World has become a global village by virtue of internet, where people from across the world interact. Internet’s has transformed both our personal lives and the world of commerce. Where the internet has transformed the way we interact and conduct business, it has also, created boundless opportunities for hackers to conduct Cyber attacks. Cyber attacks
Read more →What is Non Aligned Movement? When the Cold War started in the mid-twentieth century, the two world powers – the Soviet Union and US – responded by organising their allies into rival military alliances. The US founded the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), and shorter-lived alliances. The Soviet Union founded the Warsaw Pact. Another response
Read more →United Nations Security Council United Nations Security Council was established in 1945 after the World War II. It is one of the six principal organs of United Nations and is entrusted with ensuring international peace and security, accepting new members to the United Nations and approving changes to its charter. One of the most important
Read more →ASEAN stands for Association of Southeast Asian Nations. It was established on 8 August 1967 in Bangkok, Thailand by signing of the ASEAN declaration. Initially, it comprised of five major Southeast Asian nations – Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. Brunei Darussalam, Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar and Cambodia joined later. Today, ASEAN has 10 member states.
Read more →What is BIMSTEC? The Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) is a regional organization comprising seven Member States lying in the littoral and adjacent areas of the Bay of Bengal constituting a contiguous regional unity. This sub-regional organization came into being on 6 June 1997 through the Bangkok Declaration. It
Read more →The Term BRIC was introduced by Jim O’Neill of Goldman Sachs in 2003 to refer to an emerging bloc of four countries – Brazil, Russia, India and China. With inclusion of South Africa in 2010, the term became ‘BRICS’, which actually an acronym for the five member countries. The bloc offers a unique opportunity for
Read more →The latest, thirteenth G-20 Summit was held in Buenos Aires in Argentina on November 30 – December 1 2018. This was the first G-20 Summit held in South America in which over 45 meetings were held between the world leaders and various government counterparts in two days. What is G-20? Group of Twenty or G-20
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