Burkina Faso: The death toll from the worst militant attack in Burkina Faso in recent years has risen to 132, after armed assailants laid siege overnight to a village in the jihadist-plagued northeast. Burkina Faso is a landlocked country in West Africa and is bordered by Mali to the northwest, Niger to the northeast, Benin […]
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Joint Statement On Multilateralism: BRICS
Joint Statement On Multilateralism: BRICS: The BRICS Foreign Ministers, in a recent meet, put out a joint statement on multilateralism. BRICS is an acronym for the grouping of the world’s leading emerging economies, namely Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. Multilateralism: It is the process of organizing relations between groups of three or more […]
Operation Pangea XIV
Operation Pangea XIV: The International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) through its Operation Pangea XIV targeted the sale of fake medicines and products online. More than 1.10 lakh web links, including websites and online marketplaces, were taken down in the operation. Operation Pangea is a well-established international effort of Interpol to disrupt the online sale of […]
G7 Grouping On Taxing Multinational Companies
G7 Grouping: Advanced economies making up the G7 grouping have reached a “historic” deal on taxing multinational companies. The deal announced involving the US, the UK, Germany, France, Canada, Italy, and Japan, is likely to be put before a G20 meeting in July. The first decision that has been ratified is to force multinationals to […]
CEM’s Industrial Deep Decarbonization Initiative (IDDI)
Clean Energy Ministerial’s (CEM) Industrial Deep Decarbonization Initiative (IDDI): India and the UK have launched a new workstream to promote industrial energy efficiency under Clean Energy Ministerial’s (CEM) Industrial Deep Decarbonization Initiative (IDDI) coordinated by UNIDO (United Nations Development Industrial organisation). It was launched in the ongoing 12th CEM (CEM12) Meeting, which is virtually hosted […]
Palestine and India : Issue Regarding Human Rights
Palestine Blamed India For Suppressing Its Human Rights Of All People: Palestine blamed India for suppressing its human rights of all people as India abstained from the latest resolution on the Palestinian issue. India abstained from voting on a resolution at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) that came up in the backdrop of […]
BRICS Foreign Ministers Meeting 2021
BRICS Foreign Ministers Meeting: BRICS foreign ministers meeting held virtually on June 1, 2021. During the minister’s meet, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar highlighted significant principles which were guiding BRICS. He also referred to international law and the UN Charter which recognizes sovereign equality of all states and respects territorial integrity. According to him, […]
US- Russia Open Skies Treaty
US- Russia Open Skies Treaty: US administration led by Biden does not seek to re-join Open Skies Treaty with Russia. The treaty is a key arms control agreement, that allowed the US and Russia to fly surveillance aircraft over their military facilities According to the US administration, the US does not seek to renter the […]
Switzerland and European Union
Switzerland – European Union: Switzerland said goodbye to years of negotiations with the European Union over a proposed overarching agreement that would have upgraded its relations with the bloc – which are currently governed by a patchwork of more than 120 bilateral deals. The talks failed after the two sides could not agree over issues […]
NAM (Non-Aligned Movement) Countries Virtual Meet
NAM (Non-Aligned Movement) Countries Virtual Meet: Dr. Harsh Vardhan, Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare virtually participated in a meeting with Ministers of Health of the NAM (Non-Aligned Movement) Countries. The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) is a forum of 120 developing world states that are not formally aligned with or against any major power bloc. […]
