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Odisha’s disaster resilience model hogs spotlight at BRICS meet in Puri

Showcasing Odisha’s globally acclaimed disaster management framework and its growing leadership in climate resilience, Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi on Thursday inaugurated the BRICS Disaster Risk Reduction Working Group (DRRG) Technical Meeting in Puri, calling for stronger international cooperation to tackle the growing challenges posed by climate change and natural disasters.

Saudi Reset

For years, Saudi Arabia sold the world a vision that seemed to belong more to speculative fiction than economic planning.

The new broker

China has met with undeniable success in facilitating the long-pending rapprochement between two bitter sectarian rivals across the Persian Gulf i.e., Shia-dominated Iran and Sunni-dominated Saudi Arabia. Ummah (Muslim World) has seen these two powers shadowbox with each other by supporting their respective proxies in countries like Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, Yemen etc., even though they ostensibly hold similar positions on issues like Palestine and Islamophobia

Return of Syria

But the Arab world, in part because of its vast reservoirs of oil, had become a battleground for covetous countries outside the region; a process that was aided by the ambitions of its own leaders.