U.S., ISRAEL OFFICIALLY QUIT UNESCO

Source : www.thehindu.com Date : 2019-01-02 U.S., ISRAEL OFFICIALLY QUIT UNESCO Relevant for: International Relations | Topic: United Nations (UNO) The U.S. and Israel officially quit the UN’s educational, scientific and cultural agency (UNESCO) at the stroke of midnight, the culmination of a process triggered more than a year ago amid concerns that the organisation…

INTEGRATING THE ISLAND

Source : www.indianexpress.com Date : 2019-01-02 INTEGRATING THE ISLAND Relevant for: World & Indian Geography | Topic: Physical Geography of Asia incl. important Geopolitical regions   Raja Mohan is Director, Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore, and the consulting editor on foreign affairs for ‘The Indian Express’. Before his association with The…