CURRENT AFFAIRS

The unfolding tragedy in Myanmar, occasioned by the military overturning the election results last month, portends a new cycle of political repression, humanitarian disaster and geopolitical instability.

A novel virus SARS-CoV-2 overtook an ancient bacteria, tuberculosis or TB, as the leading infectious cause of death.

The Budget session of Parliament ended two weeks ahead of the original plan, as many political leaders are busy with campaigning for the forthcoming State Assembly elections.

Recently many countries announced net-zero emission targets. In the next 30 years, they aim to reduce their emissions of climate change-causing carbon dioxide and other GHGs.

The friendship between India and Bangladesh is historic, evolving over the last 50 years. India’s political, diplomatic, military and humanitarian support during Bangladesh’s Liberation War played an important role towards Bangladesh’s independence.

While world is still in the grip of the COVID-19 pandemic, which is airborne, world has forgotten that another such blight could well come from contaminated water.

Government is putting the flagging economyback on center stage after announcing the biggest privatization drive in more than a decade and making renewed attempts to ring fence the crisis-ridden shadow banking sector.

Recently, several petitions were submitted to the Courts, seeking permission for aborting pregnancies at a gestational age beyond the current permissible limit on grounds of foetal abnormalities or pregnancies due to sexual violence faced by women.

India suffered serious economic contraction due to the COVID lockdown. But the Indian economy now appears to have turned the corner.

Recent U.S. Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin’s visit to New Delhi was significant for many reasons.