[ad_1] At this stage, the World Court did not rule on the core of the case brought by South Africa, that is, whether Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. But an overwhelming majority of the 17 judges presiding over the case voted for emergency measures to be implemented. Delivering the judgement, ICJ President Joan E…
[ad_1] The men sit facing each other in a room on the ground floor. Stuck on the walls are diagrams and flowcharts drawn by children, depicting the components of a computer — once a computer lab run by a NGO, evidenced by the dusty machinery around the room. Today, it is a room for healing…
[ad_1] Sweden’s attempt to join NATO cleared a major hurdle Tuesday (January 23) after Turkey’s parliament supported its membership. For a new country to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), all the existing members have to approve it. Turkey and Hungary had been opposing Sweden’s entry for almost the past two years. Sweden has…
[ad_1] Every year, leaders from various fields, such as business, politics, economics, etc., gather in the Swiss town to discuss challenges facing the world and explore the ways forward. The event has faced criticism for its elite and expensive nature, but the Davos summit still remains relevant, if only for the glimpse it offers of…
[ad_1] The Ramayana has been popular in India for millennia, as text in Sanskrit and many other languages, as folk theatre, as puppet shows, and as countless kathas or oral retellings organised in villages and small towns. However, the epic enjoys popularity much beyond Indian shores, and the spread of the Ramayana is also testimony…
[ad_1] Hong Kong was ceded to the British by the Chinese on January 20, 1841. This development has shaped Hong Kong’s history over the following 183 years — and will continue to do so into the foreseeable future. How? To answer this, we take a look at a brief history of Hong Kong.
[ad_1] Chabahar, which sits at the mouth of the Gulf of Oman, is Iran’s first deepwater port that puts the country on the global oceanic trade route map. The port lies to the west of Iran’s border with Pakistan, about as far as Gwadar, a competing port developed by China in Pakistan, lies to the…
[ad_1] A day after Iran targeted ‘terror bases’ in western Pakistan, India Wednesday stated that it understands “actions that countries take in their self defense” even as it maintained that it has an “uncompromising” position of “zero tolerance” towards terrorism “This is a matter between Iran and Pakistan,” Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal…
[ad_1] Maldives is all of 80,000 sq.km in area and has a meagre population of over half a million. However, it more than makes up for size by the strategic position it enjoys in the Indian Ocean. No wonder then, that before becoming a triangular political flashpoint between India, China, and the US, the archipelago…
[ad_1] The South Korean parliament on Tuesday (January 9) passed a Bill banning the production and sale of dog meat, in a decision that campaigners hailed as a “historic victory” for animal welfare. Although the Bill does not criminalise the consumption of dog meat, it aims to ban the sale, distribution, butchery, and breeding of…
