In December 2019, Punjab police busted an international gang of drug smugglers operating from Canada, Punjab and Sydney. The gang comprised of nine members, five Indians and four foreigners. They were arrested from different parts of North India, including Punjab,...
The European parliament has signalled fierce opposition to taking forward a market access treaty with China by calling it frozen, in a sign of mounting tensions between the two. Maps voted by an overwhelming majority on Thursday to stop the...
On June 18 Iranians are due to choose their next president after four years under Hassan Rouhani, US sanctions and nationwide protests. What to expect from the man who will lead the power? In the government structure the President of...
What happened when a plane that was travelling from Athens to Vilnius made an abrupt change of course over Belarus to arrest one of its passenger? That the European Union bars Belarusian airlines from flying over or landing in all...
Israel is experiencing a very particular time in its history. After 12 years, Benjamin Netanyahu’s leadership is seriously being questioned, opening up the possibility of a government of change. Politics is intersecting with increasingly obvious signs of identity conflicts and...
“My trip to Europe is about America rallying the world’s democracies,” US President Joe Biden wrote in The Washington Post ahead of his first trip to Europe. Biden’ agenda will begin on Wednesday landing in the United Kingdom before concluding...
The Sri Lankan Parliament’s go-ahead for the Colombo Port City Bill has in effect given the Chinese a carte blanche to operate on Sri Lankan territory, without any strings attached. This is the second such instance after the ceding of...
It has been almost a year, China imposed punitive tariffs on Australian goods in a retaliation for seeking an independent investigation into the Covid-19 outbreak. However, Canberra did not bend to the will of Beijing and rather confronted, causing trade...
About two years ago, the much awaited Bagamoyo Port Project in the Bagamoyo Special Economic Zone, which was being constructed by China Merchants International Co. Ltd. alongside Oman Sovereign Wealth Fund at a cost of US$ 10 billion, scheduled to...
Afghanistan, over its turbulent history, has earned the moniker the “graveyard of empires” and rightly so. Since the great game of the 1800’s no modern empire has been able to dominate this great country. So, when Joseph R. Biden, the...