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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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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’…
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 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…