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General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Jun 16, 2017
'Monumental U-turn' on cancer drug
A life-extending drug which has been deemed too expensive time and again will now be offered on the NHS in England. It is the result of a confidential deal between the health service and the drug…
Counter-Terrorism - Analyses & Assessments - Jun 16, 2017
The humanitarian crisis in Libya
The United Nations Migration Agency has expressed deep concern over the mistreatment of the Somali and Ethiopian refugees in Libya. The agency has confirmed the authenticity of a video that was…
World - Analyses & Assessments - Jun 16, 2017
US to discontinue aid to Pakistan?
The United States government has announced that it will be reviewing its financial support to Pakistan. US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said that the financial aid provided to Pakistan will be…
Counter-Terrorism - Analyses & Assessments - Jun 16, 2017
Armar Declared Global Terrorist
Mohammed Shafi Armar a top recruiter for the Islamic State in India has been named by the US as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT). In the last three years, Armar was in-charge of…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Jun 16, 2017
A Breakthrough That Could Mean Sustainability
With Hydrogen emerging as a viable energy option for our future, Researchers at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) have developed a solar paint that absorbs sunlight and water vapour that…
Geopolitics - Analyses & Assessments - Jun 15, 2017
France-Britain’s new anti-terror plan
With internet being used as one of the most potent tools by terror organizations like ISIS in the radicalization of individuals across the world, Britain and France have announced an anti-terror plan…
Geopolitics - Analyses & Assessments - Jun 15, 2017
AUSINDEX-17: An Alternative?
With the Malabar Exercises being held only North of the Australian continent, the Australian government is keen to participate and become a permanent member of the annual naval exercise.
The Malabar…
World - Analyses & Assessments - Jun 15, 2017
Trump under investigation for obstruction of justice
Reports have emerged that the President of United States, Donald Trump, is being investigated for obstruction of justice by special counsel investigating the Russia’s involvement in the US…
World - Analyses & Assessments - Jun 15, 2017
Hundred dead' bodies seen in Marawi
On 15 June 2017, a politician from Philippines said residents fleeing besieged Marawi City have seen at least 100 dead bodies, scattered around the encounter area. Zia Alonto, a local politician who…
Geopolitics - Analyses & Assessments - Jun 15, 2017
Realignment in West Asia
Talmiz Ahmad, the former Indian Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Oman and UAE was at Synergia Forum, on 10th June 2017 to discuss the current geopolitical narrative in West Asia. In his one to one…
World - Analyses & Assessments - Jun 15, 2017
US Fed hikes interest rates again
In a move that was widely expected, the Federal Reserve hiked the key interest rates by 0.25% for the second time this year thereby reflecting the central bank's confidence in the US economy. After a…
Disaster - Analyses & Assessments - Jun 15, 2017
London tragedy: a tryst with history
For keen followers of history, the tragic fire that engulfed Grenfell Tower resulting in the death of at least 12 people in London on 14th June, 2017, will remind the devastating‘Great London Fire’…
World - Analyses & Assessments - Jun 14, 2017
Trump bequeaths more power to Pentagon
United States President Donald Trump has given the Defense Secretary, Jim Mattis, the authority to set the troop levels in Afghanistan. This move will allow the US Pentagon to send in thousands of…
World - Analyses & Assessments - Jun 14, 2017
Steve Scalise shot in Virginia
On 14 June 2017, US House Majority Whip Steve Scalise was shot in the hip and multiple Congressional aides were hit by a gunman with a rifle, who opened fire at a GOP baseball practice in Virginia.…
Geopolitics - Analyses & Assessments - Jun 14, 2017
Sleeping with the enemy
On 13th June 2017, the US Senate narrowly averted a bid to block President Donald Trump’s $500 million sale of weapons to Saudi Arabia for carrying out attacks on Yemen.
The resolution to ban the…
World - Analyses & Assessments - Jun 14, 2017
Liberated at a greater price…
Otto Warmbier, the American student who had been detained by North Korea and then released on humanitarian grounds, has died. According to his family, he passed away on 19th June, 2017 at 2:20 pm (18…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Jun 14, 2017
New drug policy
Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently announced that the government will bring a new drug policy to mandate doctors to prescribe medicines with their generic names instead of brand names. Following…
Disaster - Analyses & Assessments - Jun 14, 2017
Massive fire engulfs Grenfell Tower
A huge fire consumed the 24-storey Grenfell Tower in Kensington, West London, resulting in the deaths of at least six and leaving more than twenty in critical condition. It took more than 200…
World - Analyses & Assessments - Jun 13, 2017
Trump’s Ban-Economy or Safety
As US President Donald Trump’s travel ban on the Islamic countries continues to be blocked by federal courts, the fate of the ban will likely be decided by the nation's Supreme Court soon.
Disaster - Analyses & Assessments - Jun 13, 2017
Dozens killed in Bangladesh landslides
A number of landslides triggered by heavy monsoons in Bangladesh have resulted in the deaths of more than 46 people in the country. Many of the victims are from tribal communities in the remote hill…