CURRENT AFFAIRS

In recent years, the Arctic region has become an emerging center of global geopolitics. While melting ice due to climate change is providing new trade routes and resources, it has also intensified competition between superpowers. In this context, US President Donald Trump's intervention in Greenland and claims of Sino-Russian influence over Greenland reflect international concern about China's role in the Arctic.

Recently, particularly in the context of Venezuela, unilateral military actions by the United States have reignited global debates about violations of international law and the weakening of the UN-led multilateral order.

The United States has indicated that India will be invited to join the US-led Pax Silica initiative next month.

The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) has projected that India will grow by 7.4% in the current financial year, driven primarily by strong domestic consumption and sustained public investment.

India’s External Affairs Minister recently participated in India’s first-ever engagement with the Weimar Triangle, holding discussions with counterparts from France and Poland, along with representatives from Germany.

China recently conducted large-scale military exercises around Taiwan under the banner of “Justice Mission 2025”, involving coordinated deployment of army, navy, air force, and missile units.

The drills come amid heightened tensions in the Taiwan Strait, following major US arms sales to Taiwan, and reflect Beijing’s increasing use of military signalling and coercive deterrence to assert its sovereignty claims over the island.

Denmark and Greenland have strongly rejected US President Donald Trump’s assertion that the United States needs Greenland “for defence”, calling any attempt to annex or purchase the island unacceptable and absurd.

The United States has launched a large-scale military operation in Venezuela, capturing President Nicolás Maduro and transferring him and his wife to the US, where they have been charged in New York with drug trafficking and weapons-related offences. The operation marks a dramatic escalation in US–Venezuela tensions and raises serious questions about sovereignty, regime change, and international law.

Bangladesh is currently going through a period of deep political crisis and widespread violence. Against this backdrop, the return of Tarique Rahman, the acting president of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), after 17 years of exile, has given a new twist to the country's politics. However, this development, along with the intensification of anti-India rhetoric, has raised serious questions not only about internal stability but also about regional diplomacy.

Recently, Israel formally recognized the Republic of Somaliland, which declared itself independent, as an independent and sovereign nation.