3 ROHINGYAS KILLED IN FIRE IN UKHIYA
April 2 ,2021
At least three Rohingyas were killed in a fire that broke out in a market in Kutupalong Bazar area of Ukhiya in Cox’s Bazar early...
AT LEAST 36 DEAD IN TAIWAN TRAIN DERAILMENT: RAILWAY POLIC...
April 2 ,2021
Rescue team help stranded passengers down from the roof of a train which derailed in a tunnel north of Hualien, Taiwan on 2 April 2...
MYANMAR’S SUU KYI APPOINTS SIX MORE DEFENSE LAWYERS
April 2 ,2021
An eight-member legal team will defend Myanmar’s State Counselor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi against charges brought since the February...
BANGLADESH SEES RECORD HIGH DAILY CORONAVIRUS CASES AMID S...
April 2 ,2021
Bangladesh has reported a record-high number of daily COVID-19 infections as the government moved to ban flights from several countries...
INDIA TO TAKE PART IN FRANCE-LED NAVAL EXERCISE
April 2 ,2021
India will join its Quad partners — Australia, Japan, and the United States — in the France-led joint naval exercise, La P&...
PAKISTAN FREEZES PLAN TO OPEN IMPORTS FROM INDIA
April 2 ,2021
Just a day after announcing plans to open imports of cotton and sugar from India, Pakistan’s government said it was “deferr...
MORNING NEWS BRIEF: 02 APRIL
April 2 ,2021
PICTURE OF THE DAYYONGON, MYANMAR
Smoke rises from a fire at Ruby Mart in Yangon in the early morning of April 1, 2021 with th...
MORNING NEWS BRIEF: 02 APRIL
April 2 ,2021
PICTURE OF THE DAYYONGON, MYANMAR
Smoke rises from a fire at Ruby Mart in Yangon in the early morning of April 1, 2021 with the Shweda...
Pakistan, India peace move silences deadly Kashmir frontie...
April 2 ,2021
The machine guns peeking over parapets of small, sandbagged concrete bunkers and the heavy artillery cannons dug deep into Himalayan Ka...
Iran–China strategic agreement could be a game-changer
April 2 ,2021
The signing of a 25-year cooperation agreement between the oil-rich and regionally influential, but U.S. sanctioned, Islamic Republic o...
Biden’s push for electric cars: $174 billion, 10 years and...
April 2 ,2021
President Biden is a muscle-car guy — one of his most prized possessions is a 1967 Corvette that he got from his father. But he&r...
Factory mix-up ruins up to 15 million vaccine doses from J...
April 2 ,2021
An Emergent BioSolutions lab in Baltimore last month.Credit...Michael Robinson Chavez/The Washington Post, via Getty Images
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India, Bhutan, Sri Lanka & Bangladesh to hold joint milita...
April 2 ,2021
India will take part in a joint military exercise along with Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Bhutan from April 4 to 12, in the first such mul...
'How can a human being be illegal?': Lawyer for Rohingya q...
April 2 ,2021
An Indian flag in a Rohingya camp in Delhi. Photo: Ismat Ara
Indian authorities are preparing to deport Rohingya refugees currentl...
A complex political triangle Nepal’s two parties in opposi...
April 2 ,2021
Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli should have resigned, technically, on moral grounds immediately after the Supreme Court on February 23 ove...
India should not seek closer ties with US at expense of re...
April 2 ,2021
A view in New Delhi's strategic circle argues that China benefited greatly from its engagement with the US from 1972 to around the year...
Biden’s Afghanistan dilemma
April 2 ,2021
U.S. soldiers at a checkpoint in Afghanistan’s Wardak province
Is America’s longest war finally coming to an end?
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Aung San Suu Kyi faces new charge under Myanmar’s secrets...
April 2 ,2021
Myanmar has been rocked by protests on a near-daily basis since Aung San Suu Kyi was deposed in a coup
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Russian FM to visit Pakistan to discuss Afghan peace, regi...
April 2 ,2021
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will travel to Pakistan next week on a visit that appears to be focused on the Afghan endgame an...
US exporters continue to encounter significant trade barri...
April 2 ,2021
The Biden administration has alleged that US exporters continued to encounter significant tariff and non-tariff barriers that impede th...
Turkish officer assumes NATO-led office in Afghanistan
April 2 ,2021
Turkish Brigadier General Selcuk Yurtsizoglu on Tuesday assumed command of the NATO-led unit Train, Advise, Assist Command-Capital in A...
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