by Mahima Chhaparia | Mar 1, 2023 | Affaires, Safety, Situation Room
On 24 February 2022, Russia launched a full-scale invasion into Ukraine. It is the largest armed conflict in Europe since World War II. As tanks rolled in, people in Ukraine fled to war bunkers. Thousands were killed and millions others fled to neighboring...
by Harshitha Paderu | Feb 15, 2023 | Safety, Situation Room, Travel
On February 6, at 04:17 hours, an earthquake of magnitude 7.8 struck the town of Pazarcık in Kahramanmaraş, Turkey. This was followed by another earthquake or an aftershock of magnitude 7.7 at around 13:24 hours, with the epicentre near Gözpınar and Ekinözü in...
by Zaid Mughal | Jan 12, 2023 | Safety, Situation Room
Bilateral tensions between Serbia and Kosovo amplified as a consequence of a series of protests by ethnic Serbs living in North Kosovo. The tensions could have opened up a new front and rekindled the conflict in the Balkans. The ethnic Serbs blocked the roads with...
by Akshat Sharma | Oct 6, 2022 | Safety, Situation Room, Travel
Travel Risk: HIGH Licensed under Creative Commons 4.0 Brief introduction to the situation There have been large-scale protests across multiple provinces in Iran after Mahsa Amini, a Kurdish-Iranian woman travelling to Tehran, died in custody following her detention by...
by Nischitha Paderu | Oct 2, 2022 | Situation Room, Travel
Travel Risk Level: HIGH Source: CNN Hurricane IAN, one of the most fierce storms to have ever struck mainland United States, made landfall near Punta Gorda on September 29. With a maximum sustained windspeed of 233 km/h, Florida’s Gulf Coast has been battling the...
by Akshat Sharma | Sep 13, 2022 | Safety, Situation Room, Travel
Travel Risk: HIGH Picture Courtesy: RomanDeckert Brief introduction to the situation Lebanon is situated on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. Its capital is Beirut, and it is made up of a small geographic area. Lebanon is currently facing a public sector...