Author: Vaishali Basu Sharma
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...
Twenty years after 9/11, atop the Presidential Palace in Kabul, the Taliban flag flies high. In one of its first acts after returning to power the Taliban released over 2,300 terrorists from various prisons across ...
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...