Author: Sashreek Garg

In Pakistan, the National Assembly voted on Thursday to repeal the election reforms introduced by former Prime Minister Imran Khan, which gave foreigners access to electronic voting machines (EVMs) and I-Voting. 

In the wake of an unprecedented coronavirus outbreak, North Korean state media have remained quiet about a recent flurry of missile tests – perhaps to avoid overshadowing a nuclear test. On Wednesday, North Korea fired three missiles, including its largest intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), the HS-17, prompting live-fire exercises between the United States and South Korea and renewed calls for new U.N. sanctions. As part of preparations for its seventh nuclear test, South Korea’s deputy national security adviser, Kim Tae-Hyo, said the North also appeared to have conducted multiple experiments with a detonation device. Still, the test was unlikely to…

Amid worldwide attention on Ukraine, aid agencies and the UN are desperate to draw attention to a disaster they say could be compared to the 2011 Somali famine.

Leaders of the US, Japan, India and Australia unveil the Indo-Pacific maritime surveillance plan and pledge $50bn in infrastructure investment in a bid to counter China.  US, Japanese, Indian, and Australian leaders announced a maritime initiative to combat illegal fishing and a commitment to invest more than $50bn in infrastructure development to counter China’s growth in the region. “At the Tokyo summit” On Tuesday, the four men announced the pledges during the second in-person summit of their Indo-Pacific Quad grouping. The meeting of the informal alliance, which was created to counter China’s economic and military might, also discussed climate change,…

Rafael Nadal won his 299th Grand Slam match at Roland Garros on Monday (May 23). He defeated Australian Jordan Thompson 6-2, 6-2, 6-2. In the second round, he will face French wild card Corentin Moutet for a chance to join Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic in the 300-plus club. During his third-round tiebreaker loss to Denis Shapovalov in Rome just ten days ago, Rafael Nadal talked about a chronic foot injury that hindered his movement. Nevertheless, the Spaniard performed admirably on the Court Philippe Chatrier in a two-hour, two-minute victory. Despite reaching the third round at Roland Garros in 2019,…

2021, the tournament was postponed due to the Covid-19 outbreak but was back this year in a different venue, co-located with the (Women’s T20) IPL Playoffs. Women’s IPLs have been in demand for almost two years now, and demand gained traction after The Hundred’ Women’s edition was a massive success in England last year. However, all those demands have borne no fruit. So, the T20 challenge, a token tournament to showcase women’s representation in the richest cricket league in the world, has been the only outcome. Here are all the details about the Women’s T20 Challenge 2022: Who will…

On Sunday, CoinSwitch CEO, Ashish Singhal, said that “India must establish rules on cryptocurrencies to resolve regulatory uncertainty, protect investors, and boost its crypto sector”.  Although the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has backed a ban on cryptocurrencies due to its risk to financial stability, the New Delhi government has called the income tax policy of the federal government a sign of acceptance.  “Users don’t know what will happen with their holdings – is the government going to ban, not ban, how will it be regulated?” said Singhal, a former Amazon engineer who co-founded CoinSwitch.  CoinSwitch, valued at $1.9 billion,…

On Saturday, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said he had conceded defeat in a national election, “while vote counting was incomplete, the opposition Labour Party looked likely to form a government”. “Tonight, I have spoken to the Leader of the Opposition and the incoming Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, and I’ve congratulated him on his election victory this evening,” Morrison said while giving a speech in Sydney. Morrison also said that he would stand down as leader of the Liberal party. In 2018, Morrison became the Australian prime minister after several leadership changes, and this capitulation marks the end of eight…

A former Soviet scientist has claimed that Russia considered using monkey-pox as a bioweapon until at least the 1990s.  Kanat Alibekov, the Soviet Union’s bioweapons expert, made the claims Kant Alibekov, who was the Soviet Union’s bioweapons expert until its fall in 1991. Later, he moved to the United States. In 1998 the American Chemical and Biological Weapons Nonproliferation Project (CBWNP) interviewed Alibekov, who claimed that the Soviet country had a program to utilize bioweapons (monkey-pox as a bioweapon). “So, we developed a special program to determine what ‘model’ viruses could be used instead of human smallpox. We tested vaccinia…

“Qatar hopes to welcome the world to Doha for the FIFA World Cup. We expect and want people to respect our culture”, Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani said on Friday in Berlin when asked about the LGBTQIA+ community attending the tournament.   Hotels on the official list of recommended accommodations for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar must welcome all guests in a “non-discriminatory manner”, or their contract will be terminated, FIFA said earlier this month.   A Scandinavian media survey analysis showed that three of the sixty-nine hotels on FIFA’s official list of recommended accommodations would deny entry to same-sex…