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With reports that Syrian President Basher Al Assad has fled the country and the rebel coalition led by Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham has seized power and control of major cities in Syria, the bigger question is what will happen now in Syria. How is the West, particularly the US going to react to this victory of the Islamists in Syria?

The world observes International Human Rights Day annually on December 10 to commemorate the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) by the United Nations General Assembly at Paris on December 10, 1948, as the world’s most groundbreaking global pledges. The landmark document enshrines the inalienable rights that everyone is entitled to as a human being regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, language, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. The UDHR sets out common standards for all peoples and nations as a global blueprint for international, national and local laws and policies and as bedrock of the 2030 UN agenda for sustainable development.

OPEC+ has recalibrated its production strategy, extending voluntary output adjustments to stabilize oil markets in the face of uncertain global demand and geopolitical pressures. The alliance’s decision to prolong cuts until the first quarter of 2025 aims to counterbalance potential oversupply and demand fluctuations, particularly linked to Donald Trump’s policies and China's economic challenges.

Donald Trump’s re-election as U.S. President could have a big impact on India-US relations, especially in areas like technology, chips, and semiconductors. As he begins his second term on January 20 next year ,, both countries will face a mix of opportunities and challenges that could shape their tech and economic ties in new ways.

Bengal, earlier known as the state for bandhs by the labour, has attained a prime position for doing business among the states in the country. The state which a decade back was most despised by the leading industrialists as well as academics and political leaders and was derided as a state with no hope for resurrection of industrial and business activities, has been acknowledged by a recent survey of SKOCH as the country's "new IT capital".

'Hindu-Muslim' is a post-2014 phenomenon. Now, there is the allegation that India is looking at Bangladesh through a “Hindu lens”, instead of looking at Bangladesh through a “Muslim lens.” The critic forgets that Bangladesh is looking at India through a “Muslim lens” and that there is an undeclared war between India and Bangladesh. Also, Pakistan is taking advantage even as the minority Hindus in Bangladesh are being subjected to untold miseries. Rape. Murder. Abduction. Religious Persecution. And imprisonment.

LONDON: The crisis of continuity liberalism engulfing France applies in Britain too. Our government may not have fallen, but unless it changes course it will, as soon as it has to face the electorate. President Emmanuel Macron is in denial. Addressing the French on Thursday night, he blamed everyone but himself for the collapse of the Michel Barnier government: an unholy alliance of far left and far right had conspired to defeat the centre.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi invited Russian President Vladimir Putin to visit India at the time of his visit to the BRICS summit at Kazan in Russia in October this year. This was immediately accepted by President Putin and in the last six weeks since the Kazan conclave on October 22-23 this year, the Russian foreign ministry came out officially twice with the statement about the Russian President’s India visit and why this was very significant for the boosting of bilateral relations.

On December 6, 1992, exactly 32 years ago, Babri Mosque at Ayodhya was demolished. On November 9, 2019, a five-judge bench of the Supreme Court of India delivered a verdict for building Ram Temple at the demolition site. Ram Temple was inaugurated by PM Narendra Modi on January 22, 2024. Now, many other Mosques and Dargahs (Muslim places of worship) have become new targets, creating great communal tensions and disharmony between Hindus and Muslims across the country, contrary to the expectations rose from the Ayodhya Verdict.

A debate among economists and policy wonks was raging about the deceleration of the Indian economy and rising price line particularly in the context of the forthcoming monetary policy of the Reserve Bank of India.