2021-12-21T17:09:31+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: FP & IR|Tags: The Hindu|
Backgound:- The third India-Central Asia Dialogue convened by External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar on Sunday is one in a series of timely connections to the region by New Delhi this year, spurred in some measure by events in Afghanistan. The dialogue has been held a month before leaders of all [...]
2021-11-26T13:44:16+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: FP & IR|Tags: Business Line|
The United States may have just started another war that it cannot win. This time it is in the oil market, the foe is the powerful OPEC+ cartel and the prize is lower oil prices. […]
2021-10-06T15:31:35+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: FP & IR|Tags: The Hindu|
A realistic assessment of the circumstances in which it has to operate should have induced the Taliban regime in Afghanistan to follow a moderate course. Instead, it has sent out unmistakable signs of a preference for extremism. A peculiar state of mind is almost certainly in play, but to ascribe [...]
2021-08-05T09:57:50+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: FP & IR|Tags: Frontline|
Syllabus Connect :- GS III (Security challenges and their management in border areas; linkages of organized crime with terrorism) Context:- The withdrawal of United States troops from the Bagram military base, its biggest military base in Afghanistan, by stealth at night in early July without keeping the Afghan authorities in the [...]
2021-07-23T14:12:58+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: FP & IR|
The British organised a conference in Shimla in 1914, which the representatives of China and Tibet attended. The conference’s objective was to negotiate a treaty that would demarcate the border between Tibet and British-ruled India. The British plan was to put pressure on the weak Chinese central government to grant [...]
2021-07-17T13:05:37+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: FP & IR|
G-7 leaders finally came around with the proposed Build Back Better World (B3W) to counter China’s rising influence across 100-plus countries through Belt Road Initiative (BRI) projects. The proposal, though at a nascent stage, aims to address the infrastructure investment deficit in developing and lower income countries — the space [...]
2021-06-16T16:26:55+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: FP & IR|
In June 2020, PLA troops “surprised” India in the Ladakh sector of the contested LoAC (line of actual control) where the Indian Army lost 20 lives, including that of Colonel Santosh Babu in the Galwan valley. […]
2021-05-09T07:36:58+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: FP & IR|
On April 30, Super Galaxy, a huge US military plane, landed in Delhi, bringing oxygen cylinders, hospital equipment and Covid test kits. More flights with aid material are on the way to India. And, thereby hangs a tale. […]
2021-04-27T02:32:17+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: FP & IR|
President Joe Biden has announced that the United States will pull out all its troops from Afghanistan by 11 September. His predecessor Donald Trump had started the process in December 2018, committing to do the same by 1 May this year. […]
