2 INDIAN SECURITY PERSONNEL KILLED IN PULWAMA ATTACK: REPO...
October 6 ,2020
Indian media reported on Monday that at least two security personnel were killed and five injured in Pulwama area of Indian Illegally O...
GOVT OKAYS INDUCTION OF NUKE-CAPABLE SHAURYA MISSILE AMID...
October 6 ,2020
The Narendra Modi government has quietly approved induction and deployment of 700-km range surface-to-surface supersonic Shaurya strate...
NEW DELHI UN MISSION’S STATEMENT ON UP RAPE, MURDER ‘UNWAR...
October 6 ,2020
India has described the remarks of the UN resident coordinator in New Delhi that the alleged rape and murder in Hathras and Balrampur i...
125 TALIBAN JOIN PEACE PROCESS IN BALKH: ARMY CORPS
October 6 ,2020
125 Taliban fighters joined the peace process in Charkint district of Balkh province, the 209 Shaheen Army Corps said in a statement on...
GHANI, KHALILZAD, GEN. MILLER DISCUSS AFGHAN PEACE IN DOHA
October 6 ,2020
The US peace envoy for Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad tweeted that he discussed Afghan peace with President Ashraf Ghani and Gen. Scott M...
MORNING BRIEF, 06 OCTOBER
October 6 ,2020
Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi is hoping for a landslide win in the upcoming election.
Second COVID spike threatens to disrupt Mya...
CHINESE EMBASSY IN SRI LANKA ATTACKS US ENVOY
October 6 ,2020
The Chinese Embassy in Sri Lanka has accused the US Ambassador to Sri Lanka of severely violating diplomatic protocols during an interv...
SCIENTISTS WHO HELPED IDENTIFY HEPATITIS C VIRUS WIN 2020...
October 6 ,2020
Two Americans and a Briton won the 2020 Nobel Prize for Medicine on Monday for work in identifying the Hepatitis C virus, which causes...
INDIA'S CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS RISE TO 6.69 MILLION
October 6 ,2020
India's total coronavirus cases rose by 61,267 in the last 24 hours to 6.69 million on Tuesday morning, data from the health ministry s...
GHANI IN DOHA TO RAISE INTL SUPPORT, NOT INTERVENE: DELEGA...
October 6 ,2020
President Ashraf Ghani visited Kuwait and Qatar on Monday, meeting with leaders from both countries, discussing bilateral ties as well...
Malaysia’s PM quarantines after minister tests positive fo...
October 6 ,2020
Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin chairs a special meeting of the National Security Council on Coronavirus measures on Saturd...
Saudi business leaders ask citizens to boycott everything...
October 6 ,2020
In the latest development, the head of Saudi Arabia’s Chambers of Commerce has called for a boycott of Turkish products amid repo...
People don't trust the facts about Trump's coronavirus. Is...
October 6 ,2020
The president is not really sick. He is very sick. He is pretending. He is not pretending. That was his body double in the car. He may...
Nobel nomination is recognition for Afghan women fighting...
October 6 ,2020
Fawzia Koofi.
Afghanistan’s first woman Deputy Speaker in Parliament Fawzia Koofi talks about being nominated for the Nobel...
India’s Air Defence Command to be announced soon
October 6 ,2020
Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria
In view of the growing tensions between India and China along the Line of A...
India may soon acquire Russia's high altitude Sprut light...
October 6 ,2020
India is in advanced talks with Russia to acquire a newly developed light tank that could be useful in high altitude areas like the Lin...
An uneasy quiet in Kashmir is no guarantee that all is wel...
October 6 ,2020
A little over a year ago, on 12 August 2019, the Indian Express carried an article that I had written on the annulment a week earlier o...
China-Bangladesh relations stronger than ever before
October 6 ,2020
PM Sheikh Hasina with Chinese President Xi Jinping
Over the past 45 years, the relationship between China and Bangladesh...
Does Pakistan have a plan B for Afghanistan?
October 6 ,2020
Dr Abdullah Abdullah, the head of Afghan High Peace Council for National Reconciliation, was in Pakistan recently. This was his first v...
US, India seek to press Sri Lanka into the Quad
October 6 ,2020
Mahinda Rajapaksa and Narendra Modi (R)
The virtual summit between Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Sri Lankan counterp...
Despite uneasy calm, fears of a spark at LAC remains a con...
October 6 ,2020
As a tense “standstill” between Indian and Chinese armies along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Ladakh drags on, the po...
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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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