In May 2019, all 194 countries that set the agenda of the World Health Organization met at the 72nd World Health Assembly and endorsed the establishment of World Patient Safety Day to be marked annually on 17 September. But this year's COVID-19 pandemic has unveiled the huge challenges and ri

India was hoping against the hopes that something positive would come out from the talks between the Foreign Ministers of India and China at Mosco on September 10. But India is frustrated (https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/no-mention-of-status-quo-in-india-china-talks-on-ladakh-opposition-fum

India’s Ambassador to the United Nations, T S Tirumurti  has asked the UN Security Council to take off  the "outdated agenda item" of the "India-Pakistan question'', from the Council.

Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United Nations Munir Akram re

Pakistan support could not create Khalistan but now Chinese additional support for mini-Khalistan (in the first stage) will make all the difference.

There is a general impression that Khalistan (independent country for Sikhs) activists are operating mainly from Canada and the UK but now

The funeral on September 7 of ‘Special Frontier Force’ (SFF) company leader Nyima Tenzin, martyred in a landmine blast in an operation along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) during August 29-30, was held at Leh in the Union Territory of Ladakh. From the ‘Bharatiya Janata Party&r

Many women and girls around the world have experienced contraception failure, missed taking oral contraceptive pills, or been forced to have sex against their will. For these women, emergency contraception is a safe and effective method that reduces the risk of pregnancy. Expanding the range of c

Description automatically generatedThe COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the fragility of weak health systems that were ill prepared to withstand the onslaught of the pandemic. As documented by the Pulse survey of the WHO, the pandemic has resulted in disruption of essential health services, includin

In his interaction with Press on September, 2 (https://www.state.gov/secretary-michael-r-pompeo-at-a-press-availability-12/ ) the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo talked about many subjects but one issue namely of India-China is the most important and deserve closer scrutiny as it will have impl

Presently since May 2020 the military stand-off is going on at Eastern Ladakh of united-J&K between India and China where casualties have also taken place and further military escalation is highly likely between nuclear China (plus nuclear Pakistan which will certainly be on its side due to K

Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is working hard on both domestic and international fronts to advance his grand design of reviving an Islamic caliphate under his rule. It is now no secret that he sees himself as the rightful heir of the former Ottoman caliphate which was abolished in 1924 by

The gullible Indians (substantial part of the population) are dancing since August 24 as Chief of Defense Staff (CDS) General Bipin Rawat said (reported also at https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/india-has-military-options-to-deal-with-chinese-transgressions-if-talks-fail-cds-rawat/article

Maulana Fazalur Rehman [the President of political party Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F) which has been part of governments at Centre and in States at various levels and at various times] when launched march from Karachi, Sindh through Punjab and carried out  Dharna (sit-in) at Pak capital Islamaba

Countries in the Asia Pacific region are in the forefront of bearing the onslaught of climate change. During the last three decades 45% of the world's natural disasters have occurred in this region, which is vulnerable to floods, cyclones, earthquakes, droughts, storms and tsunamis.

Christianity should stop putting cart before horse: People thought that in a situation where Prez Trump is totally oblivious of the Christian values of human rights & working-class friendly secular democracy, at least Democrat’s Presidential nominee Joe Biden will promise to uphold thes

Saudis have only one option that is to hitch their wagon with developments in Greater India (ii)- Only Jared Kushner can bail-out Saudis from present problems of Islamic world.

This refers to remarks made by Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Pakistan’s foreign minister, in an interview to a l