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• Be N By IAS, Delhi
• 17, Mar 2021

For : GS-2: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONSCONTEXT:Nigeria’s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala was appointed as the first female and first African head of the beleaguered World Trade Organization (WTO).NEWS IN DETAILS:Virtual special General Council meeting: The WTO called a virtual spe

• Be N By IAS, Delhi
• 23, Feb 2021

For: GS-2: International RelationsCONTEXT:The head of the United Nations' nuclear watchdog met with Iranian officials in a bid to preserve his inspectors' ability to monitor Tehran's atomic program, even as Iranian authorities said they planned to cut off IAEA’

• Be N By IAS, Delhi
• 18, Feb 2021

For : GS-2: International Relations, International InstitutionCONTEXT:Biden government has reversed Trump’s move to withdraw from organisation.TRUMP Withdrawal from WHO:WHO as puppet of China: Trump had pulled the U.S. out of the WHO, which he had called a ‘

• Be N By IAS, Delhi
• 18, Feb 2021

For : GS-2: International RelationCONTEXT:Signalling a closer alignment with other partners, India officially used the term “Quad” for the first time to describe its grouping with theUS,Australia andJapanIt is increasingly being seen as a possible co

• Be N By IAS, Delhi
• 17, Feb 2021

For: GS-2: International RelationsCONTEXT:India and Mauritius have signed Comprehensive Economic Cooperation and Partnership Agreement (CECPA). This is the first trade Agreement signed by India with a country in Africa.COMPREHENSIVE ECONOMIC COOPERATION AND PARTNERSHIP AGREEME

• Be N By IAS, Delhi
• 16, Feb 2021

For: GS-2: International RelationsCONTEXT:Seven West Media has become the largest Australian news media business to strike a deal with Google to pay for journalism in a partnership announced on Monday.Meanwhile Nation's Parliament considers draft laws to force digital g

• Be N By IAS, Delhi
• 13, Feb 2021

For : GS-2: International relationsCONTEXT:IN A SETBACK for India, the Rajapaksa government in Sri Lanka, which is facing the threat of nationwide agitations against port privatisation, has cancelled the Port deal.It was an agreement signed by the previous regime in 2019 for I

• Be N By IAS, Delhi
• 10, Feb 2021

For : GS-2-International RelationsCONTEXT:"India is one of the most important partners in the Indo-Pacific region to us. We welcome India's emergence as a leading global power and its role as a net security provider in the region," State Department Spokesperso

• Be N By IAS, Delhi
• 10, Feb 2021

For : GS-2: International RelationsCONTEXT:China and India have agreed to return to the pre-April 2020 positions in eastern Ladakh along the Line of Actual Control (LAC), according to the latest disengagement plan being implemented on the ground.BACKGROUND:India and China ha

• Be N By IAS, Delhi
• 04, Feb 2021

For: GS-2: International RelationsCONTEXT:The International Criminal Court on Thursday convicted Dominic Ongwen, a Ugandan child soldier-turned-Lord’s Resistance Army commander of war crimes and crimes against humanity.WHAT WAS THE ISSUE?Ongwen ordered attacks on refug