TWO MYANMAR AIR BASES COME UNDER ATTACK
April 29 ,2021
Unidentified attackers launched assaults on two Myanmar air bases on Thursday, with blasts reported at one base and rocket fire seen at...
SOUTH ASIA’S FOREIGN MINISTERS MEET SHOWS CONCERN OVER ‘VA...
April 29 ,2021
The China lead foreign ministers meeting of five South Asian nations including Bangladesh over Covid-19 cooperation has showed concern...
CALIFORNIA MAN FOUND GUILTY IN $100 MILLION AFGHANISTAN FR...
April 29 ,2021
A California man pleaded guilty Tuesday in a scheme to bilk the Afghanistan government out of more than $100 million with...
UN ADOPTS DROWNING PREVENTION RESOLUTION INTRODUCED BY BAN...
April 29 ,2021
The United Nations General Assembly has unanimously adopted a resolution on drowning prevention which was introduced by Bangladesh.
Th...
INDIA'S CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS CROSS 18 MILLION; RECORD NU...
April 29 ,2021
India's total COVID-19 cases passed 18 million on Thursday after another world record daily infection and death tally and as the govern...
MORNING NEWS BRIEF: 29 APRIL
April 29 ,2021
PICTURE OF THE DAYPETERSBURG, RUSSIA
A worker paints over a mural of the jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Russia's government...
MORNING NEWS BRIEF: 29 APRIL
April 29 ,2021
PICTURE OF THE DAYPETERSBURG, RUSSIA
A worker paints over a mural of the jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Russia's government...
Saudi crown prince strikes conciliatory tone towards rival...
April 29 ,2021
Saudi Arabia’s crown prince has struck a conciliatory tone towards the kingdom’s arch-nemesis, Iran, saying he sought &ldqu...
RCEP trade pact hands China a global edge, for now
April 29 ,2021
A poster of Chinese President Xi Jinping is displayed at the Forbidden City. With the failure of the U.S. to join the TPP, Beijing pr...
Biden: 'We are in a competition with China to win the 21th...
April 29 ,2021
As U.S. President Joe Biden's first 100 days draw to a close, he has one key message to the nation and the world: "America is on the mo...
PLA sets up joint defence units near Indian border
April 29 ,2021
The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has, for the first time, inducted the army’s air defence units in its air force...
Tejas aircraft cleared to carry Python-5 air-to-air missil...
April 29 ,2021
Indigenously-developed light combat aircraft Tejas has been cleared to carry fifth generation Python-5 air-to-air missile as part of it...
Protesters in Myanmar’s biggest city return with ‘Guerrill...
April 29 ,2021
The streets of Myanmar’s commercial capital, Yangon, have seen a limited resumption of protest activity after more than three wee...
Bangladesh’s GDP to grow at 5.8pc this fiscal year: ADB
April 29 ,2021
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has forecasted that Bangladesh gross domestic product (GDP) would grow at highest 5.8 per cent this fi...
No cremation, no help, man carries Covid positive wife's b...
April 29 ,2021
Two heart-wrenching photos from Uttar Pradesh has brought home the situation of Covid-hit families in rural Uttar Pradesh. One of the p...
Nine arrested in opposition's protests
April 29 ,2021
Nine people were arrested at a protest staged by opposing Progressive Parity of Maldives (PPM) on Tuesday.
The opposition has been con...
Saudi Arabia launches iftar program in Nepal
April 29 ,2021
Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Call and Guidance, has launched the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman ift...
Pakistan to persuade Taliban to attend Istanbul summit
April 29 ,2021
Pakistan has assured Afghanistan that it will make all-out efforts to persuade the Taliban to join the Istanbul Conference as Islamabad...
India not so scientific as it claims to be
April 29 ,2021
Indian constitution is a unique constitution, and according to it, it is a fundamental duty, the eighth one, of every citizen in India...
Bangladesh joins Chinese initiative for vaccine, oxygen
April 29 ,2021
We welcome the government's decision to join five other South Asian countries in a multilateral effort to ensure vaccine and oxygen sup...
I’m a Myanmar diplomat, here’s why I refuse to recognize t...
April 29 ,2021
I work in the foreign service of my homeland, Myanmar, in our embassy here in Washington, D.C. I decided to become a diplomat to repres...
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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
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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...
