South Asian Digests
Trial of Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi gets unde...
June 15, 2021
Indian man believed to have headed ‘world’s l...
June 15, 2021
Pakistan outperforms India in manpower export...
June 15, 2021
Bangladesh cricketer Shakib suspended after u...
June 14, 2021
Nepal has not issued any formal ban order aga...
June 10, 2021
Gunmen kill 10 mine-clearance workers in Afgh...
June 10, 2021
Indian Army Chief Gen MM Naravane speaks to s...
May 31, 2021
India approves opening of first consulate in...
May 28, 2021
Top News
India’s Democracy Is the World’s Problem
June 14, 2021
| By: Jonah Blank
When the G7 group of rich democracies assembles this weekend in southwest England, it will discuss issues including COVID-19, taxes, and climate change. One item overhanging the formal agenda, however, will be the global deterioration of democracy itself, and the nation on which this question may hinge won’t be any of the hosts, but a guest invited to this year’s confab: India. Democracy’s fate there may determine its fate throughout the world. At the moment,...
Morning Brief
MORNING NEWS BRIEF: 12 JUNE
PICTURE OF THE DAY
MUMBAI, INDIA
The south-west monsoon set in over Mumbai and its neighbouring areas on Wednesday, the MeT department said, as heavy rains lashed the city and suburbs since early morning, causing water-logging at many places and...
Reports
Pakistan FM accuses previous gov’t of ‘mishandli...
June 15, 2021
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By: SAM Staff
Pakistan’s foreign minister has blamed the country’s previous government for “mishandling” the case of Kulbhushan Jadhav, an Indian national convicted for spying by a Pakistani military court four years ago, as legislation related to the cases passes up to Pakistan’s Senate.
Speaking to the media...
EU Parliament resolution puts spotlight on Sri L...
June 15, 2021
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By: Meera Srinivasan
A recent resolution adopted by the European Parliament, urging the EU Commission to consider temporary withdrawal of the GSP+ status given to Sri Lanka, has put the spotlight back on the country’s human rights situation, prompting Colombo to defend its “multifaceted progress” in a response...
China, India, Pakistan expanding nuclear arsenal...
June 15, 2021
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By: Dinakar Peri
China is in the middle of a significant modernisation and expansion of its nuclear weapon inventory, and India and Pakistan also appear to be expanding their nuclear arsenals, according to Swedish think tank Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) Year Book 2021 released on Monday....
Elderly Muslim man attacked in Ghaziabad, assail...
June 15, 2021
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By: SAM Staff
An elderly Muslim man was attacked in Loni, in Uttar Pradesh’s Ghaziabad district, on June 5 while on his way to offer prayers at a mosque.
According to NDTV, a group of men kidnapped Abdul Samad from an autorickshaw and dragged him to a hut...
SAM Special
The Myanmar challenge to Asean
June 15, 2021
| By: Choi Shing Kwok
Since the five-point consensus was reached at the special Asean Summit in Jakarta on April 24, the process of implementing it has run into many obstacles, both inside and outside Myanmar.
The first blow was struck by the National Unity Government (NUG), which represents a group of parliamentarians elected in the elections last year.
Soon after the meeting, the NUG came out to decline participation in the Asean process and reiterate that the grouping should...
Issues
BJP would have called BR Ambedkar, father of Ind...
June 15, 2021
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By: SAM Staff
The BJP would have called even BR Ambedkar, the father of Indian Constitution, as pro-Pakistan had he been alive, PDP president Mehbooba Mufti said on Sunday, amidst criticism of Congress leader Digvijaya Singh over his remarks on Article 370.
Mehbooba said Article 370, which gave...
India should scrap paper money altogether
June 15, 2021
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By: William Pesek
As governments around the globe scramble to keep pace with China's digital currency project, it is time to worry about laggard India.
It is hard to think of a top-10 economy with more to gain from phasing out paper money. India's sprawling and cacophonous financial...
‘Betrayed’: The Afghan interpreters abandoned by...
June 14, 2021
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By: SAM Staff
Ameen remembers the summer day in early 2009 when his young children and nephews were playing in the lush green field beside the family farm in Khost province as he watched over them. He had returned from Kabul for a short visit to help his...
A year after Galwan clash, China beefing up posi...
June 14, 2021
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By: Dinakar Peri
A year since the violent clash between the Armies of India and China in the Galwan Valley in eastern Ladakh, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has built additional accommodation in the depth areas along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) on its side and...
Opinion
G7 and China: Fault lines in the world order
June 15, 2021
| By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
Defence
India sets eyes on Russian Sprut light tanks t...
June 15, 2021
| By: Shehesh Alex Philip
Rajnath Singh approves nearly Rs 499 crore for...
June 14, 2021
| By: SAM Staff
Editor`s Choice
India’s Covid-19 tsunami
By: Shashi Tharoor
It is humbling when a columnist must retract his words soon after penning them. Just two months ago, after India rushed millions of doses of...
Quad lacks moral authority in South China Sea
By: Bhim Bhurtel
At the virtual summit of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue held on March 12, the Quad leaders reiterated their firm commitment that the rules-based international order...
Indonesia seeks to broker Taliban peace deal...
By: Randy Mulyanto
Former Indonesian Vice President Jusuf Kalla said he has traveled to Afghanistan and Qatar several times in recent months to help broker a peace deal...
Focus
Myanmar
Myanmar’s coming revolution
June 14, 2021
| By: Thant Myint-U
Myanmar is at a point of no return. The army’s February coup, meant to surgically shift power within the existing constitutional framework, has instead unleashed a revolutionary energy that will be nearly impossible to contain.
Over the past four months, protests and strikes have continued despite the killing of more than 800 people and the arrest of nearly 5,000 more. On April 1, elected members of parliament from Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for...
Pakistan is an essential partner in any peace process in Afghanistan. Pakistan will play an important role in any political settlement in Afghanistan.
Lloyd Austin, Defence Secretary at his US Senate confirmation hearing.
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