International Relations in India & Beyond
Some critical issues about the effects of stand-alone overseas listing of domestic companies are an outflow of domestic wealth overseas, flight of intellectual property rights, control, management and ownership of data. Leading investors including...
Globally an increasing number of complex money laundering operations, that allow criminals to transfer large amounts of illegal cash are exposed to have a Chinese connection. As China’s economy becomes more globally connected, money...
With over four lakh people officially dead, for Indians the ferocity of the second wave of COVID-19 has been nothing short of a calamitous. Provisionally to circumvent high mortality in the event of a...
Protests against the Junta have extended to involve professionals from all walks of life and across major cities in Myanmar. With ethnic minorities voicing support for the urban protestors in Mandalay, Yangon and other...
Seizure statistics in India suggest that that the problem of amphetamine-type stimulants (ATS) especially Methamphetamine (or meth; commonly called “speed,” “ice,” “crystal,” “glass”) is becoming complex and expansive, both as trafficked substances and in...
Imran Khan’s government has issued a ban against the Tehreek-e-Labbaik-Pakistan (TLP) far-right Islamist political party under terrorism laws and issued a notification accordingly. This extreme step was taken after TLP’s supporters carried out protests across...
There is a lot of excitement over PM Narendra Modi-led government’s aspirational goal of selling only electric vehicles by 2030. There is little doubt that the future of cars is electric – and for...
With the world’s biggest inoculation drives against COVID-19, manufacturing about 60% of vaccines globally and shipping millions of free doses to friendly neighbours in the region, in what is being described as “vaccine diplomacy”,...
Despite the coronavirus pandemic imposing lockdowns, India’s Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI)’s seizures of smuggled foreign-origin gold in the country increased by around 13 per cent in value in 2019-20. Smugglers are now increasingly relying on...
“The Danger to my life was increasing daily” Pakistan’s dirty war against its own people continues unabated. This time the target of its indiscriminate eradication of Baloch activists was prominent student leader Karima Mehrab...
