The making of a Hindu India
August 26 ,2020
On August 5, India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone for a Hindu temple in the northern city of Ayodhya. This fu...
Pakistan deploys CH-4 drones near Kashmir, India Army look...
August 26 ,2020
Following the equipment list made by Indian Army’s 14 Corps to help them prepare for the long winter haul in Ladakh along the Lin...
India deploys troops with shoulder-fired missiles in key a...
August 26 ,2020
The Indian Army has further bolstered its combat readiness in eastern Ladakh by deploying troops with shoulder-fired missiles in severa...
Pressuring Bangladesh to do more will not help the Rohingy...
August 26 ,2020
Exactly three years ago, on August 25, 2017, the Myanmar military embarked on a "clearance operation" against the Rohingya in the count...
The spillover of militancy in Kashmir went from south to n...
August 26 ,2020
The restive south Kashmir has remained a hotbed of militancy for over the past half a decade. Now, however, north of the Valley has sur...
'India, China working towards handling border problem in p...
August 26 ,2020
India and China are working towards handling their border problem in a “proper manner," and also trying to restore bilateral ties...
Myanmar 2 faces: Embrace insurgents, ostracize Rohingya
August 26 ,2020
Although 11 of Myanmar’s 14 provinces are embroiled in strife, only western coastal Rakhine region has taken communal overtones....
Stand-off with PLA pushes India to go for new snow-free ax...
August 26 ,2020
India’s national security planners are pushing hard to complete an all-weather strategic route to Ladakh that will link Darcha in...
China pushes Pakistan to open trade routes with Afghanista...
August 26 ,2020
The border post in Torkham, Pakistan, in December 2019. The Khyber Pass Economic Corridor project includes construction of a 48km fou...
Bhutan lifts tobacco ban to block COVID spillover from Ind...
August 26 ,2020
Bhutan has relaxed its tobacco ban to combat the coronavirus pandemic, whose most worrisome case entered the Himalayan kingdom f...
India to slowly phase out Huawei, other Chinese vendors fr...
August 26 ,2020
India is gradually phasing out Chinese vendors from its telecoms networks amid rising tensions between the world’s most populous...
Nepal govt mulling to resume domestic flights to hilly dis...
August 26 ,2020
As the government of Nepal is gearing up preparations to resume international air service from next week, it is also mulling to resume...
INS Viraat to head to Alang yard for dismantling
August 26 ,2020
Decommissioned aircraft carrier Viraat, which has been lying at the Naval dockyard in Mumbai, is set to be scrapped at a ship breaking...
JOE BIDEN, KAMALA HARRIS TO BE REGULARLY TESTED FOR CORONA...
August 25 ,2020
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris will be tested regularly for Covid-19, an aide said on Mo...
PROTESTS IN WISCONSIN AFTER US POLICE SHOOT BLACK MAN JACO...
August 25 ,2020
Police fired tear gas on Monday when a protest demanding racial justice in the city of Kenosha in Wisconsin turned violent, as rage bui...
IMRAN ASKS CHINESE ENTREPRENEURS TO ESTABLISH OFFICES IN P...
August 25 ,2020
Emphasising the need for more cooperation between China and Pakistan in all fields, Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday asked Chinese e...
DOZENS OF SURVIVORS RESCUED FROM COLLAPSED BUILDING IN IND...
August 25 ,2020
Rescue workers pulled more than 60 people alive from the rubble of a collapsed building in an industrial town near India's financ...
BIR UTTAM CR DUTTA NO MORE
August 25 ,2020
Chitta Ranjan Dutta, Bir Uttam, popularly known as CR Dutta, one of the sector commanders of the Mukti Bahini during the Liberation War...
CAR BOMB TARGETS AFGHAN ARMY UNIT IN BALKH, 2 DEAD
August 25 ,2020
An Afghan commando unit in Balkh district in Balkh province killed at least one commando and a civilian, according to security sources....
WHO CAUTIOUS ON COVID-19 PLASMA AS US ISSUES EMERGENCY AUT...
August 25 ,2020
The World Health Organisation on Monday was cautious about endorsing the use of recovered Covid-19 patients’ plasma to treat thos...
‘Damage control’ at heart of Chinese Foreign Minister Wang...
August 25 ,2020
China’s foreign minister will begin a five-nation “damage control” tour of Europe on Tuesday and is expected to meet...
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