CURRENT AFFAIRS

Recently , UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres urged wealthy nations to end coal use by 2030.

The announcement by President Joe Biden that the US will withdraw all its troops from Afghanistan by September 11, 2021, the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, has sent tremors through the region’s fault-lines.

India is celebrating the 130th birth anniversary of Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar on 14th April. Country is honouring the accomplishments of Ambedkar and the impact of his legacy on the Constitution of India and jurisprudence and legal scholarship. 

“Lower the expectations” might not seem a very ambitious prescription for the immediate future of India’s troubled relations with China.

The foreign ministers of BIMSTEC (the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation) met virtually on April 1.

The National Commission for Allied and Healthcare Professions Bill, 2020 (NCAHP) was passed by Parliament in March. The Bill seeks to regulate and standardise the education and practice of allied and healthcare professionals.

The recent visit of Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov to Delhi and Islamabad is among multiple signs of India’s changing relations with the great powers. 

It can be said that the only constant in Nepali politics is ‘unpredictability’. Mr. K.P. Sharma Oli briskly dissolved the Lower House of the federal Parliament on December 20, 2020.

The US Navy recently conducted a freedom of navigation patrol in Indian waters without India’s prior consent, declaring that it was intended to challenge India’s “excessive maritime claims”.

With the single-day spike in COVID-19 cases setting records, India’s second wave is feared to be longer and more intense than the first one.