The election victory of Lula DA Silva in Brazil and Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel, despite their extremely opposite political ideologies, will put India well placed in the current global political scenario.
The signing of the maritime demarcation agreement covering 330 sq miles between extreme rivals — Lebanon and Israel — is no mean feat.
The launch of the Indo-Pacific economic framework (IPEF) for prosperity by President Joe Biden on May 23, 2022, from Tokyo reflects the recuperation of US’s geo-economic initiative surfing onboard the multilateral platform within the geo-political construct, i.e., Indo-pacific, after five years since Donald Trump pulled out from Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) in 2017.
While the nation’s attention is drawn acutely to the western sector of the border between India and China in the wake of the bloody fisticuffs on the night of June 15, 2020, and the aftermath, developments in the Indian eastern flank are no less alarming. Indeed, China’s revival of irredentist claims, strategic border domination efforts, the creation of pinpricks or even waging psychological warfare against India. These are, of course, stoutly countered by India by matching, if not overpowering, build-up of capabilities, plans, strategic alignments, and diplomatic manoeuvres.
Tikender Singh Panwar Slums require a new paradigm approach for comprehension. Just treating slums as ugly settlements and a tarnished spot in the city smacks of a highly elitist class viewpoint prevalent even in the planning process. Slums are a…
Tikender Singh Panwar The increasing cost of production and the increase in GST on cartons has triggered protests in Himachal Pradesh Apple growers in Himachal Pradesh are out on the streets some three decades after their last big agitation. The…