In News Pakistan will continue to be on the ”Grey List” of the FATF as it needs to “further demonstrate” that action is being taken against UN-designated terrorists. About The FATF also announced the ‘greylisting’ of Jordan, Mali and Turkey, following the conclusion of the Plenary session. FATF observed that Pakistan needed to further demonstrate […]
In News Recently, India was re-elected to the U.N. Human Rights Council for the 6th term with an overwhelming majority in the General Assembly. About The 76th UN General Assembly held elections for 18 new members of the U.N. Human Rights Council who will serve for a period of three years, starting in January 2022. […]
In News Recently, an extraordinary meeting of G20 leaders on Afghanistan was held under Italy’s Presidency of the G20. About G20 held the first Afghan meeting after the Taliban takeover. The summit was convened by Italy and was chaired by Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi. The US President, Indian Prime Minister and many European leaders […]
In News Recently, the Quad Leaders Summit was hosted by the United States of America(USA). Major Points of Summit Towards Afghanistan and Terrorism: Quad nations announced to closely coordinate diplomatic, economic, and human-rights policies towards Afghanistan and deepen their counter-terrorism and humanitarian cooperation in accordance with United Nations Security Council 2593 (a resolution passed on […]
In News The Prime Minister participated virtually in the 21st Meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO). He also gave a video message in the Joint SCO-CSTO Outreach Session on Afghanistan. Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) SCO is a permanent intergovernmental international organisation of Eurasian Nations with a secretariat […]
In context Recently, the Minister of State for Power attended the 15th East Asia Summit of Energy Ministers that was held virtually. About The Theme of the meeting was “We Care, We Prepare, We Prosper”. The meeting was aimed at coordinating efforts of ASEAN countries in pursuing the goal of energy security and energy transition. […]
In News A Russia-led security bloc (CSTO) is planning to hold large military drills in Tajikistan. Rationale for military exercise in Tajikistan Tajikistan is the only country out of the six-member bloc led by Russia that shares a border with Afghanistan. The series of drills will include the largest exercise this year among CSTO nations. […]
In News Recently, the World Bank released a Groundswell report. Major Findings of the report Migration: Sub-Saharan Africa will have the largest number of internal climate refugees by 2050. By 2050, Sub-Saharan Africa could see as many as 86 million internal climate migrants East Asia and the Pacific, 49 million South Asia, 40 million North […]
In News The Indian PM will visit Washington for the Quad Summit and New York for UNGA. China has slammed the QUAD grouping. Recent Viewpoints of External Affairs minister about QUAD Broad and Substantive Agenda: As against the Chinese remark of QUAD being an “Exclusive Cliques” targeting other countries, QUAD has several cooperation agendas. The […]
In News Recently, India chaired the 5th meeting of BRICS Industry Ministers. The theme of BRICS@15: Intra BRICS Cooperation for Continuity, Consolidation and Consensus for its Chairship, this year. More in news The Union Minister of Commerce and Industry called for the New Development Bank (NDB) to expand its horizons to fund service delivery in […]