strikes In The Gaza Strip: Israel has carried out strikes in the Gaza Strip after a rocket was fired from the Palestinian enclave into Israel. The armed wing of Hamas have announced that it fired on Israeli planes. Hamas is a Palestinian Islamist political organization and militant group that has waged war on Israel since […]

Russia As a “State Sponsor Of Terrorism”: Ukraine has requested US to designate Russia as a “state sponsor of terrorism”. The designation would activate perhaps the harshest suite of sanctions available with the US against Russia. The US Secretary of State (the minister primarily in charge of foreign relations) has the power to designate countries […]

What Is a ‘Poison Pill’ Defence? Twitter countered Elon Musk’s offer to buy the company for more than $43 billion with a corporate tool known as a poison pill, a defensive strategy by boardrooms trying to fend off takeovers. This defense mechanism was developed in the 1980s as company leaders, facing corporate raiders and hostile […]

Tanzania’s First Woman President : Samia Suluhu Hassan Samia Suluhu Hassan is a member of the Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) party that is currently ruling the country. She is Tanzania’s first female president. She is the third woman head of government of a country in the East African Community. The other two female heads of […]

India Has Been Elected To The United Nations Economic And Social Council’s (ECOSOC) Four Major Bodies: India has been elected to the United Nations Economic and Social Council’s (ECOSOC) four major bodies, including the Commission on Science and Technology for Development. To the Committee for Economic, Social and Cultural Right, Ambassador Preeti Saran has been […]

Lynching a Federal Hate Crime : US U.S. President Joe Biden has signed a bill into law to make lynching a federal hate crime, more than 100 years after such legislation was first proposed. The Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act is named after the Black teenager whose killing in Mississippi in the summer of 1955 became […]

First Meeting Of The Inter-Ministerial Coordination Group: The first meeting of the Inter-Ministerial Coordination Group (IMCG) at Secretary level was convened by India’s Foreign Secretary. The IMCG has been set up as a high-level mechanism towards mainstreaming of India’s ‘Neighbourhood First’ policy vision that sought to develop better relations with the country’s neighbours. IMCG is […]

UN Peacekeepers: Canada and allies are planning to work togather to support among United Nations General Assembly members, including China, for a peacekeeping mission in Ukraine. Countries opposing Russia’s invasion should seek a recommendation from the General Assembly for a peacekeeping mission with the goal of keeping humanitarian corridors open. While decisions about establishing, maintaining […]

The Civil War In Yemen: The civil war in Yemen — between the Saudi-led coalition and the Iran-backed Houthi rebels — saw a historic two-month truce deal last week, the first of its kind since 2016. The parties agreed to halt all offensive military, air, ground and maritime operations inside Yemen and across its borders. […]