MODI INAUGURATES ‘MAITRI SETU’ BETWEEN INDIA AND BANGLADES...
March 9 ,2021
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated "Maitri Setu" between India and Bangladesh today via video conferencing.
The India...
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March 9 ,2021
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A woman outside the district court holds a placard that reads: ‘I refuse to be next’, a...
MORNING NEWS BRIEF: 09 MARCH
March 9 ,2021
PICTURE OF THE DAYTEL AVIV, ISREAL
A woman outside the district court holds a placard that reads: ‘I refuse to be next’, a...
Malaysia’s 1998 playbook helps Sri Lanka shun IMF for Chin...
March 9 ,2021
Faced with low foreign-exchange reserves and looming debt repayments, Sri Lanka is borrowing from the contrarian playbook Malaysia used...
In Nepal and across the world, child marriage is rising
March 9 ,2021
Child marriage is increasing at alarming levels in many places, the United Nations says.PHOTO: AFP
Sapana dreamt of becoming a gov...
How pandemic may finally sink Kashmir's famous houseboats
March 9 ,2021
Building and repair ban had turned Dal Lake into graveyard for sinking boats even before coronavirus and Delhi crackdown
Ghulam Na...
‘Indian state is afraid of strong women’: Activist Safoora...
March 9 ,2021
Zargar says she still lives in fear of being separated from her infant son [Photo courtesy: Safoora Zargar's family]
It was almost...
Alibaba buys Bangladesh food delivery service HungryNaki
March 9 ,2021
Online meal delivery service HungryNaki has 500 drivers who serve its more than 500,000 regular customers in five Banglades...
Shrinking British Army would be a huge strategic blunder
March 9 ,2021
Photo: Getty Images
Recent media reports have suggested that the British Army is likely to be made smaller yet again in the Integr...
An economic showdown brews in the gulf
March 9 ,2021
Saudi Arabia is laying the foundations for another Gulf crisis – this time provoking its ally, the United Arab Emirates. Just wee...
Switzerland to ban wearing of burqa and niqab in public pl...
March 9 ,2021
People protest against Switzerland’s ban on wearing a full face veil in public plans, which has been approved in a national ref...
Navy, Army and IAF finally agree to procure armed drones f...
March 9 ,2021
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Impressed with the performance of the two leased Sea Guardian drones, the Navy, Army an...
At least half of the 123 Tejas fighters ordered by the IAF...
March 9 ,2021
The Light Combat Aircraft Tejas. Photo: Kamal Kishore/PTI
For long India’s indigenous light combat aircraft (LCA), Tejas, pr...
Why this summer’s Central Asia-South Asia connectivity con...
March 9 ,2021
Xi Jinping, Kyrgyz President Sooronbai Jeenbekov, Vladimir Putin and Imran Khan at the SCO Council. PHOTO: AFP
Uzbekistan plans to...
India ramps up Myanmar border patrols as it weighs junta d...
March 9 ,2021
Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar gather outside a mosque on Sunday in Jammu city. At least 168 of their number face possible deportation...
The (NCP) party’s over
March 9 ,2021
The merger between Dahal’s Maoist party and Oli’s CPN-UML was fraught with challenges. Post File Photo
What many were...
Myanmar regime steps up violence to tackle general strike
March 9 ,2021
Two protesters shot dead in Myitkyina, Kachin state.
Another general strike planned by anti-regime protesters on Monday faced...
US seeks Pakistan's help over new 'Afghan peace plan’
March 9 ,2021
The US special envoy for Afghanistan shared with Pakistan the new strategy of the Biden administration, seeking national elections unde...
Thousands of Indian women join farmers’ protests against n...
March 9 ,2021
Women farmers attend a protest against farm laws on International Women's Day near Haryana-Delhi border [Danish Siddiqui/Reuters]...
Nepal top court quashes 2018 formation of ruling Nepal Com...
March 9 ,2021
Nepal's former Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Oli, left, shakes hand with the chairman of Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre) Push...
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