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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…
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…
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 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…
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 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…