MORNING NEWS BRIEF: 10 MARCH
March 10 ,2021
PICTURE OF THE DAYKATHMANDU, NEPAL
A Sadhu takes part in preparations for the annual Hindu festival of Maha Shivratri. Maha Sh...
MORNING NEWS BRIEF: 10 MARCH
March 10 ,2021
PICTURE OF THE DAYKATHMANDU, NEPAL
A Sadhu takes part in preparations for the annual Hindu festival of Maha Shivratri. Maha Shivaratri...
China must boost military capabilities to prepare for conf...
March 10 ,2021
China has projected defence spending growth of 6.8 per cent this year.PHOTO: AFP
China must strengthen its military capabilities t...
'Global Britain' woos ASEAN in fields of former empire
March 10 ,2021
After nearly half a century as part of the European Union or its precursor, the European Economic Community, the U.K. fully exit...
America's awkward allies
March 10 ,2021
US President Joe Biden at a meeting in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on March 5. The President's quest to repair relations with...
Coronavirus offers an opportunity to bring telemedicine to...
March 10 ,2021
The weight of the global pandemic is functionally crippling an already struggling health care system in Pakistan. Hospitals established...
Anil Ambani’s Reliance firm still not ready to showcase LM...
March 10 ,2021
(Representational image) Trials are to be held for nearly 41,000 LMG | Source: IWI website
The much-awaited Army trials for nearly...
India, Uzbek armies to hone counter terror skills
March 10 ,2021
The Dustlik-II exercise between India and Uzbekistan wll take place from March 10-19. | Photo Credit: Twitter@adgpi
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127 Indian Muslims charged with ‘terror’ acquitted after 1...
March 10 ,2021
Mohammad Abdul Hai was one of the 127 Muslims arrested in 2001 [Bilal Kuchay/Al Jazeera]
On the night of December 26, 2001, Mohamm...
India's 'no crime, no killing' policy across border irks B...
March 10 ,2021
A recent "no crime, no killing" statement by the Indian foreign minister during his visit to Dhaka has received harsh criticism from ri...
The RSS’s ubiquitous influence in India
March 10 ,2021
While talking to Kaushik Basu, a professor of the Cornell College Rahul Gandhi remarked,` The Rashtriya Swayemsevak Sangh national volu...
No dissemination of pictures of others on Everest without...
March 10 ,2021
A photograph of a serpentine line of climbers near the summit of Mount Everest in May 2019 went viral.
It highlighted not only the...
India stumbles in race to vaccinate 300m by August
March 10 ,2021
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi receives a dose of the Covaxin coronavirus vaccine in New Delhi on March 1. &cop...
Myanmar’s anti-regime protests go on despite crackdowns an...
March 10 ,2021
Anti-regime protesters in Mandalay marched on Tuesday. / The Irrawaddy
Myanmar’s anti-regime protests in many cities have co...
US proposes Afghanistan government enter interim power-sha...
March 10 ,2021
The Biden administration has proposed to the Afghan government that they enter an interim power-sharing agreement with the Taliban in a...
Iran refutes Indian media reports on Israeli embassy attac...
March 10 ,2021
Iran has reacted strongly to a story in a leading Indian newspaper about a January attack outside the Israeli embassy in New Delhi. On...
India begins deporting more than 150 Rohingya refugees to...
March 10 ,2021
Indian police have detained more than 150 Rohingya refugees found living illegally in the northern territory of Jammu and Kashmir, and...
2020 showed we are resilient: PM
March 10 ,2021
A year has gone by since Bhutan saw its first Covid-19 case, on March 5 2020. Many describe 2020 as a rough year. The world had to figh...
China wants Hambantota Industrial Zone to get off the grou...
March 10 ,2021
China wants the proposed Hambantota Industrial Zone to get off the ground.
Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of China Luo Zhaohui said...
Election Commission decides to notify UML and Maoist Centr...
March 10 ,2021
The Election Commission has scrapped the Nepal Communist Party (NCP) as per the Supreme Court’s Sunday order, which revived the c...
Gilgit-Baltistan demands interim provincial status
March 10 ,2021
The Gilgit-Baltistan legislative assembly has demanded that Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan and the federal government grant the r...
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