SOUTH ASIA SET TO BOUNCE BACK BUT FACES FRAGILE RECOVERY
March 31 ,2021
South Asia's prospect for an economic rebound is firming up as the area's growth is set to increase by 7.2 per cent in 2021 and 4.4 per...
BRAZIL MILITARY CHIEFS QUIT AS BOLSONARO SEEKS THEIR SUPPO...
March 31 ,2021
The leaders of all three branches of Brazil's armed forces jointly resigned Tuesday following President Jair Bolsonaro's replacement of...
MORNING NEWS BRIEF: 31 MARCH
March 31 ,2021
PICTURE OF THE DAYWASHINGTON DC, US
The US president, Joe Biden, and the first lady, Dr Jill Biden, are reflected in the Vietn...
MORNING NEWS BRIEF: 31 MARCH
March 31 ,2021
PICTURE OF THE DAYWASHINGTON DC, US
The US president, Joe Biden, and the first lady, Dr Jill Biden, are reflected in the Vietn...
PAKISTAN PM TO INDIA PM: WE TOO WANT PEACEFUL RELATIONS
March 31 ,2021
Pakistan's prime minister has responded to a recent peace overture from his Indian counterpart, writing in a letter to Narendra Modi th...
JAPAN SUSPENDS NEW AID TO MYANMAR OVER MILITARY COUP
March 31 ,2021
Japan has suspended the provision of new aid to Myanmar in response to last month's military coup, Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi s...
Heart of Asia-Istanbul process: Qureshi, Cavusoglu discuss...
March 31 ,2021
Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi and Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu Monday discussed myriad dimensions of bila...
Pandemic Olympics: Japan searches for meaning in isolated...
March 31 ,2021
For the organizers of the Tokyo Olympics, the start of the torch relay last week was a welcome beginning after investing seven years an...
The China-Iran pact is a game changer
March 31 ,2021
When China and Iran, two of the United States’ main adversaries in the contemporary world situation, enter into a 25-year strateg...
Covid: new vaccines needed globally within a year, say sci...
March 31 ,2021
A man in the Uruguayan capital, Montevideo, gets a dose of the CoronaVac jab. Photograph: Pablo Porciuncula/AFP/Getty Images
The p...
Myanmar crisis requires Beijing to lead – and work with Wa...
March 31 ,2021
A wounded civilian fleeing the violence in Myanmar is carried on a stretcher to receive medical treatment across the Thai border. Pho...
US will 'expel' India from Quad if Delhi buys S-400 missil...
March 31 ,2021
India's proposed purchase of S-400 air defence systems from Russia has become a thorny issue in New Delhi's bilateral ties with Washing...
The Taliban think they have already won, peace deal or not
March 31 ,2021
Members of a Taliban red unit, an elite force, in Laghman Province’s Alingar district in Afghanistan, last year
The Taliban&...
India, Thailand face looming refugee crisis as Myanmar vio...
March 31 ,2021
Soldiers walk towards anti-coup protesters during a demonstration in Yangon. Photo: AP
India and Thailand are braci...
The Quad does not serve India’s security interests
March 31 ,2021
On March 12, the leaders of four countries — the US, India, Japan and Australia — signaled the emergence of a new coalition...
PM Oli is paying Nepal faction leaders back with their own...
March 31 ,2021
Ever since the Supreme Court revived the CPN-UML and the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre) on March 7, KP Sharma Oli, the UML ch...
PM Modi's visit to Bangladesh violated poll code: TMC to E...
March 31 ,2021
The TMC has written to the Election Commission alleging that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's recent visit to Bangladesh violated the mod...
Pakistan will continue to support a peaceful, sovereign Af...
March 31 ,2021
Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi speaks during the 9th Heart of Asia–Istanbul Process (HoA-IP) Ministerial Conference
P...
Biggest share of Indian-made vaccines for UN drive stays i...
March 31 ,2021
Workers offload AstraZeneca vaccines under the COVAX scheme at Aden Abdulle Osman Airport in Mogadishu, Somalia
India itself has r...
Uzbekistan aims to deepen links between Central and South...
March 31 ,2021
Uzbekistan’s pivot toward South Asia is deepening as Tashkent is working to diversify its options for accessing the sea beyond th...
Saudi jets fly into Pakistan for 4th multinational air for...
March 31 ,2021
A Royal Saudi Air Force (RSAF) contingent of nearly 180 pilots and air engineering technicians is participating in a two-week drill org...
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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
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...
