APPLE said it would make fresh investments to set up solar and wind projects in Europe and called on its suppliers to decarbonise operations related t...
World’s Biggest Electric Cruise Ship
The largest electric cruise ship in the world has returned back to port in Yichang in central Hubei province, China after travelling up and down the Y...
G20 Summit
The Indian delegation, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, was in Rome to attend the G20 Leaders’ Summit. PM Modi held a series of bilateral me...
Facebook changes name of parent company to ‘Meta’
Facebook changed its parent company name to “Meta” as the tech giant tries to move past being a scandal-plagued social network to its virt...
Coup in Sudan
Sudan has descended into crisis after the military dissolved the country’s power-sharing government and declared a state of emergency. Gen. Abde...
UN Food Systems Summit
ª There is a need to achieve the United Nations-mandated Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) by 2030 and address climate change in view of food produc...
India’s month-long Presidency of powerful UNSC ends
India’s month-long Presidency of the powerful UN Security Council has ended with “substantive” outcomes on key global issues including a strong resolu...
China’s new maritime law
From 1st September, 2021 China’s new maritime rules designed to control the entry of foreign vessels in what Beijing calls “Chinese territorial waters...
India-Maldives mega-infra project
Maldives government officially signed an agreement with Mumbai-based company AFCONS, for the construction of the Greater Malé Connectivity Project (GM...
Algeria cuts diplomatic ties with Morocco
Algeria announced that it has severed diplomatic relations with Morocco due to “hostile actions”, following months of resurgent tensions between the N...
“Shared Destiny-2021”
The militaries of China, Pakistan, Mongolia and Thailand will take part in a multinational peacekeeping exercise to be organised by the People’s...
China’s three-child policy
China’s legislature formally amended the country’s family planning rules to allow couples to have three children, also announcing a number of policy m...
Malaysian PM resigns after failing to get majority support
Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin has resigned, following months of political turmoil. Muhyiddin gave confirmation of his resignation in a tel...
India’s 5-point agenda to enhance maritime cooperation
Prime Minister Narendra Modi presided over a UN Security Council (UNSC) open Debate via video conferencing recently. The agenda of the discussion was:...
UNCLOS : ‘Laws of the Seas
The UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) has been accepted by the UN Security Council as the legal framework applicable to activities in the o...