scorecardresearch
Thursday, May 2, 2024
HomeGlobal Pulse

Global Pulse

Global Pulse: Chinese investment in Pakistan might depend on the country’s security issues

Vandana Menon -
Pakistan is clamping down on domestic terrorism, with civilian deaths from extremist attacks dropping from over 3,000 in 2013 to 540 last year.
Read more

Global Pulse: Australia hopes its new deputy prime minister can stabilise its weak coalition

Vandana Menon -
Malcolm Turnbull, Australia's prime minister, can breathe a sigh of relief now that his coalition has a new deputy prime minister.
Read more

Global Pulse: Xi Jinping is now allowed to be in power forever

Vandana Menon -
The Chinese Communist Party has removed a limit on the number of presidential terms, essentially making Xi Jinping president for life.
Read more

Global Pulse: The Venezuelan exodus is now Latin America’s worst refugee crisis

Vandana Menon -
The human outflow from Venezuela is now more than 1.1 million people — which makes it the largest displacement of people in Latin America.
Read more

Global Pulse: The investigations on Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu are heating up

Vandana Menon -
Last week, the Israeli police recommended that Netanyahu be indicted for bribery, fraud and breach of trust in two corruption investigations.
Read more

Global Pulse: The UN has called for an end to “hell on Earth” in Syria’s Eastern Ghouta

Vandana Menon -
António Guterres, the United Nations secretary general, called Ghouta a “hell on Earth.”
Read more

Global Pulse: Germany’s hate speech law isn’t fixing the problem of online hate

Vandana Menon -
In other news, China’s latest family-planning policies are a major violation of women’s rights.
Read more

Global Pulse: Italy is witnessing the resurrection of Silvio Berlusconi in its search for stability

Vandana Menon -
In the run up to the upcoming Italian elections, Silvio Berlusconi has somehow become a reliable "candidate of calm."
Read more

Global Pulse: Turkish officials have begun describing the country’s military deployment in Syria as “jihad”

Vandana Menon -
Turkey seems to be slowly moving along the path of mainstreaming jihad, a step towards enacting full sharia law.
Read more

Global Pulse: Ethiopia’s prime minister has resigned, with no clear successor in sight

Vandana Menon -
Hailemariam Desalegn's shock resignation has opened up a succession struggle within the coalition that has governed Ethiopia since 1991.
Read more
1...434445...64Page 44 of 64

On Camera

YourTurn

Opinion

Economy

How govt brought Vodafone Idea back from the brink & earned a neat profit in the process

Yuthika Bhargava -
In 2021, the government allowed telcos to convert interest on deferred spectrum payments and AGR dues into equity. This made it the single largest stakeholder in Vodafone Idea.

Defence

Complex network of India’s existing air defence capabilities & the way forward

Smruti Deshpande -
Provocations among Israel & Iran have prompted discussion on the need for India to broaden its air defence apparatus, given tensions with adversarial neighbours.

National Interest

Frontrunner is letting the challenger define this poll campaign. Modi still hasn’t found a big theme

Shekhar Gupta -
A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.

Follow us

Copyright © 2024 Printline Media Pvt. Ltd. All rights reserved.