International

• World’s First ‘Energy Island’ to be built by Denmark

  February 6, 2021

• Nguyen Phu Trong re-elected as Chief of Vietnam for 3rd term

  February 2, 2021

• Aung San Suu Kyi detained as army grabs power in Myanmar

  February 2, 2021

• Indian-American Bhavya Lal appointed Acting Chief of Staff of NASA

  February 2, 2021

• Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte resigns

  January 29, 2021

• Kaja Kallas to become Estonia’s first female prime minister

  January 28, 2021

• Portugal President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa wins second term

  January 27, 2021

• China overtakes Germany to run world’s largest current account surplus

  January 25, 2021

• Mongolian Prime Minister Khurelsukh Ukhnaa & his Government Resigns

  January 25, 2021

• Joe Biden takes oath as 46th US President

  January 21, 2021

• Netherlands PM Mark Rutte and his entire cabinet quits

  January 20, 2021

• Yoweri Museveni wins sixth term as Uganda’s President

  January 19, 2021

• Pakistan Permits Dubai Royals to Hunt ‘Houbara bustard’

  January 18, 2021

• US designates UAE, Bahrain as ‘Major Strategic Partners’

  January 18, 2021

• UN Rights Body elects Fiji in First Ever Presidential Vote

  January 16, 2021

• Indian-American Garima Verma named digital director in Office of the First Lady

  January 16, 2021

• Donald Trump becomes first U.S. President to be impeached twice

  January 15, 2021

• Sadyr Japarov wins the presidential election in Kyrgyzstan

  January 14, 2021

• Indonesian Jetliner crashes into the sea after takeoff

  January 11, 2021

• Twitter deletes new Trump tweets on @POTUS, suspends campaign account

  January 11, 2021

• Joe Biden names two Indian-Americans in US National Security Council

  January 11, 2021

• Central African Republic president Touadera wins reelection

  January 9, 2021

• Pakistan successfully test fires “Fatah-1” Rocket System

  January 9, 2021

• Indian-American Raj Iyer becomes U.S. Army’s first CIO

  January 8, 2021

• Biden selects Judge Merrick Garland for attorney general

  January 7, 2021

• Alex Ellis appointed new British high commissioner to India

  January 7, 2021

• U.S. Congress passes ‘Malala Yousafzai Scholarship Act’

  January 5, 2021

• Myanmar Navy formally commissions INS Sindhuvir submarine

  December 29, 2020

• Singapore’s ‘Hawker’ Culture gets UNESCO recognition

  December 21, 2020

• ADB launches $9 bn “APVAX” for Developing Countries

  December 12, 2020

• Joe Biden, Kamala Harris jointly named Time’s ‘Person of the Year’ 2020

  December 12, 2020

• Romanian PM Ludovic Orban resigns

  December 11, 2020

• International Mountain Day: 11 December

  December 11, 2020

• Kuwait emir reappoints Sheikh Sabah Al-Khalid as prime minister

  December 10, 2020

• China becomes second nation to plant flag on the Moon

  December 7, 2020

• Bangladesh signs maiden Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA)

  December 7, 2020

• New Zealand declares climate emergency

  December 3, 2020

• Arab Gulf’s first coal-based power plant being developed in Dubai

  November 30, 2020

• Quarantine’ named Cambridge Dictionary’s Word of the Year 2020

  November 28, 2020

• Russia test-fired Tsirkon hypersonic missile in the Arctic

  November 28, 2020

• China launches historic “Chang’e-5” mission to Collect Lunar Samples

  November 25, 2020

• Maia Sandu Wins Moldova Presidential Election

  November 19, 2020

• Japan & Australia signs defence deal to counter China

  November 19, 2020

• Aung San Sui Kyi Party claims to win Myanmar Elections

  November 14, 2020

• 2nd World Health Expo kicks off in Wuhan

  November 12, 2020

• Joe Biden wins the US presidential election

  November 8, 2020

• United States Formally Exits Paris Climate Accord

  November 6, 2020

• Tanzania President John Pombe Magufuli wins 2nd term

  November 6, 2020

• Bangladesh and US launch joint naval exercise CARAT Bangladesh 2020

  November 5, 2020

• Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara wins 3rd term

  November 5, 2020