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The armies of the world’s two most populous nations are locked in a tense face-off high in the Himalayas, which has the potential to escalate as they seek to further their strategic goals. The Indian Army and the Chinese military are moving heavy equipment and weaponry including artillery and combat vehicles to their rear bases close to the disputed areas in eastern Ladakh. Construction activity in Ngari Gunsa Airbase (Source : https://www.defenseworld.net/news/27068/Massive_Construction_Activity_near_Sino_Indian_Border__Chinese_Jets_Seen#.Xt3JNDozbIV) Satellite images show massive construction activity including the addition of a second taxi-track to position helicopters or combat aircraft, at a high altitude Chinese airbase Ngari Gunsa which is located just 200 kilometres away from the Pangong Lake. Close up of taxi track (Source : https://www.businesstoday.in/current/economy-politics/china-starts-construction-activities-near-pangong-lake-amid-border-tensions-with-india/story/405114....

Small border distance but 20 hours ahead Time Difference The 19th century was an era of standardization. As railways were connecting whole landmasses, countries were supplanting nearby occasions with an arrangement of hour-wide time regions. As sea navigation became more common, and since there was no common time agreed, sailors faced a lot of difficulties. As a result, many countries decided to standardize on a system of navigation and maps. They all came together and met in Washington DC for the International Meridian Conference to accept on standard time. There were 41 delegates from 25 countries who attended the International Meridian Conference. Many countries including the US, even before the Conference started using Greenwich as the basis for their time zone system. Additionally, 72% of the world's trade at the time relied upon ocean graphs, which had just embraced Greenwich as the prime meridian. So, countries just adopted the British standard time as an official at the Mer...

maximum time difference Earth's largest time difference: Time Zone may be used to refer to the local time of a country or a region. Time zones in the world are obtained from the UTC. If each time zone were 1 hour apart, there would be 24 time zones in the world. The clocks throughout the World are not adjusted for Daylight savings as all are under the regulation of a Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).  UTC is 0 hours which means any area on the Earth can only be ahead (+) or behind (-) the UTC. We know that there are 24 hours in a day, so we may think that the biggest time difference between two points on the earth would only be 24 hours. But, according to the standard time (UTC) which we follow, the biggest time difference is 26 hours. The reason behind this is because of the man-made imaginary International Date Line (IDL) which was agreed in 1884 at the International Meridian Conference (IMC). The IDL serves as the "line of demarcation" between two consecutive calendar ...

The COVID-19 pandemic is expected to cause severe impact on the economy than the 2007-2008 recession. Certain steps, maybe in the form of policies have to be taken by the Government. Extending the deadline the financial year for 2019-2020 might also be a good idea as it will act as a cushion for the companies. Several countries have already taken this decision. For the rest of this article I will explain the remaining possible targeted policies with India as an example. India extended its Financial Year 2019-2020 deadline from April 31, 2020, to June 30,2020. But extending the deadline alone will not create a major change. Certain more steps have to be taken. Since, already India has been fighting with stagflation for nearly a year it will be very difficult for the Government to take any policies without further investigation. Stimulus packages were announced by the Indian government amounting to nearly rupees 20 lakh crores, but unfortunately it failed to meet the demand side obligati...

Korean War history and the 38th parallel North Korea is an isolated nation that proclaims its southern neighbor South Korea as its enemy. North Korea blew up its joint liaison office with South Korea on 16 June 2020, in a dramatic and carefully planned display of rancor toward its southern neighbor. Till the end of the Second World War, there was no separate North and South Korea and they were collectively called Korea. In this article, we will see what led to the separation of Korea and the Korean War, which was fought after the separation in detail. Korean war led to the split of North and South Korea Separation of Korea At the end of the Second World War, Korea — which had formerly been occupied by the Japanese — was divided along the 38th Parallel (38 degrees North) by the United States (US) military planners Dean Rusk and Charles Bonesteel, as a temporary division of the country. But the onset of the Cold War (rivalry that developed after World War II between the US and the So...

Protectionism reduces current account deficit COVID-19 Recession : Things get costlier or cheaper ? The COVID — 19 recession, could be a major global recession which arose as an economic consequence of the continued Coronavirus pandemic. Since World War 2, coronavirus pandemic could cause the worst global recession. Most of the countries saw a falling GDP from January to March 2020, because the economic impact of coronavirus began to hit. For April to June official figures haven’t been published yet, but they’re likely to point out even bigger falls, this can mean the second quarter of negative growth, confirming that much of the globe is in recession. In such a situation, what can a government do to beat its economy from such an oversized recession? In this article, we are going to know whether we can use protectionist policies during this recession. Protectionism The practice of following protectionist trade policies is Protectionism. It is an economic policy that is imposed by the g...