Interpol’s ICSE initiative on child sex abuse, now joined by the CBI Subject: IR Context: Context: India’s Central Bureau of Investigation has joined the Interpol’s International Child Sexual Exploitation (ICSE) initiative that will allow it to collaborate with investigators in other countries for detecting child sex abuse online and identifying abusers, victims, and […]
Reading UN population report Subject: IR Context: Context:The World Population Prospects 2022 has projected that India will surpass China as the world’s most populous country in 2023, while the global population will reach 8 billion this year. What is the WPP? The Population Division of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairshas […]
Karakalpak Protests Reflect the Shattered Promise of Mirziyoyev’s ‘New Uzbekistan’ Subject: IR A proposal to downgrade the autonomous region to a province set off massive protests. Karakalpakstan, which constitutes approximately 40 percent of Uzbekistani territory, is an ethnically diverse region populated largely by ethnic minorities – Karakalpaks and Kazakhs In the Soviet period, […]
China’s Belt and Road Initiative Subject: IR Context: At the recently concluded summit of G7 leaders in Germany, United States President Joe Biden and his allies unveiled their $600-billion plan called the Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Intelligence (PGII) to build infrastructure projects in developing and middle-income countries. This is being seen as […]