SCO 2022: What worries Xi?
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s first foreign visit since the outbreak of the Covid pandemic – to Samarkand for the SCO summit – seems to have proved largely counter-productive.
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Fault Lines Within The SCO
For all the pomp and ceremony at last week’s Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, its defining image is likely to be Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging Russian President Vladimir Putin to seek peace in Ukraine, telling the Russian leader that “today’s era is not one for war.”
India’s First Indigenous CERVICAL CANCER VACCINE: A Landmark Achievement
Urvashi Prasad Cervical cancer is the second most common cancer among Indian women. According to the World Health Organisation, there are around 1.23 lakh new cases of cervical cancer annually in India and approximately 67,000 fatalities. This translates into a…
Indo-Pacific Economic Framework: Amidst an intricate web of multilateral relationships
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.
The Dubious Idea of Bringing Cheetah to India
Manoj Misra Meme creators would have been more charitable, even congratulatory, if Prime Minister Narendra Modi had released a pride of Asiatic lions, instead of exotic African cheetahs, into Kuno national park on his birthday. The event would have been surprisingly…
In The 21st Century, India Springing As A Geopolitical And Geo-Economic Player
Harsh V Pant India has a lot going for it, with its economy doing relatively well and its diplomacy bringing the West closer despite some points of difference, even as China falls out of favour with the West. India must…
Queen Elizabeth ll Spesh Departure: Loved and Mourned Around the World
TK Arun For people who lived through unsettling changes, the monarchy served as a beacon of continuity, and therefore, of reassuring stability; the same Queen bestowing the same beatific smile, from under a similarly unfashionable hat, swearing in prime ministers…