Five years since the COVID-19 lockdown: How AI is putting life in the fast lane
March 2020 was when the world hit pause. Airports emptied, city streets grew silent, and entire countries retreated indoors. What started as "two weeks to flatten the curve" spiraled into months of uncertainty. Time felt stretched, endless - one long, monotonous loop of home workouts, doom-scrolling, and everyone suddenly becoming a chef, experimenting with recipes they’d never try otherwise.
Women's growing role in Pakistan’s peace policies
The role of women in peacemaking at the national level is still nascent. However, Pakistan’s women UN peacekeeping missions' role in promoting peace in post-conflict spaces is widely acknowledged. More than 500 hundred Pakistani women peacekeepers are currently in different UN missions.
Chinese checkers - weaving a string of pearls around India
Viewing the Chinese projects in Nepal’s Terai region, and close to the strategic Chicken’s Neck in Bangladesh, together with the one in the waters of Maldives, one can see that China's calculated moves seek to slowly encircle India.
EU's 'new strategic agenda' with India: Crisis in US ties compels Brussels to seek closer partnership with New Delhi
The transatlantic alliance, considered to be a pillar of geopolitical stability, now faces an uncertain future and the realism that Europe can no longer depend on its security on the US has begun to creep in the minds of policymakers in Brussels.
