Daily Archives: February 4, 2019

SRI LANKA CELEBRATES 71ST INDEPENDENCE DAY

All is in readiness for Sri Lanka to celebrate its 71st Independence Day with festivities organised countrywide to mark the occasion. The main event will be held at Galle...

IS IT ANOTHER JOJ MIA CASE?

The High Court yesterday asked the Anti-Corruption Commission whether it had produced another “Joj Mia drama” while commenting on the imprisonment of an innocent person. “The person who should have...

TRUMP WILL KEEP ‘A SMALLER NUMBER’ OF TROOPS IN AFGHANISTAN

US President Donald Trump has once again insisted that he will withdraw his forces from Afghanistan; however, he did not reject a scenario in which he would keep “a...

NEXT 5 YEARS OF CPEC LIKELY TO HELP PAKISTAN TACKLE TRADE DEFICIT

In March and April 2016, Pakistan sent two delegations to China for studying best practices in the development of Special Economic Zones (SEZs). In November 2016, the two sides established...

CBI VS MAMATA BANERJEE REACHES SUPREME COURT AFTER SHOWDOWN IN KOLKATA

As drama continues in West Bengal over an unexpected visit of the CBI officers to Kolkata, the central agency dragged the state government to the Supreme Court today. On...

NEPAL TO RESUME TALKS WITH BHUTAN ON REFUGEE REPATRIATION

Nepal has decided to resume talks with Bhutan to repatriate the remaining 6,500 Bhutanese refugees who are living in two camps in Jhapa. The initiative will be first in...

SWIFT help for Bangladesh bank that lost US$81 million in world’s biggest cyber heist

International payments network SWIFT said it had signed an agreement with Bangladesh’s central bank to help it rebuild its infrastructure after hackers used it to steal US$81 million in...

Sri Lanka navy ship to reach Karachi on Feb 6 to take part in...

Sri Lanka Navy’s Advanced Offshore Patrol Vessel (AOPV), SLNS Sayurala has left the country from the Port of Colombo for Pakistan to take part in AMAN 2019, the biennial...

Citizenship Bill: Manipuri filmmaker Aribam Syam Sharma returns Padma Shri in protest

Noted Manipuri filmmaker and music composer Aribam Syam Sharma on Sunday said he was returning his Padma Shri in protest against the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016, Northeast Now reported....

Afghan forces to reject transient peace deal with Taliban: President

Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani has stressed that the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces would reject a transient peace agreement with the Taliban movement, Khaama Press news agency...

Bhutan is taking a historic move to invest in youth: PM

Prime Minister, Dr Lotay Tshering, said enrolling all class ten passed students into government and private higher secondary schools is a historic move to invest in youth of the...

China-Bangladesh cooperation under BRI to mitigate seaborne security threats in the Bay of Bengal

The ‘Belt and Road’ Initiative (BRI), commenced by the Chinese President Xi Jinping in 2013, has been the most significant and far-reaching project that China has ever put forward.

West Bengal means business: Should Mamata vie for Chinese investment?

The volta face of Chief Minister of West Bengal Mamata Banerjee, exhibited by her hell-bent to woo big investors, in contrary to her drubbing Tata’s Nano project in 2008,...

Afghanistan’s quagmire

Afghanistan has been remained the place of proxy wars by the superpowers for the last forty years, initially by the Soviet Union and then by the United States. War...

As US-Taliban talks progress, India reaches out to China to discuss Afghanistan’s future

With the Afghan government in tow, India has reached out to arch-rival China for a dialogue on the future of Afghanistan, as talks between the US and the Taliban...

China plans to sell Pak an aircraft carrier and integrate it militarily

The noticeable changes in China’s foreign policy in recent months, particularly the conciliatory tone, are attributable to a large extent directly to pressure exerted on Beijing by the “trade...

HAL under accountability cloud after Mirage crash

Former Navy Chief Admiral Arun Prakash has sought accountability from the political leadership and the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited brass after the crash of a Mirage-2000 fighter jet Saturday in...

The geopolitics of NRC in Assam

India is witnessing the chaotic process of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) unfold in Assam. The exercise, directed and sponsored by vested political quarters, is designed to deny...

Saudi Arabia pursuing missile program with China, Pakistan help: US experts

American defense experts say Saudi Arabia has been pursuing a missile program with the help of China and Pakistan, in a potential divergence from the US and policy shift...

Former Assam CM Mahanta warns of ‘volatile’ situation if Citizenship Bill passed

Former Assam chief minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta Sunday warned the Narendra Modi government that a “volatile” situation will arise in the state if the contentious Citizenship (Amendment) Bill is...

India should stop blaming Pakistan for its internal issues: Qureshi

Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has said Pakistan has no intention to interfere in the internal matters of India, but New Delhi should also stop blaming Islamabad for its...