On Easter Sunday, i.e., April 21, 2019, suicide bombers killed at least 253 people and injured some 500 at churches and top-end hotels across Sri Lanka. Starting from 08:45 Six blasts took place within a short space of time. Three were at churches – in the Kochchikade district of the capital, Colombo; in Negombo, to […]
Apart from eliminating corruption, boosting growth of GDP and the Industrial sector and improvement in infrastructure, the political parties across the board are trying to cajole the voters on several issues- some are populist issues, some long protracted ideological and political issues and some socio-economic problems looking into the face of future of emerging Indian […]
As the right wing total seats have turned out to be 65 in poll results, despite Benjamin Netanyahu getting a tie at 35 with opposition leader Benny Gantz, he is set to serve a fifth term as Israel’s prime minister after his main rival conceded that he had lost the election. His number two, Yair […]
Singapore hosted the 33rd ASEAN Summit and Related Summits at Suntec Singapore Convention Centre from 11 to 15 November 2018. The Summits were chaired by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. PM Lee had a Working Dinner with ASEAN leadersm as well as Summits with China, Japan, Republic of Korea, Russia, and the United States. He […]
The yellow vests movement is a protest movement that started online in May 2018 and led to demonstrations that began in France on Saturday, 17 November 2018 and rapidly spread to Wallonia, the formerly heavily industrialised southern part of Belgium. France has experienced social unrest and massive protests across the country since then. The demonstrations were initially held to […]
Yemen is at present bruised because of ongoing political instability, civil war, water crisis and Malaria. The conflict has its roots in the failure of a political transition supposed to bring stability to Yemen following an Arab Spring uprising that forced its longtime authoritarian president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, to hand over power to his deputy […]
On May 8, US President Donald Trump announced Washington’s withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal. The US president said that old sanctions would be restored, and new ones would be introduced in case Tehran attempted to pursue its nuclear ambitions. At the same time, Trump called for making a new agreement. However, Trump actually advanced […]
The US- North Korea Summit took place on March 12 at Capella Singapore hotel in Sentosa Island after months of diplomatic twists and turns indicating some thaw in icy relationship, leaving the question wide open how long the agreement lasts and whether it is implemented on real ground. The two leaders held one-on-one meeting for […]
President Donald Trump is trying to make America great at the cost of other countries and it is reflected in his unilateral policy decision regarding imposition of import tariff without any iota of concern for the comparative advantage of other countries, the same thing on which America was once reaping huge trade advantages. He slapped […]
Incumbent President of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro was re-elected in Presidential elections, held on 20 May 2018. Thus he was re- elected for another (second) six-year term. For various reasons the election considered a snap election, was postponed several times from the original scheduled for December 2018 to April 22 and then finally to May 20. […]