QUAD SUMMIT TODAY, FOCUS ON VACCINE SUPPLY IN INDO-PACIFIC...
March 12 ,2021
In their first summit under the Quad framework on Friday, leaders of India, the US, Japan and Australia will deliberate on expanding co...
Coronavirus: One year on, virus still has upper hand
March 12 ,2021
On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared that the world was facing its first-ever pandemic from a coronavirus. I...
Myanmar’s Military Junta launches corruption probe of Suu...
March 12 ,2021
Myanmar’s military regime has launched corruption probes targeting the country’s ousted leaders, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Pres...
Defence cooperation between Pak and China continues, Exerc...
March 12 ,2021
Defence cooperation between Pakistan and China continues, even in the form of joint exercises. This includes this year's Exercise Al Ba...
MORNING NEWS BRIEF: 12 MARCH
March 12 ,2021
PICTURE OF THE DAYMIYAGI, JAPAN
People release dove-shaped balloons into the sky to mourn earthquake and tsunami victims in Na...
MORNING NEWS BRIEF: 12 MARCH
March 12 ,2021
PICTURE OF THE DAYMIYAGI, JAPAN
People release dove-shaped balloons into the sky to mourn earthquake and tsunami victims in Natori, Mi...
Pakistan bans TikTok again for 'immoral content'
March 12 ,2021
Pakistan has banned TikTok, China's video-sharing app, for the second time. The Pakistani media regulator undertook the move on Thursda...
BSF HANDS OVER 2 APPREHENDED BANGLADESHIS TO BGB
March 12 ,2021
The South Bengal Frontier of the Border Security Force (BSF) has handed over two Bangladeshi nationals to Border Guard Bangla...
MYANMAR JUNTA ACCUSES SUU KYI OF TAKING BRIBES AS 8 KILLED...
March 12 ,2021
Myanmar's military government accused deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi of accepting illegal payments as eight people were killed on Thur...
PAKISTAN READY TO HOST SAARC SUMMIT, SAYS FOREIGN OFFICE
March 12 ,2021
Pakistan said on Thursday that it was ready to host the long delayed summit of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SA...
Battle royal: Harry and Meghan’s modern brand of revenge
March 12 ,2021
Remember the Heads Together campaign? It was back in 2017. Prince William, his wife Kate and his brother Prince Harry, who’d rece...
US confirms high-level meeting with Chinese officials in A...
March 12 ,2021
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will meet top Chinese officials next week in Anchorage, Alaska. Photo: Reuters
US Secretary o...
Biden plans messaging blitz to sell economic aid plan
March 12 ,2021
President Biden, joined by Vice President Kamala Harris, answered questions from reporters on Saturday after the Senate vote to appro...
India’s message on border killings is loud and clear: Like...
March 12 ,2021
There were two senior-level meetings between Bangladesh and India so far in 2021. One was held at the foreign secretary level in New De...
India’s illiberal ‘democracy’
March 12 ,2021
ON Friday, the US-based think tank Freedom House released its annual report ranking countries based on their fulfillment of and support...
The leaked US plan to end the war in AfghanistanThe leaked...
March 12 ,2021
A leaked State Department document presents the clearest picture yet of a political settlement to the Afghan conflict that would satisf...
Nepal at a crossroads
March 12 ,2021
Politics in Nepal took a dramatic turn following two significant decisions made by the Supreme Court on February 23 and March 7, 2021....
Indonesia ramps up diplomacy to solve Myanmar crisis
March 12 ,2021
Indonesian President Joko Widodo, through his foreign minister, stresses noninterference, but also democracy, human rights and t...
Nepalese mountaineers set up Everest routes for foreign cl...
March 12 ,2021
Climbers cross the Khumbu icefall of Mount Everest. The route across is prepared at the start of the climbing season by highly skille...
Democracy Report has downgraded India from 'world's larges...
March 12 ,2021
India Gate | ThePrint
The fifth annual democracy report by Sweden’s V-Dem Institute, titled ‘Autocratisation goes vira...
Pakistan objects to India’s inclusion in Afghan endgame
March 12 ,2021
Pakistani officials have voiced concerns over the US proposal to invite India at the UN-sponsored meeting of regional countries aimed a...
latest News
Column
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...
