Covid-19 hits Bhutan-India water cooperation
June 26 ,2020
In Baksa district of Assam in north-east India, right next to the Bhutan border, hundreds of farmers held a demonstration this month. T...
NO BANGLADESHI UNIVERSITY IN YOUNG UNIVERSITY RANKINGS
June 26 ,2020
Not a single university from Bangladesh secured a position on the list of the Times Higher Education Young University Rankings 2020 tha...
EVERY COVID-19 PATIENT INFECTS 1.5 OTHERS IN BANGLADESH: E...
June 26 ,2020
Every Covid-19 patient in the country is transmitting the virus to 1.5 other people, public health experts said during an online discus...
Poverty and the Pandemic
June 26 ,2020
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Welcome to South Asia Brief. This week, a closer look at how the coronavirus pandemic th...
COVID-19: BANGLADESH REPORTS 40 NEW DEATHS, 3,868 CASES IN...
June 26 ,2020
With no respite from the coronavirus pandemic in sight, Bangladesh, in the last 24 hours, recorded 40 deaths and 3,868 new cases of the...
ETIHAD AIRWAYS SUSPENDS FLIGHTS FROM PAKISTAN
June 26 ,2020
Etihad Airways on Thursday suspended its flight operations from Pakistan, a day after several passengers who had travelled to Hong Kong...
UN WORKING WITH SRI LANKA TO BUILD ROADMAP TO REVIVE TOURI...
June 26 ,2020
Tourism is a vital economic sector for Sri Lanka, accounting for 5% of its Gross Domestic Product and directly employing 250,000 and in...
US SUPREME COURT RULES AGAINST SRI LANKAN ASYLUM SEEKER
June 26 ,2020
In a win for the Trump administration, the Supreme Court has ruled immigrants seeking asylum cannot appeal decisions made earlier in th...
NO GOOD REASON TO INVEST IN COAL FOR COVID-19 PLAN, SAYS U...
June 26 ,2020
A week after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced his plans to take out coal sector out of ‘decades of lockdown’ with the...
Chinese academic warns India against falling into the well...
June 26 ,2020
On June 22, China and India held the second round of Corps Commanders’-level meeting. This was the first military-level meeting a...
UN ENVOY: AFGHAN CONFLICT DEADLIEST IN THE WORLD FOR CHILD...
June 26 ,2020
Deborah Lyons, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Afghanistan, on Thursday briefed the UN Security Council on the...
ONE CIVILIAN INJURED AS INDIA VIOLATES CEASEFIRE ALONG LOC
June 26 ,2020
Indian troops resorted to unprovoked fire at civilian population along the Line of Control (LoC), leaving a woman critically injured, s...
IMRAN KHAN TELEPHONES GOTABAYA AND BRIEFS HIM ON JAMMU AND...
June 26 ,2020
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan held a telephonic conversation with Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa today. The two leaders d...
MOST ROHINGYAS UNAWARE OF COVID-19: SURVEY
June 26 ,2020
Rohingya camps south of Cox's Bazar in southeast Bangladesh that now make up the world's largest refugee settlement, home to more tha...
COVID-19 FUELLING GLOBAL DRUG ABUSE: UN
June 26 ,2020
Economic fallouts and lockdowns caused by the Covid-19 pandemic may drive more people towards substance abuse as more illicit drugs are...
INDIA’S COVID TALLY JUMPS TO 4,73,105 AFTER REGISTERING 16...
June 26 ,2020
The highest-ever single-day surge of 16,922 COVID-19 cases pushed India’s total tally to 4,73,105 on Thursday whereas the death t...
US Air Force on surveillance missions in South China Sea,...
June 26 ,2020
An illustration shared on Twitter shows the supposed routes taken by the US aircraft. Photo: SCS Probing Initiative
A Chinese thin...
Is there an upside for China in the US-EU tariff row?
June 26 ,2020
China could benefit from a US-Europe trade row over aircraft subsidies as Beijing battles Washington and Brussels on fronts ranging fro...
Israel Announces Partnership With U.A.E., Which Throws Col...
June 26 ,2020
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel announced a new partnership with the United Arab Emirates on Thursday to cooperate in the f...
Cold war with Iran complicates how US deals with China
June 26 ,2020
Almost everyone seems to think China and the US are in a new cold war. This is an easy but misleading shorthand for the relationship &n...
India urges Russia to deliver Igla-S missile system ASAP a...
June 26 ,2020
Amid one of the longest face-offs with China, India has requested that Russia deliver Igla S anti-air missiles, assault rifles, and amm...
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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...
