India’s lack of a strategic culture hobbles its ambition to be a force in the world Nobody doubts that China has joined the ranks of the great powers: the idea of a G2 with America is mooted, albeit prematurely. India is often spoken of in the same breath as China because of its billion-plus population, economic promise, value as a …

The Resolution of the Cyprus Banking Collapse Paves the Way for More Crises. The international financial community and the markets have declared victory over Cyprus’s banking crisis. But the solution imposed on Cyprus ‘taxing big deposits’ may pave the way for the next European financial crisis. To read the headlines, it surely seems like the crisis in Cyprus has been …

More than two years have elapsed since the Arab Spring started its sweep across the Middle East and North Africa. The scope and yield of these revolts, primarily manifested through an overturn of political authority and bids for greater democratization, have often been compared in magnitude with the 1989 anti-communist revolutions in Eastern Europe. Despite all dissimilarities, these two distinct …

The Korean Peninsula is passing through a difficult and an unprecedented dangerous period nowadays. American and South Korean troops are conducting large-scale training exercises in the Korean region and North Korea is also flexing its muscles and is threatening to attack USA. The North Korea’s leadership has also indicated that the country will pull out of the 1953 Armistice that …

If the North aims nuclear missiles at the South, would the U.S. immediately retaliate with nuclear weapons? The uproar over North Korea’s third nuclear test has died down to some extent. Vehement condemnation and outcries toward unruly North Korea – as if it was ready to start a nuclear war – have simmered down. But the advances in the North’s …

After months of deliberation and a rigorous selection process, Dubai’s Vikas Pota has been selected the ‘Young Global Leader’. With multi-billionaire Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and co-founder and CEO of Google Larry Page, noted as some of the titles past winners, Pota pipped hundreds of other nominees, from around the world, to the post, with his vision championing a better …

In 1948, the World Health Organization held the First World Health Assembly. The Assembly decided to celebrate 7 April of each year, with effect from 1950, as the World Health Day. The theme for 2013 is high blood pressure. World Health Day is celebrated on 7 April to mark the anniversary of the founding of World Health Organization in 1948. …

Britain has long attracted and welcomed high caliber students from all corners of the world. In the recent UK Visa Policy, Tier 4 is the points-based system that mainly deals with the students. Can You Apply? As a Tier 4 (General) student, you must have 40 points in the points-assessment. You can score: 30 points for having a valid confirmation …

“The incident in Jallian Wala Bagh was ‘an extraordinary event, a monstrous event, an event which stands in singular and sinister isolation” Winston Churchill On April 13, 1919, Brigadier-General Reginald E.H. Dyer opened fire on an unarmed gathering in Jallianwala Bagh. Official sources place the casualties at 379, private sources say that the number was over 1000 and Civil Surgeon …

The economy has survived austerity thus far this year thanks to housing, but the sequester’ could change that. What is Sequester? Sequester is a procedure in United States law that limits the size of the federal budget. It involves setting a hard cap on the amount of government spending within broadly-defined categories; if Congress enacts annual appropriations legislation that exceeds …