by Team Spectrum Books | Dec 8, 2020 | International Affairs
India’s external affairs minister participated in the inaugural of the Doha inter-Afghan negotiations in September 2020. This does not suggest that India has now warmed to the Taliban; rather it highlights the fact that India has no reservations in interacting with...
by Team Spectrum Books | Dec 8, 2020 | International Affairs
After two decades of negotiations and discussions between India and USA on October 24, 2020, the Basic Exchange and Cooperation Agreement (BECA) was signed at the 2+2 dialogue between the defence and foreign ministers of India and the United States in Delhi, which...
by Team Spectrum Books | Dec 8, 2020 | International Affairs
In October 2020, Foreign secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla and army chief Gen. M.M. Naravane made a two-day visit to Myanmar in which they met Myanmar’s State Counsellor, Aung San Suu Kyi and the Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services, Senior General, Min Aung Hlaing,...
by Team Spectrum Books | Dec 8, 2020 | International Affairs
On October 15, 2020 jeering protesters obstructed Queen Suthida’s motorcade and thousands of them gathered at Government House to demand the removal of the prime minister, Prayuth. Consequently, the government banned gatherings of more than five people in Bangkok,...
by Team Spectrum Books | Dec 5, 2020 | International Affairs
As published by media on October 29, 2020, the Xinhua report said China is setting up a cloud computing centre in a high-tech zone in Lhasa, the capital of the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR). Tibet has a long and disputed boundary with India, which will become...
by Team Spectrum Books | Sep 11, 2020 | International Affairs
India has formed a coalition of nine countries—India, S. Africa, Bolivia, Cuba, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Ecuador, Tunisia, and Malawi—in order to place special provisions for developing countries and tackle high farm subsidies in developed countries. Another reason cited for...