Nord Stream Pipeline Subject – IR Context – The Nord Stream pipeline is back in the news following the renewed tensions between the West and Russia over Ukraine Concept – Owned by the Russian energy giant, Gazprom, Nord Stream the longest subsea pipeline, is an export gas pipeline which runs under the Baltic […]
India – Oman ties Subject – IR Context – India is laying out the red carpet for Oman’s top defence official Mohammed Nasser Al Zaabi, who will be in India from January 30 to February 4 on an official visit. Concept – Why is Oman important from a defence and strategic point of […]
Russia-Ukraine conflict Subject – IR Context – Russia has mobilised some 1,00,000 troops on its border with Ukraine. Russia says the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s eastward expansion (which the alliance calls “enlargement”) threatens its interests and has sought written security guarantees from the West. Concept – What are Russia’s demands? Russian President Vladimir […]
Protocol on Visits to Religious Shrines 1974 Subject – IR Context – India is “positive” and “willing to engage” in talks with Pakistan on upgrading the 1974 joint protocol on religious pilgrimages to allow air travel and increase the number of shrines that pilgrims from both countries could visit Concept – The Protocol […]
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 […]