Author: Ritik Pal

The 12th WTO ministerial conference at Geneva is extended for a day to 16 June, In an urgent communication dispatched to heads of delegation today by the WTO’s secretariat reads. The conference is ongoing from 12 June which was held till 15 June, but the ongoing contention between member states on different matters such as patent waiver, fisheries subsidy agreement and the stockpile of food items by the government, is seeking more time to reach on consensus. The major non-convergence issue is the fisheries subsidy agreement. The issue of exploitative fishing is a grave concern for the world community and…

China-Pakistan agreed to further advance their defence and anti-terrorism cooperation. Pakistani Army Chief Qamar Javed Bajwa led a tri-service delegation to Quindío, the capital city of East China Shandong province for Military level talks on Sunday. The talks were completed between the Pakistani Army chief Bajwa and his accompanied tri-service top military officials and General Zhang Youxia, Vice Chairman of Central Military Commission during the visit from 9 to 12 June. This visit was part of the China-Pakistan Joint Military Cooperation Committee (PCJMCC). It is the Supreme committee of the highest military cooperation body and it has two sub-committees including…

UK’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson won a Confidence vote in Parliament on Monday. He has received 211 votes in favour and 148 votes in against out of 359 votes. He faced this confidence vote because of his own Tory party members in parliament. The vote results were announced by the chair of the conservative 1922 committee, and around more than 40% of its Tory party members voted against Prime Minister Johnson. After winning the confidence vote last night, Boris Johnson in today’s Morning Cabinet Meeting said that “we are able now to draw a line under the issues [Partygate] that…

Sri Lanka’s Justice Minister said on 5 June 2022 that the major 21st constitution amendment to the constitution in Srilanka politics will be submitted to the cabinet for approval on Monday. The 21st constitution amendment strengthens the authority of the parliament over the executive power of the President. Srilanka’s 21st constitution amendment The 21st constitution amendment will abolish the 20A of the Constitution which empowers the authority of the executive over the parliament. It was introduced by President Gotabaya Rajapaksha after securing the landslide victory in the 2020 general election, and after eradicating the 19th amendment of SriLanka’s constitution which…

In France, two persons were found guilty of arms trafficking and imprisoned on Friday and they could face up to 10 years in jail. French police arrested five persons on 31 May but 2 others out of four were remain free, they will keep under judicial supervision and the fifth member of the group was released from the charges. Prosecutor Edward Roux-Marizot in a presser on Friday said that “the suspects in the small group of  were age between 45 and 53 and had jobs, noting that they were “citizens like any other”. She also said persons were not planning an attack,…

Recently Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in his party meeting said that “we will clean up Tal Rifat and Manbij of terrorists” in northern Syria. Erdogan wants to create a 30 KM buffer zone along with the Turkish southern border to resettle around 1 million refugees out of 3.7 million refugees. However, Turkey in previous military incursions has occupied very large Lands of northern Syria including Afrin, Tel Abyad and Jarablus. Turkey says that the Syrian Kurdish fighters use Tel Rifaat as a base to attack areas held by Turkey-backed Syrian opposition fighters. Turkish President called the Syrian Kurdish fighters…

India’s External Affairs Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar is on 5 days visit to Europe. In the first leg of his visit to Slovakia EAM S. Jaishankar met with his counterpart Slovakian Foreign Minister Ivan Korcov, and discussed trade turnover, interest in political dialogue & mutual investments, and cooperation of democracies in the Indo-Pacific region. EAM Jaishankar also conveyed the greetings from Prime Minister Modi to Slovakian Prime Minister Eduard Heger for their support in Operation Ganga, when the indian citizens were stuck in the many Ukrainian cities during Russian invasion. Therfore, he also participated in the GLOBSEC 2022 Bratislava Forum.…

Turkish consumer price-based inflation rises up to 73.50 % on a year-on-year basis and 2.98 on MoM basis. It is the highest in 24 years and since 1998. The CPI based inflation in Hotels, Furnished and household equipment, food and beverages and transportation is higher than the CPI total percentage of inflation on a year-on-year  basis which is 76.83, 82.08, 91.63 and 107.62 percent respectively. Whereas inflation in communication, Education, clothing, footwear and health are the other main groups where the inflation increases on a year-on year basis are low, which is 19.81, 27.48, 29.80, 37.74 percent respectively The high…

Israeli defense minister Benny Gantz is on a visit to India today, as India and Israel completed 30 years of diplomatic relations this year.  Benny Gantz met with his counterpart Defence Minister Rajnath Singh. Israel Defence minister Benny Gantz Meet Rajnath Singh For Advanced Defense Cooperation In these defense ministers’ bilateral talks, A wide range of issues related to bilateral, regional, and defense industrial cooperation were discussed and both the Ministers reviewed the existing military cooperation which has increased despite the challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic. They also discussed ways to grow cooperation on Research & Development in advanced…

GST collection for May 2022 is 1.41 lakh crore, as per the latest data released by the finance Ministry on Wednesday.  The gross GST collection for the month of May is 44% higher than the same month of the last year 2021, which was the ₹97,821 crore. “GST collection in May declined 16 percent ” the revenues from the import of goods and revenues from domestic transactions are also 43% and 44% higher than the same month of last year respectively. However,  GST collection for the month of May decreased 16% from the record high collection in the last month…