Is China telling Modi something?
June 24 ,2020
What happened on the India-China border last week, and why did it happen? For the first time since he took office in May 2014, nearly a...
21st century Great Game in Kashmir
June 24 ,2020
That they go together is by now amongst those Chinese words of wisdom, which have so often been quoted that they have lost their sheen....
Nepal-India tussle continues with Kathmandu's new claims o...
June 24 ,2020
A few days after claiming territories in the Indian state of Uttarakhand, Nepal is now eyeing areas in Bihar, with which it shares a 70...
India lifting arms rules at border endangers its own secur...
June 24 ,2020
The Chinese army has conducted a live-fire drill in Tibet following a deadly clash on the Himalayan border, Chinese state media revea...
China’s art of war in Sri Lanka
June 24 ,2020
Sri Lanka received another round of Chinese-made face masks and medical equipment to combat the coronavirus in mid-June, which is furth...
‘Fake news’: China dismisses Indian media reports it lost...
June 24 ,2020
Beijing has dismissed Indian media reports that at least 40 Chinese soldiers were killed in last week’s border conflict, even as...
Chinese, Indian defense ministers 'likely' to meet in Mosc...
June 24 ,2020
Chinese State Councilor and Defense Minister Wei Fenghe is expected to attend Russia's Victory Day parade in Moscow on Wednesday, and s...
Announcement of film on Muslim freedom fighter from Kerala...
June 24 ,2020
The announcement of a film on the life of Variyamkunnath Kunjahammed Haji, a freedom fighter in the Malabar region of Kerala who fought...
H-1B: What you need to know about Donald Trump’s executive...
June 24 ,2020
US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday suspending new applications for a number of foreign worker visas until th...
India asks Pakistan to reduce high commission strength by...
June 24 ,2020
In yet another sign of deepening tensions between the two nuclear-armed neighbours, India has decided to reduce the staff strength of P...
2 Bangladeshi youths land a job at Google, Microsoft
June 24 ,2020
Tanvir H Uday (on left) and Akkas Uddin Jisan (on right)
Two Bangladeshi youths have got a job in the world's two top technology c...
Nepal’s ruling party to meet Wednesday to decide on MCC
June 24 ,2020
A Tuesday meeting of the Nepal Communist Party's two chairs-KP Sharma Oli and Pushpa Kamal Dahal-has finalised the agenda for Wednesday...
More children getting 'killed, maimed' in Myanmar conflict
June 24 ,2020
The escalation in fighting between Myanmar's military and ethnic Rakhine rebels in recent months has triggered a surge in violence agai...
Maldives to resume tourism on July 15
June 24 ,2020
Maldives' borders will be opened on July 15, AVAS has learnt.
The tourism dependent island nation's borders were closed to tourists in...
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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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