Daily Archives: January 26, 2019

FAKHRUL REJECTS PM’S CALL TO JOIN PARLIAMENT

BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday turned down prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s call for taking oath by MPs of the party to join the 11th parliament,...

OVER 100 ARRESTED IN RAID ON AFGHAN-TURK SCHOOLS IN BALKH

Among those arrested are six Turkish nationals who were working in the Afghan-Turk schools in Balkh. Balkh police reportedly raided Afghan-Turk schools in Mazar-e-Sharif city on Thursday night, arresting almost 100 teachers,...

WATER TALKS WITH INDIA FROM TOMORROW

A three-member Pakistani delegation, led by Indus Water Commissioner Mehr Ali Shah, will visit India from Sunday (tomorrow) for inspection of hydroelectric projects India is building in the Chenab...

RULING PARTY BULLDOZES MEDICAL BILL THROUGH HOUSE

The ruling Nepal Communist Party on Friday used its two-thirds majority and hundreds of marshalls in Parliament to endorse the National Medical Education Bill, refusing to acknowledge the main...

LATE INDIAN JOURNALIST KULDIP NAYAR AWARDED PADMA BHUSAN

The Indian govt named 112 prominent personalities as recipients of this year’s Padma awards India has accorded the Padma Bhusan award to veteran journalist and an outspoken supporter of press...

SRI LANKA SLAMS HEAVY FINES ON ERRANT WHALE WATCHING BOAT OPERATORS

The Sri Lankan government will impose heavy fines and a two year jail sentence on errant boat operators who do not follow the correct procedures when going for whale...

India, Bangladesh to finalize proposed waterway on January 28-29 next

Indian and Bangladesh officials will soon finalize various aspects of a proposed waterway between the two countries. This was informed by Tripura chief minister Biplab Kumar Deb in Agartala on Thursday. Deb disclosed...

Pakistan to host Maritime Exercise ‘Aman-2019’ in Feb

Naval Chief Admiral Zafar Mahmood Abbasi says Maritime Exercise 'Aman-2019' will be hosted by Pakistan Navy next month. This he said during his meetings in Jordan with the heads of...

Indian PM Modi’s popularity at all-time low; rival Gandhi closing in: poll

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ratings have dropped to their lowest-ever level, but he still leads in popularity before a national election expected in the next few months, an...

Prosecute Myanmar army chief for Rohingya ‘genocide’: UN envoy

Myanmar's army chief should be prosecuted for "genocide" against the Rohingya, a United Nations' human rights investigator has said.Yanghee Lee, the UN special rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar, added that holding...

Taliban appoints new political leader to join US-Taliban peace talks

A co-founder of the Taliban was appointed as the leader of its political office in Qatar on Thursday to strengthen its hand in peace talks with the US as...

India, Maldives discuss maritime security, military ties

India and Maldives on Thursday resolved to deepen their maritime security cooperation and give a new momentum to overall military ties during talks between Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and...

Two Sri Lankan peacekeepers killed, three injured in Mali

Two Sri Lankan army personnel who were deployed for peacekeeping in Mali were killed on Friday morning when their armoured vehicle came under attack, a statement from the Sri...

Afghan Taliban keeps up pressure ahead of peace talks

A Taliban car bombing this week wounded more than a hundred people, according to media reports, and more than a hundred more lost their lives in an attack on...

Northeast India burning over issue of foreigners

It was a spectacular rally in the pre-historic city of Guwahati on January 23 last that strongly opposed the Indian Union government’s latest initiative to amend the country’s citizenship...

Why Myanmar can’t shake its drug problem

Myo Min knows all too well about the negative effects of excessive drug use. He started using methamphetamines more than a decade ago after being pressured to try it...

Kashmir conflict: Making of child soldiers like Burhan Wani in the time of social...

Many analysts hold that the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) is in the throes of a new wave of militancy—one that is driven by the growth of...

Pakistan equips military with tactical nuke-capable missile 

Pakistan launched a short-range ballistic missile Thursday, formally equipping the military with a nuclear-capable rocket that officials say would deter a surprise conventional attack against the country by rival...

Indian second indigenous aircraft carrier stuck at its embryonic stage

India’s Indigenous Aircraft Carrier (IAC) project has been launched in 2013 and the first Indian home-made aircraft carrier is scheduled to be operational by 2021. Nowadays, the Indian Navy...

China offering J-10 fighters to Bangladesh, Laos as rival to Russian Yak-130 aircraft

China has started hard-selling its J-10 fighter jet to Bangladesh and Laos to wean them off Russian aircraft such as the Yak-130 trainer/light fighter which both countries are considering. The...

US, Taliban discuss troop withdrawal, ceasefire in Qatar talks

On the fifth day of the talks between US and Taliban officials in Doha, Qatar, the negotiations were around withdrawal of foreign forces from Afghanistan and a ceasefire, sources...