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World - Analyses & Assessments - Nov 20, 2018
Refugees Choose Death over Return to Libya
Refugees and migrants refusing to leave a cargo boat in a Libyan port are pleading to be taken to Europe, saying they are prepared to die than be returned to detention in the North African country.…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Nov 19, 2018
India’s Polio Immunisation Crisis
The sole supplier of inactivated polio vaccines to India is likely to raise its price per dose in the coming years as a result of a global shortage of IPV. This leaves India’s polio-free status…
Geopolitics - Analyses & Assessments - Nov 19, 2018
France and Germany concur to new Eurozone budget
A French finance ministry has told that both France and Germany have agreed on and will lay out plans for a new budget for the eurozone ahead of a trip by Emmanuel Macron to Berlin on Sunday. The…
Geopolitics - Analyses & Assessments - Nov 19, 2018
US to reduce troops in Africa
The US army will withdraw hundreds of troops conducting counterterrorism operations across Africa over the next several years, the Pentagon has said. Currently, about 7,200 US military personnel are…
Geopolitics - Analyses & Assessments - Nov 19, 2018
Brexit Referendum 2.0?
Britain could be on course to reverse its biggest political decision in four decades by possibly holding a second referendum to overturn the 2016 decision to leave the union. However, Mrs. May, who…
Indian Politics - Analyses & Assessments - Nov 19, 2018
Government wants committees to oversee RBI
India’s government is seeking to form panels to monitor the functions of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), which could escalate tensions between the finance ministry and the bank. The Reserve Bank of…
Geopolitics - Analyses & Assessments - Nov 17, 2018
North Korea’s new tactical weapon
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has inspected a “newly developed high-tech tactical” weapon, state media said on Friday, without specifying what kind of weapon was tested. The relationship between…
World - Analyses & Assessments - Nov 17, 2018
Bangladesh scraps bid to repatriate 70000 Rohingyas
Mass protests among Rohingya minorities in Bangladesh halts efforts to send them back to Myanmar where they are treated in a deplorable manner. The Rohingya are a Muslim minority group in…
World - Analyses & Assessments - Nov 17, 2018
Johnson & Johnson wins controversial trial
A California jury has cleared US pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson (J&J) of liability in a case involving a woman who alleged that the company’s talc-based products contain asbestos and…
World - Analyses & Assessments - Nov 17, 2018
Israeli Government’s Inner Conflict
Israel's Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman has officially resigned and his party is leaving the coalition. Lieberman’s party, Yisrael Beiteinu, is no longer part of PM Netanyahu's governing…
World - Analyses & Assessments - Nov 17, 2018
Theresa May and Sheikh Hasina
Synergia Foundation organised a round-table discussion with Professor James Mayall, Emeritus Professor of International Relations at Cambridge University, who shared the stage with Krishnan…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Nov 17, 2018
Advertisers react to report on Facebook
Several top marketers were openly critical of the tech giant, after an investigation detailing how Facebook's top executives made the company's growth a priority while ignoring and hiding warning…
Geopolitics - Analyses & Assessments - Nov 17, 2018
Migrant Caravan Reaches US Border
Hundreds of migrants arrive at the southern US Border mere days after US President Donald Trump signed a new regulation that restricts the entry of asylum seekers to the United States. Tens of…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Nov 16, 2018
Sabarimala verdict: faith vs rights
The Supreme Court’s verdict comes just before the start of Vrischikam, the start of the Malayalam month that marks the beginning of the annual pilgrimage to Sabarimala Temple. SC will resume a public…
World - Analyses & Assessments - Nov 16, 2018
Millions of Brazilians Lose Healthcare
Cuba’s health ministry rejected Jair Bolsonaro’s comments against the 20,000 Cuban health professionals that serve in Brazil as 'contemptuous and threatening’. They will now be stopping the programme…
Geopolitics - Analyses & Assessments - Nov 16, 2018
U.K. Cabinet Backs May’s Brexit Plan
Prime Minister Theresa May of Britain faced down hard-line critics and won the support of a divided cabinet for a plan to quit the European Union, preserving her push to avert an economically…
Geopolitics - Analyses & Assessments - Nov 16, 2018
Russia, Singapore sign $1bn investment agreements
Russia’s sovereign wealth fund has signed agreements with companies from Singapore on investment projects in Russia totalling more than $1 billion. The contracts were sealed at the Russia-ASEAN…
Indian Economics - Op-Eds - Nov 16, 2018
IL&FS and the Indian Economy
The infrastructure lender IL&FS has raised concerns about the risk of loan defaults, causing a sharp drop in the benchmark Nifty index. As a major player in India’s non-banking financial sector,…
World - Analyses & Assessments - Nov 15, 2018
Oil prices drop
Oil prices have fallen sharply to levels not seen for almost a year as traders see a return of a glut in supplies at a time of falling demand. The price of oil refers to the spot price of a barrel of…
Geopolitics - Analyses & Assessments - Nov 15, 2018
Houthis, Saudi-led coalition agree to informal truce
An informal agreement to reduce hostilities between Saudi-led coalition forces and rebels in and around Yemen’s Red Sea port city of Hodeida has taken hold. Yemen, one of the world’s poorest…