Pakistan must use the new avenues opened by the pandemic
July 1 ,2020
While we are still in the middle of this pandemic and our bodies may be blocked partially because of the partial lockdown, our electrom...
SRI LANKA DISCUSSES EU DECISION NOT TO OPEN BORDERS TO SRI...
July 1 ,2020
Sri Lanka has discussed the EU decision not to open its borders to Sri Lankans.
The Ministry of Foreign Relations noted the decision o...
BANGLADESH-CHINA ECONOMIC TIES TO ENTER NEW STAGE: CHINESE...
July 1 ,2020
With annual GDP growth of more than 6 per cent for many years, Bangladesh will remain one of the most dynamic economies in South Asia a...
PAKISTANI PILOTS QUESTION GOVERNMENT LIST OF 'DUBIOUS' PIL...
July 1 ,2020
The airline pilots and their union have raised questions about a government list of 262 pilots with “dubious” credentials,...
DESPITE REFORM CLAIMS, TALIBAN ‘SEVERELY’ RESTRICTS RIGHTS...
July 1 ,2020
The Taliban in Afghanistan have imposed severe restrictions on rights in areas under their control despite claims of reform, the Human...
HEALTH WORKERS MUST GET COVID-19 VACCINE FIRST: PM MODI
July 1 ,2020
Prime Minister Narendra Modi chairs a high-level meeting in New Delhi on June 30, 2020 to review the planning and preparations for va...
UN’S MIA SEPPO CALLS FOR END TO CONFLICT IN MYANMAR’S RAKH...
July 1 ,2020
UN Resident Coordinator in Bangladesh Mia Seppo has called for a stop to conflicts that escalated in Myanmar's Rakhine state and caused...
Putin appeals to Russians to vote to allow him to stay in...
July 1 ,2020
Vladimir Putin has exhorted fellow Russians to vote for a slew of constitutional amendments that would also let him stay in office unti...
Russia-Taliban: White House officials knew in 2019 - repor...
July 1 ,2020
Top officials in the White House were aware in early 2019 of classified intelligence indicating Russia was secretly offering bounties t...
'It will be a disaster': Palestinians prepare for annexati...
July 1 ,2020
Palestinian farmers living in the occupied Jordan Valley say they are worried about what the future holds with Israel's impending annex...
Myanmar finds troops guilty in Rohingya atrocities court-m...
July 1 ,2020
Three Myanmar military officers have been found guilty by a court-martial investigating atrocities against the Rohingya in conflict-rid...
Nepali families go hungry after coronavirus pandemic hits...
July 1 ,2020
Nepali housewife Shiba Kala Limbu grimaced as she recalled how she went hungry to feed her five-year-old daughter after the coronavirus...
Nigar Johar becomes Pakistan Army's first female lieutenan...
July 1 ,2020
In yet another milestone in her career, Major General Nigar Johar has become Pakistan's first female officer to be promoted to the rank...
India deploys T-90 tanks in Galwan Valley
July 1 ,2020
Signalling that it is all for peaceful restoration of status quo ante in East Ladakh but is also prepared for the worst case scenario,...
With India’s TikTok ban, the world’s digital walls grow Hi...
July 1 ,2020
The global internet is fracturing. And people like Anusmita Dutta are paying the price.
Dutta, 24, joined TikTok three years ago and n...
India is allegedly misreporting nuclear weapon stockpile
July 1 ,2020
The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) has recently launched its annual yearbook 2020 and assessed the current st...
How China has raised its clout in India’s neighbourhood
July 1 ,2020
As India battles China, trouble in another part of India’s northern neighbourhood has flared up. Nepalese Prime Minister Khadga P...
India’s dreams of being next China hit Trumpian nightmare
July 1 ,2020
As Chinese and Indian soldiers face off on the roof of the world, there’s a bigger casualty worth contemplating: the death knell...
‘Stop India from making demographic changes in Kashmir’
July 1 ,2020
International community must take immediate steps to “stop India from changing demography” in Kashmir which is “at th...
Bhutan says no to Covid drug from India
July 1 ,2020
The drug regulatory body of Bhutan has said that Patanjali’s Coronil, which the company’s founder Ramdev has touted as a cu...
latest News
Column
P.K. Balachandran
Colombo Chronicle
Takeaways from the Indian elections: an overview
Although the elections just held in four States and one Union Territory in India were provincial, they had immense national importance because national issues and national conditions impinged on them...
Ikram Sehgal
Karachi Canvas
Pandemic has sharpened geo-political conflicts
The Corona pandemic that the world is struggling with for the second year now has brought home to us some truths about ourselves. The first thing is that...
