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  • COVID-19: WHO revises its vaccine advisory — All You Need to Know March 29, 2023 11:58 AM IST

    COVID-19: WHO revises its vaccine advisory — All You Need to Know

    The WHO in its latest Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization (SAGE) has revised the roadmap for prioritising use of COVID-19 vaccines. Here’s all you need to know

  • Who is Humza Yousaf, Scottish National Party's newly elected leader? March 28, 2023 10:44 AM IST

    Who is Humza Yousaf, Scottish National Party's newly elected leader?

    Humza Yousaf also happens to be the first ethnic minority candidate to win a constituency seat in the Scottish Parliament.

  • Israel Unrest: Benjamin Netanyahu, synonymous with crisis, faces yet another March 28, 2023 10:26 AM IST

    Israel Unrest: Benjamin Netanyahu, synonymous with crisis, faces yet another

    Netanyahu revived his political career through an alliance with far-right groups. His acceding to their drastic demands like the overhaul of the country’s judiciary has ended up exposing the deep fault lines behind Israel’s chronic political instability

  • Deutsche Bank shares plummet amid concerns over global financial system March 26, 2023 08:06 AM IST

    Deutsche Bank shares plummet amid concerns over global financial system

    Deutsche Bank's woes come in the context of investors searching for vulnerable institutions after the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank earlier this month

  • Xi’s Moscow Visit: A weakened Russia in China’s orbit narrows India’s geopolitical options in Asia March 24, 2023 08:13 AM IST

    Xi’s Moscow Visit: A weakened Russia in China’s orbit narrows India’s geopolitical options in Asia

    Chinese president Xi Jinping’s visit to Moscow sent a message to the West that China will not abandon Russia and will, in fact, take the friendship to the next level. China turning Russia into its junior partner is bad news for India, which has depended long on the latter for military and diplomatic support

  • Argentina's inflation problem stumped ChatGPT March 23, 2023 09:38 AM IST

    Argentina's inflation problem stumped ChatGPT

    ChatGPT-4’s answers to the how-do-we-fix-Argentina's-inflation question seemed no better than those of the many humans who have given it a shot and failed

  • Can Exxon and Chevron master oil trading? It won’t be easy March 22, 2023 05:23 PM IST

    Can Exxon and Chevron master oil trading? It won’t be easy

    US oil companies are envious of how much money their European peers are making from trading oil and gas. But do they have the stomach for it?

  • IPCC’s final warning; time to act on climate is now March 22, 2023 01:07 PM IST

    IPCC’s final warning; time to act on climate is now

    At COP28, nations must come prepared as IPCC makes clear, to peak emissions before 2025 at the very latest, nearly halve emissions by 2030 and reach net-zero CO2 emissions around mid-century, while also ensuring a just and equitable transition. That is the only way the world can deliver on IPCC's agenda

  • Twenty Years of the US Invasion of Iraq: How America snatched defeat from victory  March 21, 2023 11:48 AM IST

    Twenty Years of the US Invasion of Iraq: How America snatched defeat from victory 

    Within days of winning the war, the US made many strategic mistakes. Disbanding the Iraqi armed forces instead of re-hiring the vanquished professional soldiers to keep the peace and dismissing thousands of government employees who could have served in the new administration were cardinal errors

  • A neurotic warmonger and a master strategist meet in Moscow March 21, 2023 11:12 AM IST

    A neurotic warmonger and a master strategist meet in Moscow

    Chinese president Xi Jinping will seek to cement Russia's position as a junior partner during his visit. Vladimir Putin has done enough damage to ensure that Russia has become excessively dependent on China

  • Russia-Ukraine War: 20 years since the Iraq War, the steady crisis of civilisation March 19, 2023 08:18 PM IST

    Russia-Ukraine War: 20 years since the Iraq War, the steady crisis of civilisation

    Rebuilding Ukraine could cost more than $1 trillion, an epic human tragedy. The world has likely forgotten that other catastrophe which began on March 19, exactly two decades ago.

  • Does same-sex marriage 'rock societal values'? March 16, 2023 10:02 AM IST

    Does same-sex marriage 'rock societal values'?

    More than 30 countries have legalised same-sex marriages. Democracies around the world have gone to lengths to accommodate practices of their various constituents and sub-nationalities that make up their countries, even if they earlier had unitary or uniform practices

  • A Thaw In The Desert: What Iran-Saudi Arabia détente means for the region? March 17, 2023 08:00 AM IST

    A Thaw In The Desert: What Iran-Saudi Arabia détente means for the region?

    Iran and Saudi Arabia decided to mend fences and start a new chapter of rapprochement in the Middle East. If this détente was seminal, even more influential was that it was brokered by an unlikely geopolitical hegemon, China, long viewed by many as a pugnacious adversary in other parts of the world

  • Imran Khan tells party to continue struggle even if he is killed or jailed as scuffle breaks out between police, his supporters March 14, 2023 09:53 PM IST

    Imran Khan tells party to continue struggle even if he is killed or jailed as scuffle breaks out between police, his supporters

    Khan's video message was released by his party on social media as police arrived at his Zaman Park residence to arrest him.

  • Long-dated oil prices are too low for comfort March 13, 2023 05:39 PM IST

    Long-dated oil prices are too low for comfort

    The futures market is mispricing the outlook for crude

  • Saudi-Iran pact: China takes a bow as mediator but the Riyadh-Tehran rivalry will persist March 13, 2023 01:59 PM IST

    Saudi-Iran pact: China takes a bow as mediator but the Riyadh-Tehran rivalry will persist

    Irrespective of how the restoration of diplomatic relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran plays out amid their intense rivalry in West Asia, China’s role in mediating the secret talks lifts its international standing several notches higher

  • Oscars 2023 Highlights: Everything Everywhere All At Once sweeps off 7 wins, takes Best Picture, Best Director & Best Actress crowns March 13, 2023 12:55 PM IST

    Oscars 2023 Highlights: Everything Everywhere All At Once sweeps off 7 wins, takes Best Picture, Best Director & Best Actress crowns

    The 95th Academy Awards Highlights: Host Jimmy Kimmel returns to the Oscar Awards for the third time. Michelle Yeoh makes history; Naatu Naatu wins Best Original Song and performance lit up the stage at the 95th Academy Awards, live from the Dolby theatre in Los Angeles.

  • India mulling to discuss mechanism with Australia under FTA for smooth supply of critical minerals March 12, 2023 12:19 PM IST

    India mulling to discuss mechanism with Australia under FTA for smooth supply of critical minerals

    The economic importance of these minerals and the risks in their stable supply make them important strategically also.

  • Syrian state media: Israel fires missiles at western city March 12, 2023 11:39 AM IST

    Syrian state media: Israel fires missiles at western city

    No deaths were reported. Photos from SANA show that the missiles may have landed on farmland.

  • 3 lessons from Silicon Valley Bank’s failure March 12, 2023 09:58 AM IST

    3 lessons from Silicon Valley Bank’s failure

    Here’s one takeaway: The bank’s extremely online clientele may have contributed to its downfall.

  • Silicon Valley Bank collapse sets off blame game in tech industry March 12, 2023 08:52 AM IST

    Silicon Valley Bank collapse sets off blame game in tech industry

    The implosion of the Silicon Valley bank led to finger-pointing, as executives and investors jumped on the crisis for their own messaging.

  • Front line shifts in Russia’s and Ukraine’s battle for Bakhmut, analysts say March 12, 2023 08:38 AM IST

    Front line shifts in Russia’s and Ukraine’s battle for Bakhmut, analysts say

    Britain’s defense intelligence agency said that Russian forces had taken control of most of Bakhmut’s east, but advances farther west might be challenging.

  • US commerce secretary meets PM Modi March 11, 2023 03:14 PM IST

    US commerce secretary meets PM Modi

    Raimondo, who was on a four-day visit to India, also met several ministers on her India visit.

  • India, Australia agree for early conclusion of talks to expand trade pact; eye USD 100-billion trade in 5 years March 11, 2023 02:41 PM IST

    India, Australia agree for early conclusion of talks to expand trade pact; eye USD 100-billion trade in 5 years

    On December 29, last year India and Australia implemented an economic cooperation and trade agreement (ECTA) and are now negotiating to expand its scope for a comprehensive economic cooperation agreement (CECA).

  • Indian-origin Sikh leader arrested for plotting to burn down prominent Gurdwara in California March 11, 2023 02:36 PM IST

    Indian-origin Sikh leader arrested for plotting to burn down prominent Gurdwara in California

    Rajvir Raj Singh Gill, a former Bakersfield City Council candidate was arrested in connection with six counts of criminal threats after officers executed a search warrant at his residence, the report said.