Daily Archives: March 11, 2019

DHAKA SIGNED NO DEAL WITH RIYADH FOR TROOP DEPLOYMENT: FM

Foreign minister AK Abdul Momen on Sunday informed the parliament that Bangladesh did not sign any agreement with Saudi Arabia over troop deployment as it had only inked a...

TIES WITH US GOING TO TAKE A NEW TURN, SAYS QURESHI

US-Pakistan relations were under strain because of FATF but because of Pakistan’s role in US-Taliban peace dialogues, the relationship with the US is going to take a new turn,...

NEPAL, FRANCE SIGN MEMORANDUM ON SETTING UP SECURITY PRINTING FACILITY

Just ahead of the second Investment Summit, Nepal and France have signed two separate memorandums of understanding—one of which is aimed at setting up state-of-art security printing facilities in...

RAHUL GANDHI MORE POPULAR PM CHOICE THAN NARENDRA MODI FOR SCS, MUSLIMS: PSE POLL

Among Scheduled Castes and Muslims, Rahul Gandhi is a more popular choice for the PM's post than Prime Minister Narendra Modi, an India Today Political Stock Exchange poll shows. However,...

COUNTRY UNITES TO SING NATIONAL ANTHEM IN TWO LANGUAGES: PM

Sri Lanka has united once again as the national anthem is being sung both in Sinhala and in Tamil at functions in all parts of the county, Prime Minister...

DHAKA’S TOXIC AIR: A MAJOR PUBLIC HEALTH CONCERN

The electronic and press media in Bangladesh has recently been highlighting the findings of the 2018 World Air Quality Report published by Greenpeace and AirVisual. As per this report,...

Pakistan may deliver JF-17 Thunder fighter jets to Azerbaijan

Pakistan may deliver JF-17 Thunder fighter jets to Azerbaijan in 2019, which will strengthen the strike power of the former Soviet Republic as well as the potential of its...

Third Indian paratrooper dead in 1 year as parachute fails to open

In a sorry incident reported from Agra, a special forces paratrooper lost his life after his parachute failed to open on time during his jump in the Malpura Dropping...

Coalition is non-existent, claims Maldivian opposition

People's National Congress (PNC) has stated that the ruling-coalition no longer exists in its full form, with coalition partner Jumhooree Party (JP)'s decision to join forces with the opposition...

Nepal won’t join any military alliance, will continue participating in drills

A draft on Nepal’s National Security Policy has been submitted to the Cabinet on Sunday. The draft suggests that Nepal not join any military alliance nor send its troops to...

$4.1bn inflow in next two weeks, says Pakistan Finance Minister

Finance Minister Asad Umar said on Saturday that there will be an inflow of around $4.1 billion in the next two weeks after which the State Bank of Pakistan’s...

Special concessions for security forces in this year’s Sri Lankan budget

Measures have been taken to provide special relief to sir Lanka's tri forces from this year's budget. A number of allowances for the armed forces have been raised after...

Belt and Road reaches Nepal’s wild north, winning China influence

Some 140 km to the north of Nepal's capital Kathmandu, China's "Belt and Road" infrastructure plan is in full swing. "On the Chinese side, the road is so smooth that...

India has clearly abandoned its policy of strategic restraint

Now that the dust has settled over the pines around Jaba top in Balakot, it is instructive to draw operational and strategic lessons and flag history-making events from the...

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan is committed to peace and will fight bigotry

In the last few weeks, one of the most important manifestations of the re-hyphenation of Pakistan and India was the underscoring of the stark reality: even in 2019 a...

India’s North-East: Another Kashmir

Many fear that another Kashmir is in the making in North-East (NE) India. In the last few years, a series of disturbing developments in NE have created a genuine...

Rakhine insurgents suspected of bloody ambush on police station in troubled Myanmar state

Nine police have been killed in a militant attack in Myanmar’s western Rakhine state, police said on Sunday, as tensions ratchet up in a state riven by ethnic and...

KHALEDA ZIA DECLINES HEALTH CHECK AT BSMMU

Following advice from the medical board, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) authorities have completed all preparations for the health check of BNP’s incarcerated chairperson Khaleda Zia. However, Khaleda Zia...

India to go to polls from April 11; tension with Pakistan seen boosting Modi

India will hold a general election in seven stages starting on April 11, the election commission said on Sunday, in what will be the world’s biggest democratic exercise with...

INDIAN ELECTION COMMISSION SLAMMED FOR NOT HOLDING STATE-LEVEL ELECTIONS IN KASHMIR

Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister and National Conference leader Omar Abdullah described Election Commission’s decision to not hold assembly elections in the state as “surrender to Pakistan, to...

Afghans don’t want missionaries of death

Erik Prince, the founder and former CEO of Blackwater, has a plan to privatise the war in Afghanistan, but he faced harsh criticism from an Afghan diplomat who was...