BSF TROOPER SHOOTS HIMSELF IN J&K’S KUPWARA DISTRICT
August 21 ,2020
A Border Security Force (BSF) trooper reportedly committed suicide on Friday by shooting himself in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kupwara d...
INDIA’S COVID TALLY CROSSES 29L-MARK, TOLL NEARS 55K
August 21 ,2020
With 68,898 new Coronavirus infections in 24 hours, India tally mounted to 2,905,823 on Friday, while the death toll climbed to 54,849...
Facebook’s India Problem
August 21 ,2020
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BANGLADESH GETTING CONNECTED WITH VIETNAM THROUGH SEA ROUT...
August 21 ,2020
A new container shipping service between Chattogram and China will be launched tomorrow that will directly link Bangladesh to Vietnam o...
SAJITH PREMADASA NAMED LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION
August 21 ,2020
Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) leader Sajith Premadasa was today named Leader of the Opposition.
Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena told P...
AFGHANISTAN CLOSE TO A ‘DIGNIFIED PEACE’: GHANI
August 21 ,2020
President Ashraf Ghani on Thursday said that the country is close to reaching a dignified peace, and he called on the Taliban to end th...
TALKS TO START AFTER COMPLETION OF PRISONER SWAP: SOURCES
August 21 ,2020
The intra-Afghan talks will be started three days after the completion of the prisoners’ swap between the Afghan government and t...
PALESTINE PRAISES PM IMRAN'S REMARKS OVER UAE-ISRAEL DEAL
August 21 ,2020
The Embassy of Palestine has welcomed Prime Minister Imran Khan’s recent remarks about the Palestine issue and Pakistan’s c...
TRUMP’S H-1B VISA SUSPENSION BECAME POLITICAL AS IT’S ELEC...
August 21 ,2020
The issue of suspension of work visas such as the H-1B by the Donald Trump administration has “unfortunately” become &ldquo...
US allies must brace for tougher China stance from Biden
August 21 ,2020
Biden is now the official Democratic presidential candidate and is leading President Donald Trump in polls. © Getty Image...
Obama's stark message: America must save itself from Trump
August 21 ,2020
Just four years ago, amid balloons, confetti, dry ice smoke and giant TV screens, Donald Trump struck an authoritarian tone as he accep...
Global outage hits Google, users face e-mail, storage, vid...
August 21 ,2020
Google suffered a seven-hour global outage on Thursday (Aug 20) that affected many of its services, including e-mail, storage, document...
Why US Indo-Pacific strategy will fail
August 21 ,2020
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and US President Donald Trump
Since Donald Trump was elected to the US presidency, he has expan...
China is building surface-to-air missile site at Mansarova...
August 21 ,2020
The Chinese military is reportedly constructing a surface-to-air missile site as well as other infrastructure on the banks of the Mansa...
Despite dispute with Riyadh over Kashmir, Saudi-Pakistan t...
August 21 ,2020
Pakistan's army chief Gen. Qamar Bajwa arrived in Saudi Arabia Monday for talks with the royal leadership. Although it was described as...
Rise of the Rohingya: How refugees can survive the genocid...
August 21 ,2020
From the coronavirus to cyclones, few have faced the litany of scourges confronting the Rohingya people today. While we must assist the...
Fresh Afghan violence kills 34 combatants, civilians
August 21 ,2020
Officials in Afghanistan say clashes between security forces and the Taliban insurgency, and a roadside bomb blast have killed about th...
India-China border talks: Four things you should know
August 21 ,2020
Indian and Chinese officials are holding talks to try to resolve a months-long standoff along their disputed frontier, where the two co...
LAC face-off: Gaps remain, acknowledges India after talks
August 21 ,2020
India and China on Thursday held another round of border talks aimed at breaking the impasse along the Line of Actual Control (LAC), wi...
Pakistan’s FM in China for ‘very important’ two-day visit
August 21 ,2020
Pakistan’s foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Thursday evening arrived in China for a two-day official visit to attend the...
Nepal and India look for a boundary meeting
August 21 ,2020
After two back-to-back high-level engagements between Nepal and India over the past few days, the two neighbours are now looking to hol...
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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...
