Pakistan is often termed as a ‘resilient nation.’ However, Henley & Partners’ recently published 2025 Global Investment Risk & Resilience Index (GIRRI) tells a different story by placing it in the “Least Resilient” category.
November is commemorated as Aviation History Month every year to mark the advancements in the field, while reflecting back on the lessons learnt from the past. Today, the aviation dynamics have marked a notable transformation, spread over numerous digitally linked airways.
The war in Ukraine has transformed into a high-tech siege of attrition where diplomacy has proven futile. From direct Russia-Ukraine talks in 2022 to Alaska Summit in 2025, any attempt to broker a peace settlement has consistently ended in a deadlock.
India has been redefining nationalism along Hindu majoritarian lines since 2014, when the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) assumed power. The Indian military, reimagined as muscular “patriots” instead of professionals tasked to defend the state, has been at the heart of this saffronized redefinition.
A new race to the moon is underway; not merely to erect flags, but to prospect for and extract water and helium-3, establish nuclear power plants and capitalize on the economic and strategic advantages that will shape the balance of power in space for decades to come.
Pakistan has successfully stabilized its economy after mustering considerable effort during a grueling three-year period, which followed the multilayered crisis of 2022-23 that had causal factors ranging from domestic political friction to the global fallout of the Russo-Ukrainian War.
Darhsan Singh Sahsi was shot dead outside his residence on the 29th of October 2025. He was not only a prominent name in the recycled-textile industry of Canada, but a popular Sikh philanthropist back home in Ludhiana, Indian Punjab.
On 30th October 2025, President Donald Trump announced resuming nuclear testing, stating, ‘Because of other countries’ testing programs, I have instructed the Department of War to start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis.
On the cusp of the Bihar state elections, India has once again ramped up its belligerent rhetoric with Defence Minister, Rajnath Singh threatening to target Sindh through Sir Creek, and the Chief of Army Staff Dwivedi claiming that preparations for Operation Sindoor 2.0 have already begun.
Every year, the announcement of the Nobel Prize opens new doors for discovery and advancement.
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