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Pakistan logged nearly 2,000 child abuse cases in just six months of 2026 — but the more damning figure is the conviction rate, which remains critically low. According to reports, offenders routinely…
A new report challenges the narrative around China's overseas port ambitions: despite physical improvements at docks in…
On the sidelines of the 69th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference in Cape Town, Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman Harivansh Narayan…
South Korea's Unification Minister has flatly rejected the 'denuclearise first' framework that has long gridlocked Korean…
Italian PM Giorgia Meloni’s birthday message to Modi is more than a diplomatic courtesy — it is the latest data point in a…
A CEPA think-tank report reveals that Chinese-made devices already embedded in Western ports, bus fleets, energy grids, and…
A new Chinese administrative decree — effective 15 September — now formally empowers authorities to bar anyone, including foreign…
India's High Commissioner to Fiji and the Minister of State for External Affairs have both formally condoled the death of Fiji's…
Nepal has formalised a 24-hour rule for reporting lost, stolen, or cancelled passports to Interpol's global SLTD database — a…
