On September 12, 2025, 142 nations voted in favor of a two-state solution, 10 against, and 12 abstained — within 24 hours of the Israeli prime minister declaring that Palestine would never be a state. Major countries, including Saudi Arabia, France, and India, have endorsed the resolution, acknowledging Palestinian suffering. This raises a critical question: Will the adoption of the two-state resolution change the Israel–Palestine conflict, or will the cycle of violence continue?
Can we, humans, coexist with wildlife? At least in India, the answer may oscillate between ‘yay’ and ‘nay’.
50 Years of the Biological Weapons Convention: Tracking the Journey (Editor: Ajey Lele, Pentagon Press/MP IDSA, 2025) is a tribute to the Biological Weapons Convention (hereinafter referred to as the BWC), in its Golden Jubilee year (2025), which has been “a foundational pillar of global disarmament and non-proliferation.” The book has five sections, comprising 14 chapters contributed by renowned Indian and international researchers, scholars, academicians, scientists

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Ozgur Altun (Abu Yasir al-Turki), a key operative of the Islamic State Khurasan Province (hereafter, IS-Khurasan), was apprehended on June 1, 2025, at an undisclosed location in Balochistan, near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. His arrest came as a result of a joint operation conducted by Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and Turkiye’s intelligence organization, Milli İstihbarat Teşkilatı (MİT) (Anadolu Agency, June 1).
Recently, during the conference titled “Raksha Navachar Samvaad: Interaction with iDEX Startups,” held ahead of the National Conference on Defence Innovation at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi on October 7, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh stated that the nature of warfare is rapidly evolving. He noted that future conflicts will be shaped by artificial intelligence (AI), autonomous systems, drones, quantum computing, and directed-energy weapons. Singh urged innovators and startups to pioneer cutting-edge defence technologies and make India a global leader in innovation.
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