NDB: Uzbekistan Membership, BRICS & Global South Focus
Why in news? On 5 June 2026 Uzbekistan formally became the 10th member of the New Development Bank (NDB) after its parliament ratified the bank’s Ar...
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Why in news? On 5 June 2026 Uzbekistan formally became the 10th member of the New Development Bank (NDB) after its parliament ratified the bank’s Ar...
Why in news? On 20 June 2026 Professor Bimal N. Patel of India was elected as a judge of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) for...
Why in news? The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) in February 2026 issued updates to its public lists. The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, ...
Why in news? In mid‑June 2026 Israeli airstrikes killed dozens of people in southern Lebanon despite a ceasefire, as clashes with the Hezbollah move...
Why in news? At the 11th Our Ocean Conference held in Mombasa in June 2026, sixteen countries adopted the Mombasa Declaration on fisheries transparenc...
Why in news? On 8 June 2026 India and Japan adopted the rules of implementation for their Joint Crediting Mechanism under Article 6.2 of the Paris Agr...
Why in news? Delegations from Armenia and Azerbaijan met in Aghveran, Armenia, for the thirteenth session of their commissions on border delimitation ...
Why in news? Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to visit Slovakia from 14 to 16 June 2026 as part of a European tour that also includes France ...
Why in news? Estonia’s foreign minister and business leaders recently visited India to discuss trade, digital governance and defence cooperation. Th...
Why in news? The Institute for Economics & Peace released its Global Peace Index 2026 in June. The report assesses the level of peace in 163 countries...
Why in news? The 12th meeting of the India–Tajikistan Joint Commission on Trade, Economic, Scientific and Technical Cooperation was held on 10 June ...
Why in news? The World Bank has approved an additional US$9 million to help the Republic of the Marshall Islands cope with soaring fuel costs and prot...