Italian voters reject judicial reform in a setback for Premier Giorgia MeloniTurnout over the two-day ballot, which began Sunday, was considerably higher than expected at almost 59% following a polarizing campaign. I...
24 Mar, 2026, 01.04 AM IST
Iran vs US, Israel conflict: Major Saudi refinery, Iraqi Kurdish and Israeli oil, gas fields shut amid Mideast strikesSaudi Arabia's largest oil refinery, Ras Tanura, has shut down following a drone strike. This incident is part of a wider wave of attacks a...
03 Mar, 2026, 05.41 PM IST
Saudi Arabia raises military readiness after Iranian strikes on Gulf statesSaudi Arabia's military is on high alert following drone attacks by Iran. The Ras Tanura oil refinery faced a partial shutdown after a stri...
02 Mar, 2026, 07.40 PM IST
India chases 'DeepSeek moment' with homegrown AI modelsFledgling Indian artificial intelligence companies showcased homegrown technologies this week at a major summit in New Delhi, underpinning ...
20 Feb, 2026, 09.00 AM IST
Rich world’s growing civil unrest comes with an insurance stingStrikes, riots, and civil commotion (SRCC) insurance risks have surged, with losses escalating from negligible to over $8 billion between 2...
16 Feb, 2026, 01.19 PM IST
Most emerging nations like India can realign trade to weather US tariffs: ReportAs large economies like China, Brazil, and India adapt to the pressures of US tariffs, a recent study indicates that the impact of Presiden...
13 Nov, 2025, 08.08 AM IST
War, money, oil and the shaping of Aramco's giant share saleA large chunk of this month's $11.2 billion share sale was allocated to foreign investors, leading one person involved in the process to de...
17 Jun, 2024, 07.43 AM IST
Investors pull record sums from Saudi in Middle East fund flightThe iShares MSCI Saudi Arabia ETF saw record net outflows in October of more than $200 million, LSEG data shows, cutting 20% from what it h...
13 Nov, 2023, 05.45 AM IST
Ukrainian President Zelenskyy joins Arab Summit in Saudi Arabia amidst presence of Moscow-aligned leadersUkraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived in Saudi Arabia ahead of an Arab summit on Friday, where he was set to address leaders who ...
19 May, 2023, 05.56 PM IST
Inflation protests across Europe threaten political turmoilAcross Europe, soaring inflation is behind a wave of protests and strikes that underscores growing discontent with the spiraling cost of li...
22 Oct, 2022, 01.18 PM IST
99 of 100 cities most at risk environmentally in AsiaAcross the globe, more than 400 large cities with a total population of 1.5 billion are at "high" or "extreme" risk due to some mixture of ...
13 May, 2021, 03.40 PM IST
Who are Al-Shabab militants terrorising northern MozambiqueToday the militants are in control of Palma, a town just 10 kilometres (six miles) from the nerve centre of the mega gas project that repre...
29 Mar, 2021, 03.29 PM IST
COVID controls turn Asia into global surveillance hotspot, analysts sayAmong the worst-scoring Asian nations in the Verisk Maplecroft index were Pakistan, China, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, India and the Phili...
01 Oct, 2020, 08.35 AM IST
Political turmoil to be ‘new normal’ for 2020, risk firm saysPM Modi now faces the most significant challenge to his rule since being first elected in 2014.
17 Jan, 2020, 06.12 AM IST
Donald Trump's $250 billion China "miracle" adds gloss to off-kilter tradeTrump has ratcheted up his criticism of China's massive trade surplus with the United States - $34.6 billion in September - calling it "emb...
10 Nov, 2017, 12.26 AM IST
India is riskier for business than Bangladesh, according to this indexIndia ranks 4 in Verisk Maplecroft's list of countries losing out on business opportunities due to civil unrest, after Syria, Yemen and Lib...
06 Aug, 2016, 05.02 PM IST
The 12 most corrupt countries in the world"Corruption risks are particularly prevalent in developing economies," Trevor Slack, legal and regulatory analyst at Verisk Maplecroft, wro...
18 Jun, 2015, 01.23 PM IST