TERROR THREAT HAS ‘MOVED’ FROM AFGHANISTAN: US
April 19 ,2021
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday defended the US decision to withdraw from Afghanistan, saying the terror threat had move...
INDIA COULD BUILD NEW COAL PLANTS DUE TO LOW COST DESPITE...
April 19 ,2021
India could build new coal-fired power plants as they generate the cheapest power, according to a draft electricity policy document see...
INDIA SEES RECORD SURGE OF 273,810 COVID-19 CASES AS TALLY...
April 19 ,2021
India witnessed yet another record rise in its daily cases of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), as 273,810 fresh infections were repo...
COVID-19: BRITAIN INVESTIGATING VARIANT ORIGINATING IN IND...
April 19 ,2021
British health officials are investigating a Covid-19 variant originating in India but as yet they do not have enough evidence to class...
CORONAVIRUS: HONG KONG BANS TRAVEL FROM INDIA, PAKISTAN, A...
April 19 ,2021
Hong Kong slapped a two-week travel ban on people coming to the city from India, Pakistan, and the Philippines on Sunday, hours after o...
Skepticism and a shrug: Cubans greet the end of 62 years o...
April 19 ,2021
News travels swiftly through Havana, bumping against people so they turn, then rolling on. Cubans have a phrase for it: la bola en la c...
Malaysia wants all 500,000 teachers vaccinated in phase 2...
April 19 ,2021
The Malaysian Education Ministry wants all 500,000 teachers to be vaccinated against Covid-19 under the second phase of the national pr...
China seeks to become major global vaccine player in wake...
April 19 ,2021
China is trying to reshape its pharmaceutical industry and take on an unprecedented role as a major vaccine supplier to the rest of the...
Afghan leaders seek political agreement ahead of troop wit...
April 19 ,2021
Afghan politicians hope that the government of Afghanistan and the Taliban will achieve a political agreement on peace ahead of the ann...
Bhutanese residing in India and Bangladesh receive Covishi...
April 19 ,2021
With the surge in Covid-19 infection in Bangladesh and India in the past month, the government has dispatched Covishield vaccine for Bh...
Jharkhand wants Remdesivir from Bangladesh
April 19 ,2021
In a surprise development, Chief Minister of Jharkhand Hemant Soren wrote to the Central government on Sunday seeking permission to imp...
Ex-pres summoned to police HQ for questioning
April 19 ,2021
Former President Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayyoom was summoned to the police headquarters on Sunday.Police media official said President Ya...
Hundreds of villagers flee after Myanmar military raid in...
April 19 ,2021
Villagers in Kani Township, Sagaing Region, say they are fleeing their homes after soldiers raided Chaungma village in the township on...
No meeting scheduled with Indian FM in UAE, says Qureshi
April 19 ,2021
Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Sunday clarified that he had no meeting scheduled with Minister of External Affairs of India S...
India, Israel, US can carve out trilateral cooperation on...
April 19 ,2021
Such potential collaboration will capitalise on the existing robust bilateral defence and security cooperation amongst the three countr...
Dhaka must stand up to Delhi in Bangladesh’s deep sea clai...
April 19 ,2021
Bangladesh’s maritime boundary dispute that has yet to be settled is its claim on ‘grey areas’ in the northern Bay of...
Pakistan continues investing in drone development
April 19 ,2021
Currently, Pakistan is actively developing new medium-altitude long-endurance (MALE) unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) across two state-ow...
India: From the Kumbh to Ramzan, contrasting court orders...
April 19 ,2021
The second wave of COVID in India has coincided, rather inauspiciously, with the holy month of Ramzan as well as the Haridwar Kumbh Mel...
India’s shadow looms over revived China-Bhutan border talk...
April 19 ,2021
Chinese foreign vice-minister Kong Xuanyou visited Thimphu, the capital of Bhutan, in 2018. Photo: AP
China and Bhutan a...
India shifts from mass vaccine exporter to importer, worry...
April 19 ,2021
A woman is inoculated with the COVAX vaccine at a vaccination center in the old quarters of the city, in Delhi, India, on Thursday&nb...
Nepal: In the CPN-UML, Oli has found a new spin doctor— Pr...
April 19 ,2021
In a television interview on December 28, a week after President Bidya Devi Bhandari dissolved the House of Representatives on the reco...
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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...
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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...
