India’s pension regulator has significantly broadened investment opportunities for National Pension System (NPS) fund managers, allowing deeper participation in equities, bonds, and alternative assets, according to newly issued guidelines. The updates, released
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Meta Platforms Inc. CEO Mark Zuckerberg is intensifying his personal involvement in the company’s artificial intelligence efforts as Meta pivots toward a new, revenue-focused model codenamed Avocado, according to sources cited by
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U.S. allies that fail to adequately fund defense and shirk contributions to collective security will face repercussions, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth declared at the 2025 Reagan National Defense Forum in Simi Valley,
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The history of instability in Afghanistan, and the recent outbreak of violence in Badakhshan, demonstrates that the situation within the country has weakened to the extent that the processes taking place there
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Central Asian states are rapidly deepening ties with Pakistan, signaling a historic shift after decades of mistrust. As reported in Eurasia Net, a mix of economic ambition and shared security concerns is
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Democracy survives only when citizens are willing to fight for it, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Corina Machado declared on Wednesday in a speech read by her daughter during a ceremony she
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The Trump administration is pressing the International Criminal Court to amend its founding statute to ensure it cannot prosecute President Donald Trump or his senior officials once his term ends in 2029,
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U.S. farmers bracing for steep losses this year offered cautious thanks for President Donald Trump’s newly announced $12 billion aid package, but many told Reuters the support barely scratches the surface of
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The National Liberation Army (ELN), Colombia’s largest remaining guerrilla group, is willing to restart peace negotiations with President Gustavo Petro’s government — or with the administration elected next year — provided that
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Germany has rejected proposals to create a new multilateral defence bank, dealing a major setback to efforts aimed at establishing a global state-backed lender to accelerate European and NATO rearmament. The country’s
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Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has become a frequent and discreet visitor to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office throughout the Gaza war, with Haaretz reporting that the two held their most
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American military assistance has become the backbone of Israel’s modern war machine, even as political pressure in Washington grows to scale back the decades-long subsidy. The current 10-year aid agreement, worth $38
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Chhattisgarh’s 25th anniversary was framed by the Union government as a triumphant milestone: naxalism reduced to a shadow of its former presence, security forces in command, and development ready to surge. Prime
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Air India allowed an Airbus A320 to operate eight commercial flights without a mandatory airworthiness certificate, an internal investigation has found — a violation that the carrier acknowledged resulted from deep-rooted lapses
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Editorial Today is Human Rights Day — at least 48,384 civilians were recorded killed in conflict zones in 2024; 1.1 billion people live in acute multidimensional poverty worldwide, of whom some 455
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