Author: AasthaDutta

Uzair Bashir Khan, 28, left his house in the southern Kashmir village of Nagam on a scorching July morning in 2022, informing one of his uncles and his paternal grandmother that he had plans to negotiate an arrangement for the electrical installation of an establishment that was still under progress in Sonamarg. He said he might have to stay the night there. He put forth a lot of effort and was sure the builder would accept his proposal. His aunt Maisoora Jan said that Uzair had last spoken to someone in the family during that chat. Who is Uzair Bashir?…

Jinping’s government announced a propaganda blitz on campuses; an unsettling addition to their curricula: an introductory course on how to capture spies, early this September. Beware! Spooks Are Everywhere Reportedly to the country’s espionage service, movies were broadcast onto faculty screens at the government-run Tsinghua University ordering instructors and students to form a “defence line” opposing foreign troops, while the Beijing University of Technology had a garden party with a national security theme. Even invited to participate in an engaging training game titled Who’s The Spy, students at Beihang University, an aeronautics school under US sanctions for its military connections,…

China’s defence minister’s mysterious disappearance, the most recent in a series of changes in the country’s highest levels, is fueling doubt about President Xi Jinping’s leadership. According to experts and diplomats, the world’s second-largest economy’s administration may lose some of its credibility as a result of the increasing volatility. Corruption Scam: China’s Administration In Doubts Defence Minister Li Shangfu is being investigated for corruption in the purchase of military equipment, according to Reuters. He has skipped meetings, even ones with no fewer than one foreign colleague, while he last made an appearance in late August. In July, the month of…

Pakistan presently has around 170 nuclear weapons, and depending on the present rate of proliferation, this number could perhaps climb to over 200 by the year 2025, calculates leading American nuclear experts. Pakistan’s Increasing Nuclear Warhead Inventory “We believe that Pakistan currently has a nuclear arsenal inventory that consists of roughly 170 warheads,” the Nuclear Notebook column, which originally appeared in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on September 11 and was cited by PTI, said. In 1999, the US Defence Intelligence Agency predicted that Pakistan would possess 60 to 80 warheads by 2020, but since then, a number of…

Sudan’s envoy from the U.N., in his farewell address to the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday, who had been rejected by the country’s military leadership, announced his resignation and warned that the struggle between the competing military commanders in Sudan “could be transforming into a full-blown civil war.” The combat is still going on, according to Volker Perthes, who continues to wage war outside of Sudan, and neither party appears to be near “a conclusive military triumph.” The conflict in Sudan’s western Darfur area, he added, “has escalated dramatically,” with populations being harassed based on their ethnic background. Sudan: Just…

Google had used its control of the internet search industry to exclude rivals and stifle creativity, alleged the Department of Justice at the start of the largest U.S. antitrust trial in a quarter-century. Google’s Popularity: Sheer Manipulation Or Genuine Competition? According to Kenneth Dintzer, the senior counsel for the Justice Department, “this issue is about the future of the web and whether Google’s search engine is ever going to encounter genuine opposition.” Federal attorneys and state attorneys general will make an effort over the next 10 weeks to show that Google manipulated the market in its direction by making its…

India and Saudi Arabia’s very first such drill would involve collaborative bilateral training between the two militaries. The drills, which are expected to take place in the following fiscal year, would send several Indian personnel to Saudi Arabia. To channel the $100 billion in investments that the Saudi side had pledged during the crown prince’s most recent travel to India in February 2019, the two nations decided to establish a joint working group (JWG). In December 2020, Indian Army Chief General MM Naravane travelled to Saudi Arabia, which was another first for both nations. India And Saudi Arabia: A Powerful…

The G20’s disagreements over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine had been anticipated to be broad and severe to allow for an agreement for a unified proclamation at the leaders’ summit in Delhi. But India’s negotiators, working with other nations’ teams, achieved the New Delhi proclamation. Following are some conclusions from the meeting: 1. G20 Summit: Delhi’s Spectacular Success  India is celebrating reaching an agreement on the New Delhi Declaration at the G20 conference in Delhi. This was accomplished by deciding that it was not necessary to specifically address Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Instead, the subject that has divided the globe for…

US President Joe Biden emphasised the importance of the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC), which officially began operations on Saturday. He described it as a huge accomplishment and a “game-changing investment” for the US. In order to promote employment and improve food availability on a global scale, he emphasised the US’s commitment to funding the innovative train line that runs from Angola to the Indian Ocean. He predicted that in the next ten years, the phrase “economic corridor” will be widely used. Inauguration Of IMEC: Biden Calls It Huge Deal The opening of IMEC was officially announced by Prime Minister…

World Bank’s G20 policy paper states that without Digital Payment Infrastructure (DPI) like Jan Dhan Bank accounts, Aadhaar, and Mobile phones (the JAM trinity), India may have needed 47 years to reach the economic inclusion rate of 80% that it accomplished in just six years. The record has now been obtained by News18. The entire amount of UPI transactions during the most recent fiscal year was approximately 50% of India’s nominal GDP, according to a World Bank report. “With the usage of DPI, banks’ onboarding expenses for consumers in India dropped from $23 to $0.1. Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) enabled…