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Lessons for India Amidst Corona

2020 begun with contagious and deadly Novel CoronaVirus causes unprecedented deaths, Economic Losses but as every adversity brings seeds of Equal or Higher Opportunities likewise India too have points to ponder, introspect & should seize this adversity for better India. Practice of Proper Sanitation Poor Sanitation causes Diarrhea, Cholera, Dysentry, Typhoid, polio which accounts for 10% of death in India as per the World Bank. Every year over 300,000 Indians die from diarrheal diseases which could have been saved by providing only proper Sanitation facilities. Due to Coronavirus, guidelines of WHO has reached to every nook and corner of India and the peoples from rural and low socio-economic background started paying attention for basic health hygiene to contain the Coronavirus-like regular handwashing, cough and sneeze discipline, social distancing and wearing masks which itself by practicing for the last several days, get accustomed to it and the subconscious mind of ...

Negative Crude Oil Price & Geopolitics

What Happened? Recently, US market saw unprecedented lowest Crude Oil Price below zero at  -$40/Barrels of West Texas Intermediate (WTI), one of the Benchmarks of crude oil based on texas, US. This is one of the lowest Crude prices ever happened in History where the seller's would be paying buyer's to buy Crude Oil. Benchmarks of Crude Oil Mainly 3 Benchmarks in the world for Crude oil Production exists, according to its quality and the Geographical Locations of productions. 1 . West Texas Intermediate(WTI) : This benchmark is based on The Shale oil production based near Texas, US, considered to be one of the best Oil in the world because of its lowest density, easier to refine, and Highest quality. 2. Brent Blend:  This benchmark of Crude Oil is extracted from the Northern Sea in Europe. 3. OPEC Basket:  This Benchmark is based on Oil being extracted by countries from OPEC (Saudi Arabia, Algeria, UAE, Venezuela, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, etc) whose Density of Oil ...

The Corona Impact on US-China Relation

Why in News? The Outbreak of Covid 19 has spread around the world affected almost all the continents, imbalances lifestyles, economic budgets, trades, Supply Chains, etc but at the same time also deteriorated the Relations between US-China. Although the Trade war between two had also impacted the relations, the Pandemic took the relations at even lower levels. The Blame Game Although in December 2019, the news of first Covid 19 cases had come to the world from China but the narrative from China says the Patient Zero is the Soldier from the US Army. Although, the first appearance of the case in China gave ample reasons to the world to consider the patient zero from Chinese territory. Series of Actions In the series of this, Both countries had expelled the no. of journalists from each other’s country, to show their disapproval against each other, but what catches the world is the passage of the “Taipei Act” after signing the Bill passed through the Senate of US. L...

INDO NEPAL DISPUTE : KALAPANI

India & Nepal Shares a very Harmonious relationship among themselves including similar Culture, Cuisine, Language & Religion, India shares 4 states boundary with Nepal and India having a long list of Nepali soldiers serving in Indian Army in a Gorkha Regt. Nepal is the only nation whose citizens are not required to take Visas and vice versa, by these 2 examples ,one could understand the Harmony between the 2 Nations. But still, both are having a disputed territory named KALAPANI. Why in News? Recently after the abrogation of Article 370 and 35 A of the Indian constitution by Presidential order, India released the Political Map which shows the entire part of Kalapani in the state of Uttrakhand. Since then Nepali Administration had registered their protest. History When India was ruled by British Administrations in the 17th century, in the 1816 British  Army and the Nepali Kingdom fought the war, with loss of the war, Nepal lost 1/3rd of their land and the Sugauli...

CITIZENSHIP AMENDMENT ACT (CAA)

Recently, after the amendments in the Citizenship act of 1955 by both the houses of parliament, a huge Ruckus has been developed in the country among people out of its lack of knowledge. The government should have been cautious about the Vandalism, they should have been proactive instead of reactive, they should propagate the exact meaning of the laws through all channels viz. Radio, TV and even with the volunteers at Sub-district level to educate unaware citizens about laws so the anti-social elements cant be benefited by their agenda and country would only saw peaceful protest instead of Vandalism. What is CAA? As per the citizenship act of 1955, Indian citizenship can be taken by 3 means only viz.. 1. By Birth in India 2. Parents belong to India 3. By Naturalisation  Lets, talk about the 3rd one, as per the 1955 act, any Non-Citizen could get the citizenship of India if He/She has spent 11 years out of the last 15 years of his life By Living in India irres...

NAGA PEACE TALK

Do You the largest and the oldest insurgency in Asia? Yes, it exists in our country in the Nagaland and the contiguous border it shares with Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, and also with Myanmar. Naga is known for its unique cultures, ethnicity, and Tradition well different from general Indian customs.  This fact made them little uncomfortable to merge with general Indian Traditions History It was in the 18th century when through East India Company, Britishers start their rule in India, but with the huge Independence movement in 1857, it was formally being transferred to British Empire in the 19th century. While Britishers start ruling at most of the parts of India during the 18th century but at the same time they started increasing their footprints across the different corners of Indian Subcontinents. It was in 1826 when Britishers annexed the Northeastern part of India through Assam and had reached then Assam's eastern district Naga Hill, now Nagaland, and had started contr...

RCEP : An Opportunity or Threat for India

It was in 2014 when the new Indian Government was formed by humongous vote from the People of India,it started increasing her foreign policy to make it even better, the smallest example was converting mere look east policy to act east policy,  and it became more evident after India suffered regular terrorist attacks from Pakistan.  India made SAARC ineffective by not engaging and participating because of Pakistan's presence and it started more engagement with east, hence participation with ASEAN nation had increased. India had made engagement with Asean nation so much that it even Envisage to construct tri national highway to connect India with Myanmar and Thailand. Although plethora of projects have been going on by India on Asean nation in which most Important is Kaladan Multi model project which shouldn't been seen just a mere project with Myanmar but is being a very strategically very important as far as Indian northeastern security is concern. Kaladan project is go...