FACEBOOK SHARES DATA ON MYANMAR WITH UNITED NATIONS INVEST...
August 26 ,2020
UN investigators said Facebook had played a key role in spreading hate speech that fuelled the violence in Myanmar against the Rohingya...
PARWAN FLOODING DEATH TOLL AT 45, OVER 80 INJURED
August 26 ,2020
Safiullah Warasta, head of Parwan's public health department, said Wednesday that so far 45 have died and over 80 others have been inju...
Why India’s bid to bring Russia into the Indo-Pacific init...
August 26 ,2020
India has a difficult foreign policy problem on its hands. While New Delhi would like a balance against Beijing in the wake of recent t...
Bangladesh, India to launch new riverine trade route on Se...
August 26 ,2020
Bangladesh and India are set to operationalise a new riverine trade route on September 3, when a Bangladeshi vessel will transport a ca...
US INVESTORS URGED TO SET UP COVID-19 VACCINE PLANTS IN BA...
August 26 ,2020
Bangladesh has urged US investors to set up Covid-19 vaccine manufacturing plants in Bangladesh to ensure its availability at lower cos...
PM SEEKS CONSENSUS IN PARLIAMENT FOR NEW CONSTITUTION
August 26 ,2020
Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa has called for consensus in Parliament for a new Constitution.
Speaking at a workshop in Parlia...
Wave of attacks across Afghanistan leaves at least 17 dead
August 26 ,2020
Awave of attacks across Afghanistan on Tuesday left at least 17 dead and wounded scores, officials said, including a Taliban truck bomb...
PARTNERING SRI LANKA PRIORITY IN INDIA’S ‘NEIGHBOURHOOD FI...
August 26 ,2020
Partnering Sri Lanka remains priority in India’s ‘Neighbourhood First’ policy, the Indian High Commission said...
NIA FILES CHARGESHEET AGAINST JEM CHIEF MASOOD AZHAR, 19 O...
August 26 ,2020
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday has filed the charge sheet in the 2019 February Pulwama terror attack case naming ter...
Pakistan urges Taliban to start peace talks with Afghan go...
August 26 ,2020
Pakistan has urged the Taliban to start talks soon with the Afghan government to end decades of conflict, telling visiting officials of...
THREE KILLED, 41 WOUNDED IN TALIBAN TRUCK BOMB IN AFGHANIS...
August 26 ,2020
Taliban set off a truck bomb on Tuesday in an attack on Afghan army commandos, killing three people and wounding 41, the defence minist...
TALIBAN MEETS PAKISTANI OFFICIALS IN ISLAMABAD
August 26 ,2020
A six-member Taliban delegation led by Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar met with Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi and discussed...
US and China reaffirm commitment to Phase 1 trade deal aft...
August 26 ,2020
China's Vice Premier Liu He, left, is pictured with U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, right, and Trade Representative...
Chinese foreign minister says US decoupling doomed to fail
August 26 ,2020
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told his Hungarian counterpart on Monday that decoupling with the US was “unfeasible and unreaso...
2012 Scarborough Shoal Crisis: The Blueprint for Joe Biden...
August 26 ,2020
Joe Biden’s acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention on Thursday mentioned China once, in passing about the manufa...
A tale of misleading names
August 26 ,2020
Prashant Bhushan (L) and Rahul Gandhi
‘Prashant’ means pacific. Prashant Bhushan is anything but. ‘Rahul’...
The making of a Hindu India
August 26 ,2020
On August 5, India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone for a Hindu temple in the northern city of Ayodhya. This fu...
Pakistan deploys CH-4 drones near Kashmir, India Army look...
August 26 ,2020
Following the equipment list made by Indian Army’s 14 Corps to help them prepare for the long winter haul in Ladakh along the Lin...
India deploys troops with shoulder-fired missiles in key a...
August 26 ,2020
The Indian Army has further bolstered its combat readiness in eastern Ladakh by deploying troops with shoulder-fired missiles in severa...
Pressuring Bangladesh to do more will not help the Rohingy...
August 26 ,2020
Exactly three years ago, on August 25, 2017, the Myanmar military embarked on a "clearance operation" against the Rohingya in the count...
The spillover of militancy in Kashmir went from south to n...
August 26 ,2020
The restive south Kashmir has remained a hotbed of militancy for over the past half a decade. Now, however, north of the Valley has sur...
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