Thousands have been killed and injured, along with millions displaced, as the expansion of war to other theatres and countries becomes imminent, yet the efforts to secure a ceasefire remain in limbo due to a lack of determination, equity, and enforceability. Suffering on both sides is significant.
IMPRI Center for International Relations and Strategic Studies, IMPRI Impact and Policy Research Institute, New Delhi, hosted a panel discussion on ‘Balancing Priorities: Defence, Foreign Policy, and the Union Budget 2024-25’ under its 5th Annual Series of Thematic Deliberation and Analysis of Union Budget 2024-25 on 29 July 2024. This diplomatic dialogue aimed to delve into the heart of India’s security and its place on the world stage addressed under Union Budget 2024-25.
Although both China and the US proclaim their support for the ‘Two State Solution’ to the Palestinian-Israel issue, they seem to be on the two opposing banks of the ‘River to the Sea’ chimera claimed by both Israel and Palestine.
PM Modi’s just concluded two-day visit to Russia has not only bridged the annual summitry hiatus, but also reinforced the special and privileged strategic partnership
Prime Minister Narendra Modi was on an official visit to Moscow from July 8-9 which happened to be his first bilateral one in the Modi 3.0 era.
This was also in the backdrop of the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war and after a gap of nearly five years. His last visit was to Vladivostok in 2019 for the Far Eastern Economic Forum where he was invited as the Chief Guest given Russian focus for attracting greater strategic and economic engagement by India in the region. Several announcements and commitments were made.
Every year on June 30, Our world celebrates the International Day of Parliamentarism, also known as World Parliament Day. On this day in 1889, the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) was established by a small group of parliamentarians who believed that parliamentary dialogue and diplomacy are essential to settling differences rather than going on to war, 135 years later, nearly every country in the world has some form of parliament, accounting to a total of 190 today.
The official 22nd India-Russia annual summit took place in Moscow on the 8th of July 2024. This was also the first time PM Modi visited Moscow since the start of the Russia-Ukraine conflict in 2021.
In the last four decades, however, attempts to assassinate presidents or presidential nominees had seemed relegated to the past.