The Crisis in Venezuela is the socioeconomic crisis that Venezuela has undergone since Hugo Chávez’s tenure and which extended over the years into the current presidency of Nicolás Maduro. During the year 2016, for example, consumer prices rose 800%, the economy contracted by 18.6%, and hunger escalated to the point that the “Venezuela’s Living Conditions Survey” (ENCOVI) found nearly 75 percent of the population had […]
The Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation, or BRF was held on May 14–15, 2017 in Beijing, and claimed to draw 29 foreign heads of state and government and representatives from more than 130 countries and 70 international organizations. The purpose of the forum as described by Wang Xiaotao, deputy head of the National Development and Reform Commission, […]
Pakistan’s counter intelligence agency claimed to have arrested Kulbhushan Sudhir Jadhav, a retired naval officer of India, from its restive province of Balochistan on March 3, 2016. India’s intelligence agencies suspect that a Sunni radical group Jaishul Adil is responsible for the kidnapping of Indian businessman Kulbhushan Yadav from Chabahar, Iran. He was sentenced to […]
Nobody can describe the outcomes of Iran’s 2017 Presidential election better than Professor Hamid Dabashi at Columbia University- “ In a spectacular show of the democratic will of a nation against the entrenched theocratic institutions of a state, the overwhelming majority of Iranians have voted Hassan Rouhani back to office to continue with his snail-pace transformation of […]
The 19th South Korean presidential election was held on 9 May 2017, after the impeachment and dismissal of Park Geun-hye. The election was conducted in a single round on a first-past-the-post basis. In the multiparty election the participating candidates included the Democratic Party’s candidate, Moon Jae-in, former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who declined to run in February, Ahn Hee-jung, People’s Party’s Ahn Cheol-soo and Liberty Korea Party’s candidate, Hong Jun-pyo […]
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull arrived on a four day visit to India on April 9. Mr. Turnbull was received by Mr. Narendra Modi at Rastrapati Bhawan and was then accorded the ceremonial guard of honour in the forecourt of the presidential residence. This is Turnbull’s first bilateral visit to India since he assumed office […]
The Brexit bill was signed (March 16) by Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II giving British PM Theresa May the legal authority to trigger Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, the laid down procedure within the EU for a member state wishing to leave. The royal assent would enable British Prime Minister to start negotiations with the European […]
As American President Donald Trump is trying to implement his unrealistic pledges during his election campaign, he is trying to display his commitment to his pledges by symbolism like gestures of bonhomie with the new President of Taiwan and prompting Japan and South Korea to have increased presence in the South China Sea. Reuters reported […]
The geo-politics of South Asia is changing. South Asia has come to limelight due to spurt in terrorism, rise of regional powers China and India and flash points in the region between India and Pakistan and India and China. The nuclear scepter is also hanging on the region. We can see how China is making […]
Sometimes as now people are in a rejection mode prompted by their frustration over the way things move against their interest and aspirations. In such situations, political and economic ideas run counter to the established rational way of thinking. There is a sharp rise in support for extreme right wing ideology in the contemporary world, […]
