INDIA’S DAILY COVID DEATHS HAVE MORE THAN DOUBLED IN 6 WEE...
July 14 ,2020
The Modi government has repeatedly said how well India has fared against the Covid-19 disease by citing figures such as cases/deaths pe...
Malaysia’s political turmoil rumbles on as new parliamenta...
July 14 ,2020
Malaysia’s Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin pictured at Monday’s parliament session in Kuala Lumpur. Photo: AP
Malaysia...
Israeli court lets NSO keep selling spyware to repressive...
July 14 ,2020
An Israeli court has rejected a request to strip the controversial Israeli spyware firm NSO Group of its export licence over the suspec...
IMF warns of deeper MENA recession and rising social unres...
July 14 ,2020
The economic outlook for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) was already grim as the region struggles to cope with the fallout of t...
Why did the Indian Army decide to buy American rifle?
July 14 ,2020
In February 2019, the Indian Army announced the purchase of SIG716G2 7.62x51mm battle rifles. The SIG716 is meant to complement their p...
Pakistan Navy inducts PNS Yarmook in its fleet
July 14 ,2020
PNS Yarmook
Yarmook, a state-of-the-art 2300-tonne Corvette Pakistan Naval Ship (PNS), has been inducted in the country’s na...
China-India border row: Why Narendra Modi won’t let fire a...
July 14 ,2020
When 20 Indian soldiers were killed in a border skirmish with Chinese troops in a remote Himalayan valley last month, the outcry in Ind...
Bangladesh: Police force faces brunt of virus
July 14 ,2020
Coronavirus fatalities among Bangladesh's police force hit 50 on Monday with one more death in the capital Dhaka.
"A total of 50 colle...
SL hosts first wedding exhibition since COVID-19 outbreak
July 14 ,2020
Early Saturday, young Ranjani Gunatilake, who is planning her wedding in December, traveled to the Waters Edge resort in Sri Lanka's ca...
Rakhine woman files complaint accusing Myanmar military tr...
July 14 ,2020
A local woman in Rakhine State’s Rathedaung Township has filed a complaint with the Sittwe Township Police Station against three...
Maldives to establish air corridor with India
July 14 ,2020
The Maldives has requested to establish a special travel arrangement with India when the Maldives’ border reopens after a hiatus...
What WMFP could bring in Bhutan?
July 14 ,2020
Waste continues to be a growing problem in Bhutan, especially in the bigger population centres. One year after the Waste Manageme...
Taliban car bomb attack on Afghan intelligence compound ki...
July 14 ,2020
Taliban fighters clashed with security forces following a car bomb blast at a government compound in northern Afghanistan, killing 11 p...
Iran-China strategic agreement and its implications for In...
July 14 ,2020
In fresh inputs now available in open source domains, China and Iran are on course to chalk out a comprehensive 25 year strategic partn...
China-India standoff: Can Sri Lanka avoid becoming a pawn...
July 14 ,2020
What with last year’s Easter Sunday terrorist attacks scaring away tourists and then the coronavirus pandemic disrupting travel a...
Bangladesh weighs paying for infrastructure with remittanc...
July 14 ,2020
The novel coronavirus threatens to scupper Bangladesh's run of strong economic growth, which has averaged 7% over the past decade.
But...
Is China planning to deploy Type-15 tank along Indian bord...
July 14 ,2020
China’s collection of over 7,000 tanks, while numerically impressive, is inflated by increasingly outdated iterations of 1950&rsq...
Arunachal killing a ‘planned act of terrorism’ by Indian f...
July 14 ,2020
The NSCN (I-M) on Sunday termed the killing of six of its cadres by a combined team of Assam Rifle, Indian Army and Arunachal Pradesh p...
‘Lord Ram is a Nepalese’: PM Oli ignites new row with stun...
July 14 ,2020
Stoking a potential controversy, embattled Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli on Monday claimed that the “real” Ayodhya lies in...
Envoy denies Maldivian Speaker’s allegation 12 islands awa...
July 14 ,2020
Chinese Ambassador Mr. Zhang Lizhong with Parliament Speaker, former President Mohamed Nasheed (R)
Chinese Ambassador to Maldives,...
Iran has no interest in keeping the US tied down in Afghan...
July 14 ,2020
The seemingly unending US-Iran tussle has spread to a number of areas---Syria, Iraq and Venezuela. In these places, their interests div...
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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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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...
