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There is a manpower crunch in the Ukraine war and Russia is desperate for more heads to join the war that that has shaken up the Western world. The new tactic to recruit is to by offering signing bonus four times as big as a monthly salary and attracting young people to join the army. It’s a three-month contract that most have to sign up to get a huge joining bonus. Advertisements everywhere are offering positions in the army as Russia is short of army recruits.  A recruiter for the military in Chechnya too has also offered a first-month salary of 300,000 rubles ($5,200). As of end of March, 1300 and more soldiers had lost their lives in the war. Ukraine has also lost a lot of lives. Many who have a conscience have quit the war already. These are more of Russian military that Ukrainians. No one is happy with the way there has been loss of lives in large numbers. Looking the way the war has consumed so many lives, Vladimir Lisin, a Russian billionaire, told employees at stee...

The Line of Actual Control (LAC) might not be a conflict zone anymore. As India and China have agreed to come on mutually acceptable conditions, the tension on the Indo-China border might be a thing of the past, after all. In order to maintain stability on ground, both the countries will maintain military and diplomatic channels to discuss a way forward. This will also help them reach a conclusion on the remaining issues amongst themselves. This has been marked as the 15th round of diplomatic talks between the nations. The Corps Commander-level meeting was held at Chushul-Moldo border on the Indian side, nearly two months after the last round of talks took place. While both the countries will hold further talks to resolve the row in eastern Ladakh, it was decided to maintain the stable position in the western sector. The two sides "agreed to maintain the security and stability on the ground in the western sector in the interim. They agreed to maintain dialogue via military and dip...

The effect of war between Russia and Ukraine has affected the Russian oil prices to a large extend. This effect can be seen in Asia and Europe, the countries where Russia exports the oil, as well as other countries like USA. We cant look at American gas prices in isolation; it is important to understand the global supply chain for oil as well.  Oil prices are dependent a lot on the global requirements as the global commodity market is interconnected. Therefore, disturbances in one part of the world affects the overall price scenario. Currently, Russia exports the largest volumes of oil globally. The export of Russia in December 2021 was 8 million oil barrels and oil products, out of this there were 5 million crude oil barrels. Out of these, the export to USA was meagre 90,000 barrels in December 2021, therefore the over-all supply to USA is substantially low. As the nature of business, the oil prices are controlled by the global commodity market. Due to lower supply,...

The current situation arising at the Ukraine borders with Russia’s threating with troops build up has united the leaders in the west. Joe Biden declared a "total unanimity" with the leaders in Europe against the actions of Russia's to build-up troops on the Ukraine borders. Joe Biden also informed that the leaders in Europe have complete agreement with him on the common strategy against current actions of Russia, he shared this after a video call with the European allies on Monday. After the call with leaders from France, Germany, Italy, Poland and the EU, Biden shared with media “I had a very, very, very good meeting - total unanimity with all the European leaders." Additionally, UK has warned Russia, of "swift" and "unprecedented" sanctions if an incursion takes place.   Russia has not shown any indication of change in their stand to invade Ukraine yet.   The leaders from US and Europe agreed on international unity in face of growing Russi...

The world has seen enough military coups and we don't want just another one in Myanmar The political upheavals, the military coups and the civil wars are not the wars that any nation’s people want to fight- because at the end of the day, they destroy everyone’s life. The story of Myanmar is no different, with military coup have robbed the nation of hope of a democracy. The war that Aung San Suu Kyi fought locked up in prison for decades has comes to knot end.   As her cabinet fell off the favour with the military heavy political party, the hope of democracy has once again become a faint light at the far end of the tunnel. Meanwhile, harried people are fleeing from Myanmar to Thailand. On March 28, official reports state that an estimated 3,000 people had crossed the river dividing the two countries into Thailand's Mae Hong Son province following two days of aerial attacks. It is another exodus of people looking for safe haven-something similar to the situation that has tr...