# Military spending World military spending continued to grow in 2021, reaching a record $2.1 trillion despite the economic fallout of the pandemic. This data on global military spending has been published by the Stockholm international peace research Institute. The five largest spenders in 2021 were US, China, India, UK and Russia. Top 5 countries […]

# Jammu and Kashmir Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in J&K on Sunday that Kashmiri youth of today would not suffer the miseries that the previous generations in the valley had gone through. PM Modi was inaugurating development projects estimated at ₹20000 crore aimed at reducing “Dilli se doori”. PM Modi was speaking on national […]

# World Trade organization Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director general, world Trade organization (WTO), is looking into resolving WTO rules that are making it difficult for India to export food grains to meet shortages in other countries. There are specific WTO rules around the export of food by a country that had also procured food grains on […]

# kashmir Two unidentified Jaish e Mohammed terrorists on a fidayeen (suicide) mission were killed in Jammu on Friday. Incident happened two days ahead of prime minister Narendra Modi’s first public address in J&K since the removal of special status under article 370 in August 2019. Preliminary information suggested that the terrorists were non-locals and […]

# Maldives Maldivian president Ibrahim Mohammed Solih on Thursday issued a decree banning the ‘India out’ campaign. ‘India out’ campaign has been led by former president Abdullah yameen. Presidential order said the campaign against India exploited the freedom and intends to disrupt the long standing bilateral relations between the Maldives and India. ‘India Out’ campaign […]

# United Kingdom A UK court on Wednesday issued a formal order to extradite Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to the US to face trial over the publication of secret files relating to the Iraq and Afghanistan war. The decision now rests with the interior minister Priti patel to take final call. Julian Assange may still […]

# Inflation Inflation in India’s wholesale price hit a four months high of 14.55% in March, from 13.11% in February. Wholesale price inflation (WPI) accelerated due to price rise across all categories of goods, with fuel and power as well as primary articles driving most of the gains. This is the 12th month in a […]

# Supreme Court The retirements in the top most rung of the judiciary in 2022 will encompass changes in the powerful supreme Court collegium and see two new chief justices in a span of two months. The Supreme Court statistics shows that 70362 cases are pending with it as on April 1, 2022. The current […]

# Punjab The newly elected Punjab government on Saturday announced 300 units of free electricity per month to every household in the state from July 1. Chief minister Bhagwant Mann in a video message clarified that the free electricity to farmers for agriculture would also continue and there would be no rise in the power […]

# Srilanka Srilanka’s finance minister Ali Sabry said that Srilanka’s economic recovery will depend on the reforms undertaken with the IMF’s support. Ali sabry is visiting Washington DC to lead the Srilankan delegation in negotiation with the International monetary Fund. According to a recent world Bank report on Srilanka, the pandemic years saw at least […]