International Holocaust Remembrance Day Subject – IR Context – Marked by the United Nations each year on the 27th of January, International Holocaust Remembrance Day provides an opportunity to recount the atrocities of the Holocaust that resulted in the death of an estimated 6 million Jews. Concept – International Holocaust Remembrance Day or […]

    Burkina Faso Subject – IR Context – Coup in Burkina Faso Concept – Country Location Capital Burkina Faso A landlocked country in West Africa. Ouagadougou Bordering Nations Features Mali to the northwest, Niger to the northeast, Benin to the southeast, Togo and Ghana to the south, Ivory Coast to the southwest. The largest […]

    Chakma-Hajong Subject – IR Context – NHRC has done the right thing in directing the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Arunachal Pradesh government to submit an action taken report against the racial profiling and relocation of the Chakma and Hajong communities in the north-eastern State Concept – To know about Chakma-Hajong, please […]

    North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Subject – IR Context – Ukraine crisis: West braces for Russian aggression; NATO sends jets, warships Concept – It is an intergovernmental military alliance. Established by Washington treaty that was signed on 4 April 1949. Headquarters — Brussels, Belgium. Headquarters of Allied Command Operations — Mons, Belgium. Significance: […]

    Myanmar Mizoram Border Subject – IR Context – Escaping junta, more Myanmar refugees cross over into Mizoram Concept –

    Houthis and the war in Yemen Subject – IR Context – A suspected drone attack on Monday in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), caused multiple explosions in which three people were killed — two Indians and one Pakistani. The Shia Houthi rebels of Yemen, who have been controlling […]

    New Capital of Indonesia Subject – IR Context – Rising sea levels prompt Indonesia to relocate capital Concept – Indonesia passed a bill replacing its capital Jakarta with East Kalimantan, situated to the east of Borneo Island. The new capital city of the country will be called Nusantara. Nusantara is an old Javanese term that means ‘archipelago’. Jakarta has […]

    Holy See Subject – IR Context – On October 30 last year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Pope Francis at the Vatican Concept – The Pope is not a “head of state” in the conventional sense nor does the UN recognise him as one. Under the Lateran Treaty, a purely bilateral one entered […]