BHUTAN ORDERS FIRST NATIONWIDE CORONAVIRUS LOCKDOWN AS CAS...
August 11 ,2020
Bhutan ordered its first nationwide lockdown on Tuesday (Aug 11) after a returning resident tested positive for coronavirus after being...
RUSSIA APPROVES WORLD’S FIRST COVID-19 VACCINE, ANNOUNCES...
August 11 ,2020
President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Russia had become the first country in the world to grant regulatory approval to a Covid-...
PM MODI DISCUSSES CORONAVIRUS SITUATION WITH CMS OF 10 STA...
August 11 ,2020
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today held a video conference with Chief Ministers of 10 states to review the Coronavirus situation.
This...
CORONAVIRUS: 33 MORE DIE IN BANGLADESH, TOTAL INFECTED 263...
August 11 ,2020
The Directorate of Health Services has confirmed that 33 more people died of coronavirus infection in the last 24 hours, taking the num...
GLOBAL THINK TANK URGES INDIA'S ALLIES TO PRESS FOR RESTOR...
August 11 ,2020
Global think tank International Crisis Group (ICG) has advised India's international allies to "strongly encourage it to restore Kashmi...
1 KILLED, 2 WOUNDED IN KABUL MAGNETIC MINE BLAST
August 11 ,2020
At least one person was killed and two others were wounded in a magnetic mine blast targeting a vehicle in Kabul city, Kabul police con...
Nepal not helping in managing floods: Bihar, UP CMs tell P...
August 11 ,2020
Chief ministers of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar on Monday informed Prime Minister Narendra Modi of the 'uncooperative attitude' of Nepal in...
Firebrand Buddhist monk gets seat in Sri Lanka parliament
August 11 ,2020
Sri Lankan General Secretary of the Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) Ven. Galagodaatte Gnanasara looks on at the Rukmalgama Temple in Rukmalgama,...
DAILY CORONAVIRUS UPDATES TO STOP FROM AUG 12
August 11 ,2020
Directorate General of Health Services's (DGHS) regular online health bulletin on the coronavirus situation in the country will no long...
LEBANON GOVERNMENT RESIGNS AMID OUTRAGE OVER BEIRUT BLAST
August 11 ,2020
Lebanon's prime minister announced his government's resignation on Monday, saying a huge explosion that devastated the capital and stir...
New JF-17B fighters enter service in Pakistan’s no. 16 'Bl...
August 11 ,2020
JF-17B Twin Seat Fighter
The Pakistani Air Force’s elite No. 16 squadron, known as the Black Panthers, have reportedly induc...
80 CIVILIANS KILLED IN LAST SEVEN DAYS: GOVT DATA
August 11 ,2020
Government data seen by TOLOnews shows that at least 80 civilians were killed and 95 others were wounded in security incidents over the...
FORMER PRESIDENT PRANAB MUKHERJEE CRITICAL AFTER BRAIN SUR...
August 11 ,2020
The condition of former President Pranab Mukherjee, who underwent a surgery to remove a clot in his brain Monday, is critical, ThePrint...
BANGLADESH, NEPAL TO TRADE GOODS ON 225KM RAIL ROUTE
August 11 ,2020
The cabinet has approved a proposal to amend the transit protocol signed between Bangladesh and Nepal to introduce transport of goods b...
GHANI SIGNS DECREE TO RELEASE 400 TALIBAN PRISONERS
August 11 ,2020
President Ashraf Ghani on Monday evening signed a decree to release 400 high-value Taliban prisoners, a source at the Presidential Pala...
SHAH RUKH KHAN'S OFFICE TURNED INTO ICU FOR COVID-19 PATIE...
August 11 ,2020
Shah Rukh Khan's office space in Khar, Mumbai has now been converted into an ICU for critical Covid-19 patients, reported Filmfare.
Ea...
US, China and other rich nations chase COVID-19 vaccine pa...
August 11 ,2020
Wealthy countries are buying up massive doses of expensive and so far unproven candidate vaccines against COVID-19 in the h...
The ‘foreign threats’ to 2020 US election
August 11 ,2020
The statement by the Director of the United States National Counterintelligence and Security Center William Evanina on August 7 giving...
China sanctions 11 US citizens including Marco Rubio and T...
August 11 ,2020
China has placed sanctions on 11 US citizens, including legislators and the heads of several US-based non-governmental organisations, i...
Indian Army wants UAVs, high speed boats, All Terrain Vehi...
August 11 ,2020
The Army’s 14 Corps is looking at procuring different types of UAVs, fast interceptor boats and All Terrain Vehicles (ATVs), besi...
TRUMP ESCORTED FROM MEDIA BRIEFING AFTER WHITE HOUSE SHOOT...
August 11 ,2020
Donald Trump was abruptly escorted out of a press briefing by a Secret Service agent on Monday after an armed suspect was shot outside...
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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
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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...
