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The idea of avoiding war lies in preventing potential losses. If war is inevitable, says Chinese general Sun Tzu, the attempt should be to overwhelm the enemy quickly, with a thorough assessment of their strengths and weaknesses.

The big worry is that upheaval could knock investment into Israel's technology sector — the poster child of the economy that accounts for almost a fifth of GDP, more than half of exports and a quarter of income tax revenues.

Project Tiger was launched by the Indira Gandhi government on April 1, 1973, in a bid to promote conservation of the tiger. It came at a time when the population of tigers in India was rapidly dwindling, reaching an all time low due to unfettered hunting and habitat loss.

Samant, a veteran union leader, was murdered by four armed assailants while on his way to work on January 16, 1997.

Arrested on May 3 by Maharashtra’s Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS), DRDO scientist Pradeep Kurulkar is facing charges pertaining to spying and wrongful communication with a female Pakistani Intelligence Operative (PIO) in a suspected case of honey trap.

According to the report, while the mean temperature over Asia in 2022 was about 0.72 degree Celsius above the 1991–2020 average, it was about 1.68 degree Celsius above the 1961–1990 average. This rise in temperatures has had some severe fallouts, including an uptick in the occurrence of extreme weather events.

Confiscating Russian state assets frozen by the United States and Europe could breach international law and set a dangerous precedent, experts say.

In 1942, the U.S. Army gave 32 Hispano families on the Pajarito Plateau 48 hours to leave their homes and land, in some cases at gunpoint, to build the lab that would create the world's first atomic bombs, according to relatives of those removed and a former lab employee.

Recent surveys suggest that after a decade of war, around a third of the Syrian population now has a disability of some kind. The recent earthquake only made this worse, aid organisations say.

The issuing of such visas related to the fact that China disputes India’s unequivocal and internationally accepted sovereignty over Arunachal Pradesh.