South Asian Digests
State of China's Ambassador to Bangladesh: ‘C...
August 5, 2022
MoU signed for carrying Indian POL/LPG throug...
August 5, 2022
ASEAN to rethink peace plan if Myanmar execut...
August 4, 2022
Sri Lanka president seeks unity government to...
August 1, 2022
COAS Bajwa seeks US help for immediate releas...
July 30, 2022
Nepalese climber Sanu Sherpa sets record atop...
July 22, 2022
Afghanistan's Taliban hold first major cleric...
July 2, 2022
India dethrones UK to become strongest source...
May 24, 2022
Top News
Govt invites inflation
August 9, 2022
| By: SAM Staff
When all the countries of the world have been trying hard to come out of the grip of high inflation rate, the Bangladesh government at that very moment invited inflation by hiking the fuel oil price at a record margin of up to 51 per cent.
This record price hike will stoke the inflation rate more and bring sufferings for the low income people.
Inflation is being considered as the biggest problem for the global...
SOUTH ASIAN BRIEF
Is Pakistan’s new government on shaky ground?
Welcome to South Asia Brief.
The highlights this week: Pakistan’s new government suffers another setback, Sri Lanka’s Parliament appoints Ranil Wickremesinghe as president, and Bhutan announces changes to its tourism policy.
What’s Next for Pakistan’s New Government?
The opposition Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party won 15 of 20 seats in by-elections in Punjab, Pakistan’s most populous province, on...
Reports
Making Sense of the Nepal Army’s Engagement With...
August 6, 2022
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By: SAM Staff
For the past 20 years the Nepal Army chief has been a regular presence at the annual Indo-Pacific Chiefs of Defense (CHODs) conference. Very few Nepalis were aware of the powwow, held under the aegis of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command. But it was a different...
India’s trade deficit hit high of $31 billion in...
August 5, 2022
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By: Shubham Batra
New Delhi: Financial year 2022-23 is creating one headwind after another for the Indian economy. First, it was the high fiscal deficit, then the fall in rupee, and now the current account deficit, a large portion of which is the rising trade deficit.
India’s preliminary data...
Assam is becoming hotbed of ‘jihadi activities’,...
August 5, 2022
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By: SAM Staff
Guwahati: Assam has become a hotbed of “jihadi activities” with five modules having links with Bangladesh-based terror outfit Ansarul Islam busted in five months, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Thursday.
Six Bangladeshi nationals belonging to Ansarul Islam had entered Assam to indoctrinate youths, and...
ASEAN to host ministerial talks amid Myanmar cri...
August 4, 2022
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By: CLIFF VENZON
PHNOM PENH -- The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) will host its annual ministerial meetings starting Wednesday (today) to tackle the deepening regional crisis in Myanmar and other security issues.
The talks in the Cambodian capital will also include external partners, such as the...
SAM Special
Similarities and differences between the Taiwan and Ukraine crises
August 5, 2022
| By: P.K. Balachandran
Colombo: The US-China standoff over House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s provocative visit to Taiwan can be compared with the conflict between the US and Russia over Ukraine. There are similarities as well as differences between the two episodes.
Both conflicts began with the US using a State on the border of a rival power to pose a direct security threat to the latter. It was Ukraine in the case of rival Russia, and Taiwan...
Issues
Afghanistan is now an Asian problem
August 5, 2022
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By: SAM Staff
A year ago, the Taliban took over Afghanistan as the U.S. completed its botched withdrawal from the country. Since then, other global crises, particularly Russia's aggression against Ukraine, have moved the Afghan issue to the back of the world's conscience.
NATO, previously a key player...
Why the Enforcement Directorate is being seen as...
August 5, 2022
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By: Bharat Bhushan
Is it any wonder that Sanjay Raut, Shiv Sena MP, skipped summons twice to present himself before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) before he was raided and detained on Sunday? The truth is that the ED, already a feared institution, has been further empowered in cases relating to the Prevention...
Load-shedding is fine, if...
August 5, 2022
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By: Asif Nazrul
A picture on Facebook of bullock carts on Colombo's streets brought to mind Sri Lanka's past glory. I visited the country several times for a human rights organisation. There were rows of brightly lit five-star hotels parallel to the sea beach along the road leading...
Asian financial crisis lessons offer recovery pa...
August 4, 2022
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By: SAM Report
Ranil Wickremesinghe, who rescued Sri Lanka's economy from recession as prime minister in 2002, is back, now as executive president. This time around, his challenge is far greater.
Wickremesinghe has taken office with supplies of fuel and electricity scarce due to the country's lack of...
Interview
Turkish entrepreneurs show increased interest...
July 25, 2022
| By: SAM Staff
Defence
India’s new hypersonic relies on Russian tech
August 5, 2022
| By: Gabriel honrada
India’s homemade carrier ready to flex and flo...
August 5, 2022
| By: Gabriel honrada
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Focus
India
TMC may have cacked Partha Chatterjee, but its problems with corruption run deep
August 1, 2022
| By: Snigdhendu Bhattacharya
Kolkata: It took fewer than five days for West Bengal’s ruling party, the Trinamool Congress (TMC), to change its stance on senior party leader and heavyweight minister Partha Chatterjee, arrested on July 23 on charges of money laundering.
From ‘innocent until proven guilty’ a few hours after arrest, he became ‘guilty until proven innocent’ by July 28.
The scam had hit the party that hard.
Resultantly, it marked the first instance in the 11 years of...
It is going to get worse before it gets better. It is going to be a painful few years ahead.
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