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• Integrity Education, Delhi
• 01, Oct 2021

A new study has found under-reported debts to the tune of $385 billion in projects carried out in dozens of countries under China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)The rise in “hidden” debt is on account of an increasing number of deals struck not directly between

• Integrity Education, Delhi
• 30, Sep 2021

Tunisia’s President on Wednesday named geologist Najla Bouden as the country’s first ever woman Prime Ministerdesignate, to form a government with limited executive clout.President Kais Saied, on July 25, sacked the government of Hichem Mechichi, suspended Parliament,

• Integrity Education, Delhi
• 30, Sep 2021

Japan’s ruling party elected former Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida its new leaderThe soft-spoken centrist defeated popular vaccine chief Taro Kono in an unusually close race to succeed Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga.After a special parliamentary session set to take place on

• Integrity Education, Delhi
• 20, Sep 2021

Reason: Australia ditched a deal that was worth $36.5 billion to buy French submarines in favour of U.S. vesselsThe abandonment of the ocean-class submarine project that Australia and France had been working on since 2016 constituted “unacceptable behaviour among allies and

• Integrity Education, Delhi
• 18, Sep 2021

The MeghEA initiative is spread across 6 pillars i.e.  Governance, Human Resources, Entrepreneurship, Primary Sector, Infrastructure and Environment, and envision to make Meghalaya a high income state by 2030.The project aims to improve service delivery and governance for the

• Integrity Education, Delhi
• 17, Sep 2021

The World Bank has discontinued publishing its much sought-after Doing Business ranking after an external audit unearthed undue interference from its senior staff in changing rankings of specific countries.Data irregularities on Doing Business 2018 and 2020 were reported interna

• Integrity Education, Delhi
• 17, Sep 2021

China cited a United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolution issued after the 1998 nuclear tests to question India’s missile programme amid reports of an upcoming test for the Agni-V intercontinental ballistic missile.The UNSC Resolution 1172 calls upon India and Pakistan:

• Integrity Education, Delhi
• 16, Sep 2021

The Biden administration announced a new trilateral security partnership for the Indo-Pacific between Australia, the U.K. and the U.S. (AUKUS).This Trilateral grouping is security focused, different from — but complementary to — arrangements such as the Quad.A centra

• Integrity Education, Delhi
• 08, Sep 2021

Panjshir means Valley of Five LionsPanjshir is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan, located in the northeastern part of the country containing the Panjshir Valley (Panjshir River)Panjshir Province is ringed by the Panjshir mountains in the north and the Kuhestan moun

• Integrity Education, Delhi
• 08, Sep 2021

The Taliban announced that Mullah Hasan Akhund has been appointed interim prime minister of Afghanistan.Who is Mullah Akhund ?Akhund served as foreign minister in     Taliban government of the 1990sAkhund is a conservative, religious scholar whose beliefs includ