Social Media and Counter-Terror Operations
Social media platform usage during course of counter-terror operations can lead to adverse fallouts.
- Shashank Ranjan |
- December 01, 2023 |
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Social media platform usage during course of counter-terror operations can lead to adverse fallouts.
There is now a forward-looking embrace of science and technology cooperation in India–US relations.
ChatGPT’s potentially exploitative use by violent non-state actors can undermine human and state security.
Hamas and its affiliates, along with other hacktivist groups, have conducted numerous cyber operations against Israeli targets.
Chinese scientists successfully carried out tasks at the North Pole onboard their first domestically built polar ice-breaker Xuelong 2.
ASEAN’s recent initiatives towards the Indo-Pacific help cement its centrality further while maintaining the grouping’s autonomy.
Southeast Asian nations’ responses to the ongoing violent conflict between Israel and Hamas are influenced by historical, domestic, demographic and strategic factors.
Japan and China are utilising parallel strategies to influence each other and the world over the latest fault-line in their contentious relationship.
There is a need to formulate a national strategy to tackle ransomware threat as this cybercrime affects governments, businesses and individuals.
Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan’s visit to India from 8 to 10 October 2023 has injected fresh impetus into India–Tanzania bilateral ties.
Russian influence in the Central African Republic (CAR) raises questions on the Economic Community of Central African States’ mediation efforts in Gabon, led by the President of CAR.
Nepali Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal’s visit to China on 22 September 2023 assumes significance, given the growing engagement of China in many sectors of Nepalese economy in the last few years.
Ladakh's ecological balance has been disrupted due to climate change, altering weather patterns and water flow, which are leading to frequent perilous floods.
It remains to be seen if the UNESCO will become another platform for US–China contentions or realise the lofty goals as enshrined in its constitution.
The G20 New Delhi Leaders’ Declaration asserts that the ‘use or threat of use of nuclear weapons is inadmissible’.
The East Asia Summit remains critical to advancing closer regional cooperation, at a time of a rapid geo-political and geo-economic changes.
Prime Minister Modi and President Biden recommitted to expeditiously work towards supporting the fulfilment of the GE-HAL jet engine deal, at the meeting ahead of the New Delhi G20 Summit.
China’s security engagement in Africa has grown to encompass aspects relating to police and law enforcement cooperation, conflict mediation, and professional military education.
Sweden’s presidency contributed significantly to addressing the EU’s economic and security challenges.
The JCPOA revival, to some extent, will continue to depend on the US’s stand on the IRGC’s designation.



