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World - Analyses & Assessments - Jun 21, 2017
Terror thwarted
A man entered the central train station in Brussels, Belgium and detonated a bomb setting off a small explosion. But a little bit of luck, as well as the quick response from the law enforcement,…
Technology - Analyses & Assessments - Jun 21, 2017
E-Estonia
Estonia has set up the first ‘data embassy’ at Luxembourg using online infrastructure. In the country’s efforts to keep data safe, it becomes the first country to digitize a double secure method for…
Cyber Security - Analyses & Assessments - Jun 20, 2017
Cyber Security: A Board Dilemma
Tobby Simon, the president of Synergia Foundation has written a report on ‘ CyberSecurity- A Board Dilemma’. In his report, he has brought out aspects that members of the board needs to understand…
World - Analyses & Assessments - Jun 20, 2017
Refugees - a country’s population
The UN Refugee Agency reveals that there are 65.6 million refugees towards the end of 2016, an increase of 30,000 from 65.3 million in 2015. On June 20th, as the world observes ‘World Refugee Day,’ a…
World - Analyses & Assessments - Jun 20, 2017
Barclays charged with fraud
UK’s Serious Fraud Office has charged Barclays along with four of its former executives with fraud over its actions during the 2008 financial crisis. This would be the first time a criminal charge…
Geopolitics - Analyses & Assessments - Jun 20, 2017
As divorce talks begin…
The official Brexit talks began on Monday 19th 2017, between Brexit Secretary David Davis and European Union (EU) negotiator Michel Barnier. Critical steps are being drawn towards the shared…
Indian Politics - Analyses & Assessments - Jun 20, 2017
Presidential games
The ruling coalition heading the government of India, National Democratic Alliance (NDA) has formally announced that its candidate for the upcoming Presidential election will be Bihar Governor Ram…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Jun 20, 2017
The death of cash
A number of governments, central banks and even some economists now advocate a switch to all-digital currencies. With the rapid rise of mobile payments, the long-term survival of cash seems…
World - Analyses & Assessments - Jun 20, 2017
The lost world
On 19th June 2017, the government of Central African Republic (CAR) signed a peace agreement in Rome with 13 of the 14 armed groups that exist in the region to end the ongoing violent conflict. The…
World - Analyses & Assessments - Jun 19, 2017
Macron wins big in French elections
In what is likely to give the French President Emmanuel Macron unprecedented mandate for his policies, his party La République en Marche, has swept the parliamentary elections. The party along with…
Counter-Terrorism - Analyses & Assessments - Jun 19, 2017
Countering online radicalisation
Tech giant Google, which has been under pressure to ‘eliminate’ extremist content from its domain, has outlined 4 main steps it will be using to identify and remove terrorist or violent content from…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Jun 19, 2017
What’s the beef?
A female Hindu ascetic has been thrust into the national spotlight in India after she beseeched the government to start executing people for eating beef in the country. Sadhvi (the title given to…
Counter-Terrorism - Analyses & Assessments - Jun 19, 2017
No human can be spared…
A van driven by a 48-year-old man has killed one man and injured ten others near the Finsbury Park Mosque, in North London after 12:00 am BST, on 19th June, 2017. The man has been arrested by the…
Disaster - Analyses & Assessments - Jun 19, 2017
Nature - the ignition point
On June 17, a massive forest fire in central Portugal killed 60 people and left several injured. The Portuguese government has declared three days of national mourning in wake of the incident to…
Counter-Terrorism - Analyses & Assessments - Jun 19, 2017
The Syrian conflict worsens
The ongoing crisis in Syria has dramatically escalated with Iran launching ballistic missile strikes against the ISIS targets in the region. Iran’s Iran Revolutionary Guards fired several missiles at…
War - Analyses & Assessments - Jun 19, 2017
Saudi’s deadly strike to Yemen
On 17th June 2017, a Saudi-led coalition air strike in Yemen in the Northern Saada province led to the deaths of at least 25 people. This attack is the latest in a string of deadly incidents in the…
Counter-Terrorism - Analyses & Assessments - Jun 17, 2017
1993 Mumbai blasts verdict
On 16 June 2017, terrorists Abu Salem and Mustafa Dossa, the key accused in the 1993 Mumbai blasts case that killed 257 people and left 713 seriously injured, were both convicted. Salem has been…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Jun 17, 2017
Bridging the gender gap, boosting the GDP
The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), the engineering and technology-oriented institutes of higher education in India, are now planning to partake in bringing down the ‘gender gap’ in the…
Counter-Terrorism - Analyses & Assessments - Jun 17, 2017
Catching a ghost
The Russian defence ministry recently announced that one of the top leaders of the Islamic State militant group (IS), Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, may have been killed in Raqqa, Iraq, during one of the air…
Indian Politics - Analyses & Assessments - Jun 17, 2017
Enforcing Bengali-a strategic blunder
As protests for a separate state called Gorkhaland continue to take place in Darjeeling, more violence broke out on June 17, with clashes between protestors and the police forces. This came on the…