My Take on the Subject of Ongoing Farmers’ Agitation
There are divergent views regarding the farm protests. The emotionally charged farmers feel that the new farm laws will allow big corporate houses to manipulate the farm sector to serve their purpose and profitability. While the government is saying that the new farm laws will ‘de-stagnate’ the growth of agriculture sector, prevent wastage of food […]
National Asset Monetisation Pipeline
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced an ambitious Rs 6 lakh crore asset monetisation plan. This asset monetisation plan, spread across four years upto 2024-25 and encompasses assets like roads, power-generation facilities, airports, sports stadiums, warehouses, gas pipelines and railway stations and trains. The government plans to encourage both foreign and private investment to utilise […]
China Signs 25-Year Deal with Iran
China and Iran signed an overarching deal aimed at charting the course of their economic, political and trade relations over the next 25 years. The Chinese government plans to invest in Iran and buy oil from the Islamic Republic. This will further strain it’s relations with the U.S. The “Comprehensive Strategic Partnership” agreement, signed in […]
Exercise Malabar of Quad Nations
What is the Malabar Exercise? Malabar is a multilateral war-gaming naval exercise that was started in 1992. It began as a bilateral exercise between the navies of India and the United States. Two more editions of the exercise were carried out in 1995 and 1996, after which there was a break until 2002 in the […]
CONSTITUTIONAL CRISES IN NEPAL
Brief Historical Background to Nepal Politics The Kingdom of Nepal was founded on 25 September 1768 by Prithvi Narayan Shah, a Gorkha king of the Shah dynasty. The Kingdom of Nepal was de jure an absolute monarchy for most of its history. The Politics in Nepal works on the multi-party system under the republic. All the power is handled by the prime minister and cabinet […]
United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS)
The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) was established to define coastal and maritime boundaries, to regulate seabed exploration not within territorial claims, and to distribute revenue from regulated exploration. It was signed on 10 December 198 and lays down a comprehensive regime of law and order in the world’s oceans and seas establishing rules governing all uses of the oceans and […]
US Navy ship USS John Paul Jones in Indian Territorial Waters
A US guided missile destroyer USS John Paul Jones sailed through India’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), 130 nautical miles west of the Lakshadweep Islands, without intimating India on 07 April 2021 — in violation of the Indian law. The US move is a violation of India’s laws. The US Navy has publicly declared it conducted “Freedom […]
The Brexit Deal
Background to Brexit Brexit is an acronym for Britain Exiting European Union. European Union was formed after the second war for economic integration of European countries. EU was a single market with a common currency in which goods and services were traded seamlessly. However England joined it 1973. Cheap labour from Eastern European countries got […]
HYPERLOOP – HIGH SPEED FUTURE INDIA
INTRODUCTION Imagine you are sitting inside a huge shell, which is fired through a gigantic barrel of a mighty gun and you are hurtling through the barrel at the speed of an airplane. Welcome to the world of Hyper Loop, the new mode of transport, a fantasy Sci-fi made true for mankind. The most exciting […]
Battle of Saragarhi Heroic Battle when 21 men fought thousands
September 12 marks the 124th anniversary of the Battle of Saragarhi that has inspired a host of armies. This is considered one of the finest last stands in the military history of the world. Battle of Saragarhi Twenty-one soldiers were pitted against over 8,000 Afridi and Orakzai tribals but they managed to hold the fort […]