Values and climate action: For years, climate negotiations were dominated by numbers: tonnes of CO₂, degrees of warming, billions of dollars in finance. Increasingly, another language is entering the room—the language of values, ethics and spirituality. From the UN Environment Programme’s Faith for Earth initiative to Pope Francis’s Laudato Si’ and interfaith declarations at climate…
Trump Approval Rating 2025 has taken a sharp hit as President Donald Trump’s approval drops to 38 percent—the lowest level of his term—according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll. The decline reflects rising public frustration over persistent cost-of-living pressures and the controversy surrounding the Jeffrey Epstein files. As Americans struggle with higher grocery prices and witness…
Penny Wong’s Delhi Arrival: Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong arrived in New Delhi with a clear mission to fortify the already dynamic relationship between India and Australia. This visit marks her 26th engagement with India’s External Affairs Minister, Dr. S Jaishankar, co-chairing the 16th edition of the Australia-India Foreign Ministers’ Framework Dialogue. The meeting reaffirms…
Climate Change 2025: Climate change has become the defining issue of our time. What was once predicted to happen “in the future” is now unfolding rapidly around us. The year 2025 stands at a crucial crossroads — with extreme weather worsening, global inequality widening, and the world’s ecosystems under severe pressure. The COP30 Summit in…
Geopolitical Conflicts: The year 2025 has emerged as one of the most geopolitically turbulent periods in recent history. Major global conflicts, resurging rivalries among superpowers, and escalating tensions across strategic regions have created an atmosphere of uncertainty that affects every corner of the world. This article explores the key conflicts shaping international relations today, the…
4th AMRO Forum: The ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic Research Office (AMRO) is set to host the 4th ASEAN+3 Economic Cooperation and Financial Stability Forum (AMRO Forum) on Tuesday, November 25, 2025 (09:00–15:00 HKT/GMT+8), in hybrid format from Hong Kong, China. Co-organized with the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) and the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), the forum…
LPG Import Deal: Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Hardeep Singh Puri announced that public sector oil companies have concluded a one-year term contract to import around 2.2 million tonnes per annum (MTPA) of LPG from the US Gulf Coast for the contract year 2026—equivalent to about 10% of India’s annual LPG imports. The government…
Supercomputing Centers: NVIDIA is turning its quantum–classical “bridge” from concept into deployed infrastructure. At the SC25 supercomputing conference in St. Louis, the company announced that more than a dozen leading scientific supercomputing centers and national laboratories worldwide are adopting NVIDIA NVQLink™, described as a first-of-its-kind, open, universal interconnect linking quantum processors with NVIDIA’s accelerated computing…
Saudi Arabia Bus Fire: A routine overnight journey between two holy cities turned into one of the deadliest overseas tragedies involving Indian pilgrims in recent years. In the early hours of Monday, 17 November 2025, a passenger bus carrying Indian Umrah pilgrims from Mecca to Medina collided with a diesel tanker near a location identified…
Digital Privacy & Data Protection: In 2026, digital privacy has become one of the most contested arenas in global policy. As data flows become more integral to daily life, countries are racing to define who controls it and how it can be used. The European Union continues to enforce one of the world’s strictest data…