In 2023, the world witnessed 40% increase in conflicts since 2020. ThePrint looks at some of the most intense conflicts raging across the world, with help of maps & historical context.
Framework outlines that Hamas should release 40 of hostages — women, sick & elderly — during first 6-week pause in fighting. In return, Israel to release hundreds of Palestinian prisoners.
Iran's IRGC Navy Saturday seized MSC Aries, which was on its way to Navi Mumbai. India is in touch with Iranian authorities to ensure security & early release of Indians, it is learnt.
Israeli military said, during its operation, it had killed and detained hundreds of gunmen in clashes in the area of the hospital, and seized weaponry and intelligence documents.
The protests were over 5 months into Gaza war and against Netanyahu’s coalition govt, demanding end to exemption of ultra-Orthodox Jewish men from compulsory military service.
Data shows that India’s refined petroleum exports went from $96.57 billion in FY23 to $61.41 billion in FY24. Experts say decline is mainly due to Russia-Ukraine war.
Party leader Salman Khurshid said ‘the UN is helpless as people are slaughtered’, a day after Priyanka Vadra termed Gaza violence as ‘genocide being carried out with impunity’.
It is necessary to break the spell of socialist dogma on the imagination of those attracted by its Utopia as the only scientific way of progress, wrote MA Venkatarao in 1963.
While bond yields tend to fall amid low inflation & interest rate cuts, market experts say they’ve been rising due to concerns over tax collections, fiscal deficit & potential impact of US tariffs.
It is one of the most advanced long-range air defence and anti-missile radars. It has been acquired under an about USD 145-million deal signed in 2020.
To be truly functional and durable, even eternal, a state doesn’t just need a leader, a party or an ideology. It needs functional and robust institutions.
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