Global hunger at new high, 2025 outlook bleak: UN-backed reportIt was the sixth consecutive annual increase in the number of people hit with "high levels" of acute food insecurity, according to the Glob...
17 May, 2025, 12.04 AM IST
World's most dangerous countries in 2024In 2024, severe conflicts and instability continue to plague several regions, marking Yemen, Sudan, South Sudan, Afghanistan, and Ukraine a...
26 Aug, 2024, 11.11 AM IST
Putin is shipping grain to Africa. The largesse comes with a priceRussia's aid to Africa, including free grain and military support, is part of a strategy to strengthen ties and gain support for its ambiti...
23 Feb, 2024, 12.04 PM IST
UK braces for hottest day yet amid ongoing heatwave and thunderstorm warningsUK is experiencing extremely hot weather this September and according to the weather forecast the country is yet to see the hottest day of ...
09 Sep, 2023, 11.16 PM IST
10 things you need to know about Radha Iyengar Plumb, Biden's Indian-American nominee for top Pentagon postCurrently serving as the Chief of Staff to the Deputy Secretary of Defense, Plumb was nominated for the top Pentagon position on Wednesday....
16 Jun, 2022, 12.09 PM IST
World worse now due to COVID, climate, conflict: U.N. secretary-general, Antonio GuterresGuterres said the U.N. Security Council, which does have the power to uphold international peace and security including by imposing sanctio...
21 Jan, 2022, 01.31 PM IST
As France plans to shrink Sahel force, jihadi threat growsFrance is preparing to reduce its military presence here in West Africa's Sahel region, the vast area south of the Sahara Desert where extr...
08 Jul, 2021, 04.27 PM IST
Mali's president and PM remain detained by mutinous soldiersThe African Union, the United Nations, the West African regional bloc known as ECOWAS and other members of the international community call...
25 May, 2021, 04.02 PM IST
Explained: Why Mali is in turmoil againThe latest events threaten to exacerbate instability in the West African country where violent Islamist groups linked to al Qaeda and Islam...
25 May, 2021, 03.54 PM IST
Mali's president and PM arrested by mutinous soldiers"The international community rejects in advance any act of coercion, including forced resignations," the statement said. "They emphasize th...
25 May, 2021, 09.38 AM IST
Explained: Chad's strategic interest to France, Western alliesChad's longtime ruler President Idriss Deby's death, which Paris described as the loss of a courageous friend who had sought peace and stab...
21 Apr, 2021, 02.45 PM IST
Highest UN peacekeeper deaths in last 70 years from IndiaAccording to the UN, of the 3,737 peacekeepers who have died since 1948, 163 have been from India, the highest total from any troop contrib...
30 May, 2018, 11.57 AM IST
Cancel projects given to Chinese companies, demand local power firmsThe IEEMA last month wrote to the power ministry that China had reportedly mounted almost daily attacks on both government and private comp...
07 Oct, 2014, 06.21 AM IST
WEF founder calls Iran and Syria ‘Black Swans’ as Euro crisis fades'Black-swan' describes extreme outcomes such as 2008 financial crisis that were previously considered very unlikely to happen.
23 Jan, 2013, 01.16 PM IST
- Mali coup dashes Indian business man Sandeep Garg's mining hopes
A coup in distant Mali has Sandeep Garg, 44, a Gurgaon resident, fretting.As the mine owner of 1 BT-plus of iron ore in that country, he ha...
11 Apr, 2012, 03.21 AM IST
- India 16th most risky place to invest
It also points at India's lack of social resilience despite a robust economic growth and cites its poor human rights record.
27 Mar, 2011, 07.20 AM IST
- India 16th most risky place to invest
UK-based Global Risks Atlas 2011 described India as 16th riskiest country to invest. Denmark, Sweden, Finland & Norway emerged as among the...
26 Mar, 2011, 05.59 PM IST