International Relations in India & Beyond
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...
As several vaccine makers worldwide are publishing preliminary data showing efficacy rates of 90 percent and higher, China too has been busy with producing a vaccine. How precise this vaccine is remains to be...
Pakistan has been retained on the Paris-based global money laundering and terrorist financing overseer Financial Action Task Force’s (FATF) grey list. This shouldn’t make India sanguine. India is itself scheduled for a FATF evaluation...
At a time when the world is struggling to cope with the consequences of the deadly coronavirus pandemic which is by all evidence is the result of Gain of Function Research, the application of...
The world is witnessing a major epidemic caused by the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) as termed by the World Health Organization (WHO). Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by SARS-CoV-2, initially came to attention in...
