Food insecure Asians doubled to 265m in 2020: UN report
January 22 ,2021
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By: Francesca Regaldo
A boy carries a bag of onions at a food distribution center at a Rohingya refugee camp near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh: The WFP's effort...
India’s protesting farmers aren’t going anywhere
January 21 ,2021
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By: Sudha Ramachandran
On January 26, even as India celebrates its 72nd Republic Day with a grand parade in New Delhi, showcasing its military might and plura...
Colombo unfazed by possible Western hostility at UNHRC ses...
January 19 ,2021
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By: P.K. Balachandran
The Gotabaya Rajapaksa government in Sri Lanka is unfazed by the possibility of Western nations’ taking a hostile stance at the M...
India supplies radar spare parts to Sri Lankan Air Force
January 18 ,2021
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By: P.K. Balachandran
As part of India’s commitment to maintaining high serviceability of weapons equipment provided by government of India to the Sri...
India’s invisible women farmers
January 15 ,2021
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By: Neeta Lal
At Tikri village, bordering the western fringes of India’s national capital New Delhi, thousands of farmers from across the count...
India’s Supreme Court stays contentious farm laws, but set...
January 13 ,2021
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By: P.K. Balachandran
The Indian farmer’s agitation at New Delhi, which has been on since November 26, was in a logjam on Tuesday with the farmers refu...
India wants its role in Colombo’s ECT to be seen as privat...
January 11 ,2021
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By: Colombo Correspondent
India wants Sri Lanka to view Indian involvement in the Eastern Container Terminal (ECT) in Colombo port as a Foreign Direct Investment...
What a Biden White House might mean for India
January 9 ,2021
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By: Aditya Gowdara Shivamurthy and Chetan Singai
A painter gives the final touches to a painting depicting newly elected US President Joe Biden, in Mumbai on Nov 8, 2020
Us Presid...
Russian-Chinese ties improved due to India
January 7 ,2021
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By: Andrew Korybko
The past week saw confirmation from Russian and Chinese officials that their strategic partnership with one another is perhaps the most...
Lankan govt. signals unwillingness to accept demand for bu...
January 6 ,2021
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By: P.K. Balachandran
The Sri Lankan government has signaled its unwillingness to accede to the Muslims’ demand that Muslims who die of COVID-19 should...
Importance of Indian foreign minister’s visit to Sri Lanka...
January 5 ,2021
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By: P.K. Balachandran
The Indian External Affairs Minister, Dr. S Jaishankar, will pay an official visit to Sri Lanka from January 5 to 7 at the invitation o...
Why China is winning against India
January 4 ,2021
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By: Sushant Singh
Indian Army convoys drive toward the town of Leh on a highway bordering China in Gagangir, India
There are several global de...
Rohingya refugees hope for better life as Bangladesh moves...
January 1 ,2021
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By: Shehab Sumaon
A second group of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh were on Tuesday taken to an island in the Bay of Bengal to start new lives, despite U...
With over 10 million COVID-19 cases, India is out of contr...
December 23 ,2020
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By: Cheng Xizhong
On December 19, the total confirmed cases of novel coronavirus pneumonia in India is over 10 million. After the United States, India is...
South Asia Collective lambasts Lanka for violating minorit...
December 21 ,2020
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By: P.K. Balachandran
Muslim shops burnt in Sri Lanka
The South Asia Status of Minorities Report 2020, just released by the Europe-based “South As...
Protest at Indian iPhone plant reveals deeper frustrations
December 19 ,2020
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By: Megha Bahree
Workers ransacked a Wistron iPhone factory in India in early December to protest unpaid wages
When workers at an Apple supplier's...
India neglects agriculture, blames China and Pakistan for...
December 16 ,2020
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By: Cheng Xizhong
At the end of September, the Indian government introduced three new agricultural reform bills in a bold manner, which triggered farmers...
A dispatch from India’s culture war
December 12 ,2020
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By: Shashi Tharoor
As if the raging COVID-19 pandemic, a spluttering economy, record-high unemployment, and massive farmers’ protests besieging the...
India’s Gulf strategy is chasing Chinese phantoms
December 10 ,2020
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
Bahrain’s Foreign Minister Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani (R) received External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar, Manama, Dec...
Why India’s new Parliament building may spark a North-Sout...
December 9 ,2020
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By: Rohan Venkataramakrishnan
On December 10, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lay the foundation stone for a new Parliament building in Delhi.
It might seem odd f...
Near the China-Bhutan-India border, a new village is drawi...
Images in October of the new Pangda village on the west bank of the Torsa River stirred controversy about possible border infringemen...
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2020 was a year of multiple challenges for Sri Lanka
It is just a little over a year since Gotabaya Rajapaksa took over as Executive President of Sri Lanka with ambitious plans for his country. A former military man and...
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Myanmar's foreign policy is set to undergo a significant shakeup in the coming year as the government readjusts to the changing international environment in a post-election, post-Covid and...
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India stands against the gateway for South and Southeast A...
Agreement on a project of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) and the Trans-Asian Railway (TAR) Network was signed on 10...
