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TopicConflict zone

Topic: conflict zone

SubscriberWrites: Community journalism in India’s conflict zones

Reports from conflict zones prompt court actions, while grassroots coverage fuels social movements and legitimizes protests.

Global defence spending rose to $2.46 trillion in 2024 amid security challenges, shows IISS report

Data published by International Institute of Strategic Studies shows US, China and Russia were the top 3 countries with the largest defence budgets.

1.1 billion people experience multidimensional poverty, half in conflict zones, says UNDP report

A joint report by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) reveals that poverty reduction tends to be slowest in countries most affected by conflict.

Theatre is therapy—When MK Raina put on a play with Muslim and Kashmiri Pandit children

When Raina put up his first show after months of secret workshops, people from nearby districts crowded buses to watch it. That was his sign to keep going.

Israel exporting not just weapons but idea that you can get away with war — Antony Loewenstein at JLF

The investigative journalist, a historian, a war correspondent & a career diplomat presented the many sides to war, in discussion moderated by Praveen Swami, Consulting Editor, ThePrint.

How an Apple Mac from Dhaka changed militant group ULFA’s ‘publicity wing’

As a journalist reporting from a conflict zone, I am always intrigued by the publicity wing of the militant outfits.

Indian-made doll taking care of pregnant women in remote Afghanistan

The MIRA-AFIA doll provides care to pregnant women who don’t have access to it; it monitors their health and advises owners in Pashto or Dari.

On Camera

Trump’s unpredictability is not the absence of strategy—it works on everyone but China

The Italian term sprezzatura—a studied nonchalance that conceals intention—best captures the spirit of Trump’s foreign policy so far. The pattern is unpredictability, transactionalism, and disruption as diplomacy.

Asia’s ‘weakest’ link: Yunus on a tightrope as Bangladesh tries to fix banks without breaking economy

With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.