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Friday, December 12, 2025
TopicBiological warfare

Topic: biological warfare

Jaishankar warns of misuse of biological weapons by ‘non-state actors’, urges global cooperation

At conference on 50 years of Biological Weapons Convention (BWC), External Affairs Minister underlines gaps in mechanisms and emphasised India’s commitment to global biosecurity.

Unintended victims of Covid — India’s foreign policy and an MEA unable to do its real job

India urgently needed to reach out to world capitals and engage with nations that were looking for an alternative to China. But the pandemic kept MEA occupied.

WHO has given China labs clean chit for Covid. But don’t forget PLA’s bio ambitions

Over one year after the outbreak in Wuhan, and with an authoritarian Xi Jinping regime, no genuine probe on the coronavirus spread is possible in China.

Is Covid-19 a Chinese weapon or an accident? Either way, world must stop playing in bio labs

China's secrecy, ambitions, and disregard for life or environment are a problem. But so are the weapons-producing labs in US, Russia, France, Japan, North Korea and others.

On Camera

Congress wasted a chance to turn the tables on BJP over Vande Mataram. It chose appeasement

Seven decades after Independence, the “Hindu Congress” is accusing the BJP on the same lines as the Muslim League had done.

NITI Aayog flags what India needs for its ‘$30 tn by 2047’ goal—‘a developed corporate bond market’

Report looks at imbalance between equity & corporate bond markets amid India’s growth ambitions and diverse capital needs, while outlining strategy to unlock full potential.

US clears $686-mn package to breathe fresh life into Pakistani F-16s

Of the total package, $649 million will be utilised for additional hardware, software, and support services, and the remaining for Major Defence Equipment (MDE).

Asim Munir & Pakistan’s Failed Marshal Doctrine

None of Pakistan’s PMs has lasted 5 years. That the current PM has given Asim Munir 5 years shows that of all military dictatorships history has seen, Pakistan’s is most creative.