Daily Archives: February 5, 2019

JKLF CHIEF YASIN MALIK SLAMS GLOBAL ‘CRIMINAL SILENCE’ OVER INDIAN OPPRESSION IN KASHMIR

Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) Chairman Yasin Malik on Tuesday slammed the international community's criminal silence over the continued oppression of Kashmiris under Indian occupation forces on Kashmir Solidarity...

AFGHAN WOMEN ‘CONCERNED’ AS PEACE EFFORTS STIR NEW HOPES

Women’s rights activists said they hope their rights are reserved in any talks about peace in Afghanistan. As Taliban members and a delegation from mainstream political parties of Afghanistan prepare...

POLICE SEIZE RAM MANOHAR YADAV’S BODY ON THE WAY TO FUNERAL

The final rites of Ram Manohar Yadav, the Free Madhes activist who died in police custody five months ago, was performed in his home village of Kapasi in Banke...

NO ARREST FOR KOLKATA POLICE CHIEF, MUST COOPERATE WITH CBI: TOP COURT

Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar cannot be arrested but he has to appear before the CBI in Shillong, make available all evidence and cooperate with investigations into chit fund...

TWO-THIRDS OF HIMALAYAN GLACIERS COULD MELT, STUDY WARNS

Two-thirds of Himalayan glaciers, the world's "Third Pole", could melt by 2100 if global emissions are not sharply reduced, scientists warned in a major new study issued Monday (Feb...

PM IMRAN ADVISED CAUTION ON IMF BAILOUT DEAL

The deal that International Monetary Fund (IMF) has put on the table is not in the interest of Pakistan because it will unduly burden the vulnerable population and further...

Politics as usual in India again

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi is in a spot of trouble. He has to face reelection in a few months amid growing dissatisfaction with his government’s performance; he’s likely...

Talks on Kashmir, a nuclear tinderbox

Talks on Kashmir are stalled. Instead of discussing the Kashmir dispute. India has threatened to carry out surgical strikes at about 25 targets deep within Azad Kashmir. Indian army-chief...

Pakistan to plant 10 billion trees to counter global warming

Imran Khan, the Prime Minister of Pakistan, launched a “10 Billion Tree Tsunami” project last month in an effort to plant a minimum of 10 billion trees within a...

India imposed anti-dumping duty on 99 Chinese products

To protect domestic players from cheap imports, India has imposed anti-dumping duty on as many as 99 Chinese products as on January 28 this year, Parliament was informed on...

Myanmar police arrest dozens on suspicion of ties with AA in Rakhine

Police arrested 26 people in northern Rakhine State’s Kyauktaw Township early Monday morning on suspicion of having connections with the Arakan Army (AA), state legislator U Maung Than Sein...

Nepal, China likely to sign transport protocol after two months

Nepal and China are preparing to sign the Protocol of Transit and Transport Agreement during the visit of Nepal’s President Bidya Devi Bhandari to Beijing to be held after...

Sri Lanka keeps firebrand Buddhist monk behind bars

Sri Lanka's president resisted calls from the island's Buddhist hierarchy to release a jailed firebrand monk Monday (Feb 4), even as 518 other convicts were released to mark the...

Maldives begin installing surveillance radars by India

Maldives has begun installing the Coastal Radar Surveillance System (CSRR) donated to the Maldives by Indian government. In an interview to Strategic News International of India, Chief of Defense Force...

Afghan government frozen out of Moscow peace talks with the Taliban

Taliban representatives and Afghan President Ashraf Ghani’s political rivals plan to discuss the future of Afghanistan in Moscow on Tuesday, a move viewed here as a further blow to...

Assam’s Bangladesh-phobia is a political product

Srinivas Kumar Sinha, the retired general of the Indian army, was governor of Assam for six years from 1997. It was then that the state’s ethnic crisis was given...

Kashmir is a political issue, can be resolved through dialogue: Shah Faesal

In his first pubic rally, IAS officer-turned-politician Shah Faesal put an impressive show in north Kashmir district of Kupwara on Monday addressing hundreds of people. He described Kashmir as...

China expects India to sign NPT at the earliest

China called on countries that have not yet joined the Treaty on the Non-proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) to join as non-nuclear weapon states as soon as possible. China’s Foreign...

Pakistan conducts second Nasr nuclear-capable ballistic missile test in a week

On January 31, Pakistan’s Army Strategic Forces Command conducted a test of its Nasr/Hatf-IX nuclear-capable, close-range ballistic missile. The test was the second involving the Nasr to take place...

UK HOME SECRETARY APPROVES VIJAY MALLYA’S EXTRADITION TO INDIA

The Indian government moved closer to bring back fugitive businessman Vijay Mallya after UK Home Secretary Sajid Javid on Monday approved the liquor baron’s extradition to India, PTI reported....

Indian army’s $8 bn FICV project continues to be stuck in uncertainties

Uncertainty continues to loom over the fate of the $8-billion (approx Rs 60,000 crore ) Future Infantry Combat Vehicle (FICV) project for the Indian Army which was expected to...