Sri Lanka to adopt ‘India first approach’ as new policy: F...
August 27 ,2020
Sri Lanka will adopt an “India first approach” as its new foreign policy plank and protect New Delhi’s strategic secu...
India, China troops to take part in Russian exercise, Paki...
August 27 ,2020
Amid a stalemate in talks between New Delhi and Beijing following the military standoff in eastern Ladakh, Indian and Chinese troops wi...
India to get first S-400 unit by end of 2021
August 27 ,2020
Russia has said that the first regiment of S-400 anti-air system will be delivered to India by the end of 2021 and that the delivery pe...
TWO DEAD AS GUNFIRE ERUPTS AT WISCONSIN PROTESTS
August 27 ,2020
An incendiary device goes off in front of a Kenosha Country Sheriff Vehicle as demonstrators take part in a protest following the pol...
BANGLADESH GOVT MULLS SPENDING TK8,000CR TO BUY VACCINE
August 27 ,2020
The government is planning to use Tk8,000 crore of Tk10,000 crore allocated in the current fiscal budget for tackling the Covid-19 pand...
CHINA, US HOLD TRADE TALKS, AGREE TO ‘PUSH FORWARD’ PHASE...
August 27 ,2020
Top Chinese and US negotiators on Tuesday spoke over the phone and agreed to “push forward” their phase one economic deal,...
SRI LANKA AND AFGHANISTAN CONSIDERING DIRECT AIR LINKS
August 27 ,2020
Sri Lanka and Afghanistan are currently working on the possibility of establishing direct air links between both countries.
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UK KEEN ON ENHANCING RELATIONS WITH SRI LANKA
August 27 ,2020
Acting British High Commissioner Lisa Whanstall discussed a range of areas on which Sri Lanka and the United Kingdom could collaborate...
QURESHI 'HOPEFUL' AFTER TALIBAN MEETING, AFGHAN GOVT CRITI...
August 27 ,2020
Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, after holding talks with a delegation from the Taliban in Islamabad on Wednesda...
Malaysia likely to remain closed to tourists into 2021: mi...
August 27 ,2020
Malaysian Tourism Minister Nancy Shukri assumed her role just a week before the government imposed a lockdown. (Photo by Wong...
Talks on Asian trade megadeal RCEP resume in COVID shadow
August 27 ,2020
India pulled out of the RCEP negotiations over concerns that the pact would hurt the South Asian country's domestic producers. (Nikke...
China could weaponise drug exports to retaliate against US...
August 27 ,2020
Chinese economist Li Daokui said Beijing could limit American access to medicines if it was starved further of semiconductors. Photo:...
Is US playing a dangerous spy plane game?
August 27 ,2020
US spy plane activity is on the rise over areas of China and Russia, but this time, China is pushing back — not with missiles, bu...
Nearly 100 killed as flash floods ravage city in Afghanist...
August 27 ,2020
Heavy flooding in northern and eastern Afghanistan has killed at least 100 people, as the deluge ravaged large parts of Charikar city,...
Facebook shares data on Myanmar with UN investigators in g...
August 27 ,2020
Facebook says it has shared data with UN investigators probing international crimes in Myanmar after the lead investigator said the com...
Pakistan PM urges Afghan leaders to 'seize historic opport...
August 27 ,2020
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that Afghan leaders must seize “this historic opportunity to achieve an inclusive po...
India's return to RCEP is in everyone's interests
August 27 ,2020
Narendra Modi, center, and other leaders shake hands at the third RCEP summit in Bangkok in November 2019: hope of India's return has...
US experience with Pakistan may help it solve Turkey’s S-4...
August 27 ,2020
The United States’ experience with Pakistan, once labelled the “ally from hell”, may provide valuable lessons for dea...
Spread of militancy from South to North Kashmir explained
August 27 ,2020
South Kashmir has been a hotbed of militancy for over half a decade. Now, North Kashmir has turned even hotter with some of the deadlie...
Myanmar may have a free election this year, but ethnic cle...
August 27 ,2020
Five years after they voted in their first free and fair elections for the quarter of a century, the people of Myanmar will go to the p...
Pakistan upbeat about prospects of Afghan peace talks
August 27 ,2020
Pakistani officials and Taliban delegates meet in Islamabad, Aug. 25, 2020
Pakistan said Tuesday it was "hopeful" about prospects...
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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...
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