International Relations in India & Beyond
Watchdog organisations have long held that the UK has a pressing high-end money laundering problem. The country’s financial regulator The Financial Conduct Authority has fined several banks in recent weeks over anti-money laundering failings....
Last month a 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman named Mahsa Amini died in detention after the country’s morality police held her for wearing an unsuitable hijab. Her death sparked protests across Iran. Initial demonstrations against the...
It is now more than 50 years since the UN General Assembly negotiated its first anti-terrorism convention. And almost 30 years ago the UN Security Council (UNSC) imposed sanctions against Libya for sponsoring acts...
Over the last decade, China’s technology industry has grown at a breakneck pace. Once considered incapable of innovation, China’s contribution to technological advancement has become impossible to ignore as it continues its steady rise....
Although a fairly vast subject, it is important to broadly comprehend how China, the world’s largest economy (in Purchasing Power Parity terms) is fairing in a post-Covid world. Last year, China’s economy overtook that...
The extremely rare and vulnerable one-horned Indian rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis) was once widespread in India’s North East region, but illegal poaching has reduced its numbers to just a few thousand. It is an oft-stated...
Forty countries around the world, representing half of the global economy, have imposed far-reaching sanctions on Russia, but then again almost half of the world have not. Punitive sanctions against Russia have come in...
The ongoing war in Ukraine should provoke discussion about Washington’s policy of exporting vast quantities of weapons to East Europe. Notwithstanding their limited financial resources, the US is pushing Eastern European countries to upgrade...
Amidst a severe economic crisis following the Covid-19 pandemic, Sri Lanka also appears to be experiencing ethno-religious animosity. International ratings agencies have warned that Gothabaya Rajapaksa’s government could be on the brink of default....
In June this year, India’s Border Security Force (BSF) nabbed a Chinese intruder at the Malik Sultanpur outpost, when he was attempting to stealthily cross the international boundary between India-Bangladesh. Interestingly, he claimed that...
