Crisis-hit Sri Lanka lifts curfew for Buddhist festival, c...
May 16, 2022
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By: SAM Report
Buddhist devotees offer prayers at the Kelaniya Temple during the Vesak festival in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Photo: AFP
Sri Lankan authorities lifted...
Time to make Ukraine Putin’s Afghanistan? Think again
March 4, 2022
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By: SAM Report
A Democratic president, buffeted by crises at home and a Cold War on the verge of turning hot, told a rapt audience in the chamber of the US House of...
Sri Lanka: UN report describes alarming rights situation
March 4, 2022
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By: SAM Report
Tamil National Alliance lawmaker Shanakiyan Rasamanickam urges repeal of the abusive Prevention of Terrorism Act, Colombo, Sri Lanka, February 15, 2...
Sri Lankan envoy in India meets RSS chief
February 28, 2022
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By: SAM Report
Sri Lankan envoy in India meets RSS chief
Colombo: Sri Lanka's High Commissioner to India, Milinda Moragoda, met the Chief of the Rashtriya Swaya...
Taliban, Western officials meet in Oslo to discuss Afghani...
January 25, 2022
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By: SAM Report
International special representatives and the Taliban delegates meet at the Soria Moria hotel in Oslo [Stian Lysberg Solum/pool via EPA]
Taliban...
Hindu bigots are openly urging Indians to murder Muslims
January 18, 2022
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By: SAM Report
“All hindus must pick up weapons and conduct a cleanliness drive,” bellowed a Hindu priest at a three-day “religious parliament...
India’s government is ignoring, and sometimes even encoura...
January 17, 2022
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By: SAM Report
Pulses raced as 12th-graders answered maths problems at St Joseph’s School in Ganj Basoda, a provincial town in the state of Madhya Pradesh...
Asia’s richest man Mukesh Ambani to invest US$76 billion i...
January 14, 2022
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By: SAM Report
Mukesh Ambani, chairman and managing director of Reliance Industries, to invest billions in green projects. Photo: Reuters
The conglomerate led b...
Sri Lanka's president asks China to restructure debt repay...
January 10, 2022
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By: SAM Report
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, right, arrives with Sri Lanka's President Gotabaya Rajapaksa during his visit to the Colombo Port city p...
Luxury jewellers risk funding military abuses in Myanmar:...
December 22, 2021
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By: SAM Report
A ruby cutter inspects a ruby at his work place in Mogkok on February 28, 2014 [File: Soe Zeya Tun/ Reuters]
An anti-corruption group has put lux...
What is the future of the Afghan national army?
December 15, 2021
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By: SAM Report
After the fall of the Kabul government in mid-August, the Afghan National Army (ANA) fell like dominos all over Afghanistan. Many experts speculated t...
Can Facebook be blamed for pogroms against Rohingyas in My...
December 11, 2021
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By: SAM Report
That facebook was used to spread rhetoric that incited carnage in Myanmar is hardly up for debate. According to the lead author of a un ...
INDIA PAYS HOMAGE TO FIRST CDS GEN. BIPIN RAWAT, WIFE AND...
December 10, 2021
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By: SAM Report
Prime Minister Narendra Modi pays tribute to the mortal remains of Chief of Defence Staff Gen Bipin Rawat and others in New Delhi on December 9, 202...
India’s population will start to shrink sooner than expect...
December 6, 2021
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By: SAM Report
When something happens earlier than expected, Indians say it has been “preponed”. On November 24th India’s health ministry reve...
Bangladesh ready for extensive foreign investment
November 30, 2021
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By: SAM Report
International Investment Summit 2021. Photo: Salahuddin Ahmed/TBS
A hundred economic zones and a dozen hi-tech parks in the making, 11 thrust sec...
Bangladesh: Now is the time to take FDI seriously
November 26, 2021
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By: SAM Report
It is important to pay heed to the state of our infrastructure because it can influence FDI. Good news is, the country’s ports, roads...
China-India border dispute: defence chief says Beijing is...
November 13, 2021
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By: SAM Report
India has deployed thousands of troops along its disputed Himalayan border with China. Photo: AFP
China has become India’s biggest sec...
6 Palestinian rights activists hacked by NSO spyware: Repo...
November 9, 2021
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By: SAM Report
A logo adorns a wall on a branch of the Israeli NSO Group company, near the southern Israeli town of Sapir, (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)
Securit...
Regional powers back aid for Afghanistan as Russia hosts T...
October 21, 2021
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By: SAM Report
Members of political delegation from the Afghan Taliban's movement attend talks involving Afghan representatives in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday [Alexa...
What is behind the recent surge in violence in Kashmir?
October 21, 2021
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By: SAM Report
Indian security personnel stand guard on a street in Srinagar [Danish Ismail/Reuters]
A surge in violence in Indian-administered Kashmir in recen...
Lankan President sounds India on making Indian Ocean a Zon...
October 11, 2021
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By: SAM Report
Lankan President sounds India on making Indian Ocean a Zone of Peace.
In his meeting with the visiting Indian Foreign Secretary, Harsh Vardha...
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