The world's largest democracy is all set to go to polls beginning April 11. Spread over April-May, India’s 900 million plus electorate will begin casting their votes in the seven phase elections in less than two weeks. In the first phase, 91 Parliamentary constituencies spread over 20 states and union…

A delegation of the Asia-Pacific Group (APG) on money laundering—a regional affiliate of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF)—visited Pakistan to assess if the country has made enough progress on global standards against financial crimes to warrant its exclusion from the watchdog’s grey list. Meetings took place between the FATF…

The world has pledged to protect the polluted, rapidly warming, degraded planet earth, and has laid the groundwork for a radical shift to a more sustainable future, where innovation will be harnessed to tackle environmental challenges. The pledge was made by ministers from 179 UN member states during a five-day…

India has made rapid progress in the area of science and technology in the recent times, with the focus now shifting from fundamental research to application research. The basic thrust now is to take science and technology from laboratories to solve issues of the society and reinvigorate the scientific temper. …

 On March 24, 2019, the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) announced the capture of Baghouz, a town in northeast Syria located in the middle of the scenic Euphrates valley. This was the last remaining outpost of the Daesh (IS) in the embattled country after the quasi-state lost control of its…

The European Union (EU) Foreign Policy Chief, Federica Mogherini held talks with Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi and agreed to kickstart a new strategic engagement plan with Islamabad. The high-level EU visit to Islamabad came weeks after the EU severely condemned the terror attack in Pulwama, which was claimed…

American President, Donald Trump, has brought about a paradigm shift in US policy towards Israel with a mere 35 words tweet. Shifting away from almost half a century of consistent US position on the Golan Heights, Mr. Trump extended recognition to the 500 sq. miles of Syrian territory that was…

The US administration has once again said that Pakistan should stake concrete and verifiable action against terrorists and their organizations operating from its soil. In yet another indictment, Washington has again asked Pakistan to take “sustained, verifiable and irreversible” action against the perpetrators of terrorism, while warning Islamabad that “another…

The head of Afghanistan’s Independent Elections Commission, Hawa Alam Nuristani has said that the country’s presidential election has been postponed by two more months, which is now planned for September 28, to give the authorities more time to organize the ballot and fix the problems that occurred during the October…

France’s decision to move ahead on its own and declare Masood Azhar, the Pakistan based Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM) Chief, as a global terrorist could result in giving a boost to India’s continuing fight against terror. The French decision was announced after the UN Security Council had failed to act on similar…