Daily Archives: January 8, 2019

TRUMP, MODI DISCUSS AFGHANISTAN, TRADE TIES

The US President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi discussed reducing the US trade deficit with India and increasing their cooperation in Afghanistan in a telephone call...

INDIAN SCIENTISTS STAGE PROTEST AFTER HINDU NATIONALISTS QUESTION

Isaac Newton did not understand gravity. Albert Einstein misled the world. And India pioneered the science behind test-tube babies thousands of years ago. These were some of the wilder theories...

AMNESTY SLAMS INDIA FOR DEPORTATION TO MYANMAR

Amnesty International on Monday accused India of disregarding international law after a Rohingya family was deported to Myanmar where the military is accused of genocide against the stateless Muslim...

TWO MORE FISH PROCESSING PLANTS ALLOWED TO EXPORT TO EU

Two more fish processing plants in Myanmar have been permitted to export their products to the European Union (EU), bringing the total number of such plants allowed for export...

GOVT. SHOULD BE PUSHED FOR A POLL THIS YEAR: PRESIDENT

The President yesterday told a United Peoples Freedom Alliance (UPFA) parliamentary group meeting that this government should be forced continuously within and outside parliament to hold an election this...

RMG WORKERS’ WAGE DEMO CONTINUES

Around 3,000 garment workers blocked the Dhaka-Mymensingh highway at Uttara in the city for five hours yesterday on the second consecutive day of their protest over the disparity in...

Looking at the horrors of conflict and violence

It is a tiresome pattern. An atrocity – yet another one – is reported and is followed by a global outcry of anger, sadness, condemnation and more. And then...

From Golwalkar to Modi and other lesser BJP minions, why India’s right-wing peddles crackpot...

In ‘We or Our Nationhood Defined’, M S Golwalkar, the ‘intellectual’ torchbearer of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and guruji of India’s political right claims, while arguing that the Aryans

Strengthening Bhutan’s economy at the forefront of 12th Plan

One of the four main priorities of the 12th Five-Year-Plan (FYP) of Bhutan is to strengthen its economy. The plan document underlines to perk up economy through economic diversification, employment...

Number of suicides highest in army among three armed forces in India

The number of defence personnel committing suicide was highest in the Indian Army among the three services in the last three years, data shows. In 2018, a total of 80...

Maldives top court annuls death by stoning sentence for woman

The Maldives' top court has overturned a sentence of death by stoning issued to a woman found guilty of adultery. The woman, who reportedly gave birth out of wedlock, was...

Nepali PM says cross-border railways to be developed with assistance from China, India

Nepali Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli said on Sunday that the Himalayan country has been working on developing cross-border railways linking China and India in cooperation with the two...

Sri Lanka in talks with China to import hybrid buses

Sri Lanka is in talks with China to import hybrid buses to be included in the state public transport service. State Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation Ashoka Abeysinghe said...

IAF fighter jets to get superior shelters to protect them from Chinese bombs

The air force has got a go-ahead to construct 108 modern shelters to house fighter aircraft in forward areas on India’s northern borders at a time when China has...

PLA equipped with mobile howitzers to boost combat capability along India border

The People's Liberation Army (PLA) stationed in Southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region has been equipped with new vehicle-mounted howitzers, which aims to boost their high-altitude combat capability to improve...

Saudi Arabia continues to deport scores of Rohingya to Bangladesh

Saudi Arabia is continuing to deport scores of stateless Rohingya - held indefinitely by the kingdom - to Bangladesh, where they will become refugees, according to video footage sent...

Risks mount for India’s Modi as parties team up in key state

Two powerful regional politicians are teaming up in India’s most populous state to take on the country’s ruling party ahead of national elections, in a move that complicates Prime...

UAE hands Pakistan US$6.2 billion lifeline, but ‘drastic economic reforms are still needed’

Pakistan is set to receive a US$6.2 billion lifeline courtesy of the United Arab Emirates, according to a senior government official in Islamabad. The package, which will include US$3.2 billion...

Myanmar gov’t accuses AA of having ties with ARSA

The Myanmar President’s Office on Monday accused the Arakan Army (AA), an ethnic Rakhine armed group responsible for last week’s deadly attacks on four police outposts, of having ties...

America getting weary of Afghan war

US senator Elizabeth Warren in her recent interview has concurred with President Donald Trump over his aim to withdraw troops from Afghanistan and Syria. An otherwise strong critique of...

INDIAN SCIENTISTS DISTANCE THEMSELVES FROM HINDU CLAIMS ABOUT INVENTIONS

The organizers of a major Indian science conference distanced themselves on Sunday from speakers who used the prestigious event to dismiss Einstein’s discoveries and claim ancient Hindus invented...