In ‘Issues in News’, we cover those issues, which are making headlines as of now, and consequently there is a possibility of these issues finding their way to the question papers, whether ‘Prelims’ or of ‘Mains’. The Objective here is to expose an aspirant to 15/20 different issues every month, so that by the end of the year, the aspirant covers nearly 200 (odd) issues, which can be raised in the form of questions.
On 6th December 2021, President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Narendra Modi convened in a summit meeting over the first 2+2 dialogue between Russia and India since the latter came to power. Defence Minister Rajnath [Read More]
On 6th August 2021, the Ministry of Defence published a press release entitled “Disengagement at PP 17A” after the twelfth round of talks held on 31st July 2021, between the Corps Commanders of India and [Read More]
The President of the United States, Joe Biden announced in April 2021 that the United States military forces would be withdrawing from Afghanistan by September 2021, after several rounds of negotiations and agreements. Reeling from [Read More]
Sri Lanka, an island nation located in the Indian Ocean, off the southeastern coast of India – has recently come to the news owing to the economic emergency declared by the Sri Lankan President Gotabaya [Read More]
On 6th July 2021, the United States coordinator for the Asia-Pacific region, Kurt Campbell announced at an online event hosted by the Asia Society that US President Joe Biden is planning to host a summit [Read More]
The physical, social, geo-economic and geopolitical characteristics of the Arctic have been encountering certain unparalleled transformations in contemporary times. These changes are likely to spill over into long-term consequences for the constellations of security in [Read More]
On June 19th, 2021, the hardliner judiciary chief Ebrahim Raisi won the Iranian presidential seat. In polls conducted amidst amid historically low voter turnout, his win has eased the path for Iran’s leadership to fortify [Read More]
In the previous part of “The Rise, Fall and the Resurgence of the Taliban” we had provided a short history of the Taliban in the region and analysed why the resurgence of the Taliban was [Read More]
The President of the United States of America, Joe Biden, announced that the remaining US troops would be withdrawn from Afghanistan by September 11th, 2021 – a historic date in US history. This is two [Read More]
The history of the international system is one of perpetual dynamism. For as long as international politics has been studied, it has been wrought with cross-cutting alliances, coalitions, estrangements and discord. Even before nation-states became [Read More]
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