AFGHANISTAN TO RESUME DOMESTIC, INTL FLIGHTS IN A WEEK
June 17 ,2020
Speaking at a press conference on Tuesday preceding a NATO meeting of defense ministers, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said t...
PAKISTAN’S FM SHRUGS OFF INDIA’S EXPECTED ELECTION AS UNSC...
June 17 ,2020
Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Monday sought to tamp down fears about India’s imminent election as a non-permanent memb...
UK TO INCREASE TRADE AND INVESTMENT TIES WITH SRI LANKA
June 17 ,2020
Alan Gemmell OBE has been appointed as the new UK Trade Commissioner for South Asia to bolster trade and investment relations with the...
DEXAMETHASONE HAILED AS ‘MAJOR BREAKTHROUGH’ IN TREATING S...
June 17 ,2020
A cheap and widely-used steroid called dexamethasone has become the first drug shown to be able to save lives among COVID-19 patients i...
Sino-US ties at a crossroads
June 17 ,2020
The confrontation instigated by the United States with China continues to intensify. The pandemic has escalated tensions between them t...
Trump signs executive order on police reform after weeks o...
June 17 ,2020
US President Donald Trump, facing criticism that his policies and inflammatory rhetoric have aggravated a racial divide in the United S...
The shape of Asia's new cold war
June 17 ,2020
In retrospect, the decision by the Chinese Communist Party to impose a new security law on Hong Kong seems to have been preordained. Hi...
India headed for hot border on northern side with few dipl...
June 17 ,2020
On Tuesday, India reported the first combat fatalities along the Line of Actual Control since 1975, announcing that three Indian Army p...
Behind Pakistan's strategic shift towards Afghanistan
June 17 ,2020
With the geopolitical landscape of our region changing fast, many optimists say they are able to see a shift in Pakistan’s geostr...
Why is India eager to talk borders with China but not Nepa...
June 17 ,2020
Nepal Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli
Nepal’s parliament has endorsed a constitutional amendment bill tabled by the government...
Rohingya genocide: Myanmar’s Facebook records case may be...
June 17 ,2020
Myanmar military commander-in-chief, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing
The lawyers prosecuting Myanmar for the alleged geno...
A crisis is brewing between India and China, but this time...
June 17 ,2020
It isn’t entirely clear what is taking place along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) that separates Chinese and Indian-controlled...
Tensions between Iran and Afghanistan rise over police kil...
June 17 ,2020
Tensions between the Afghan and Iranian governments escalated further on Tuesday as Iran issued a warning to Kabul about the many prote...
93% Muslims view Hindus favourably, but only 65% Hindus vi...
June 17 ,2020
While 93 percent of Muslims viewed Hindus favourably, only 65 percent Hindus viewed Muslims in a positive light, reveals a new study....
Bangladesh to deploy more troops as virus deaths peak
June 17 ,2020
Bangladesh will boost army deployment to ensure stricter implementation of safety guidelines as coronavirus deaths hit a record high on...
UN chief asks India to end torture, use of pellet guns aga...
June 17 ,2020
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has voiced deep concern over the continued use of pellet guns against children by the Indian secu...
Sayed Zulfikar Bukhari ranked among the best dressed South...
June 17 ,2020
Sayed Zulfikar Bukhari, the Special Assistant to PM Imran Khan for Overseas Pakistanis and Tourism is among the five best dressed South...
Sri Lanka set to open airports before August
June 17 ,2020
The Sri Lankan government is aiming to open its international airports before August 1 as no community transmission of the COVID-19 has...
Myanmar independence hero to appear on all banknotes
June 17 ,2020
Myanmar will introduce the image of independence hero General Aung San on banknotes of all denominations, according to the Central Bank...
India says 20 soldiers killed on disputed Himalayan border...
June 17 ,2020
Twenty members of India’s armed forces have been killed in a “violent face-off” with Chinese soldiers on their disp...
Bangladesh eyes foreign firms leaving China
June 17 ,2020
Bangladesh has initiated groundwork to attract investments from large foreign firms which are planning to move out of China to reduce s...
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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...
