ANTHONY CHAKESANG | A proposed accord with Naga armed groups is expected to be concluded soon, Deputy…
GUWAHATI | IT is hotter than Prague. It does not have the Czech capital’s cobbled squares or narrow…
LOOKEAST REPORT | NATIONAL Investigation Agency (NIA) busted a bomb manufacturing unit in Bengaluru, Karnataka and recovered…
PTI | NEW DELHI TATA Motors said in a statement it has received an order for over…
ZAW NAING OO | A court in Myanmar has issued an arrest warrant for a nationalist Buddhist…
GUWAHATI | IT is hotter than Prague. It does not have the Czech capital’s cobbled squares or narrow streets but instead tin–roofed houses and paddies hemmed with palms and mango trees. Yet Franz Kafka would have felt quite at home in Assam. Since 2016 this hilly tea–growing state in India’s north–eastern corner has been compiling a National Register of Citizens (NRC). Billed as a scientific method for sorting pukka Indians from a suspected mass of unwanted Bangladeshi intruders, the seemingly banal administrative procedure has instead encoiled millions of people in a cruelly absurdist game. Rather than find and prosecute illegal immigrants, Assam has instead tasked its 33m people, many of them poor and illiterate, with proving to bureaucrats that they deserve citizenship. Those who fail risk… …. →
Naga Accord Soon, Says Ravi, But How Soon !
ANTHONY CHAKESANG | A proposed accord with Naga armed groups is expected to be concluded soon, Deputy National Security Adviser RN Ravi has said, just before he was named the next governor of Nagaland. Question is how soon is soon for Mr Ravi, because he had made a similar statement just before the Lok Sabha polls this summer. “It’s nearing conclusion with all. In fact, there is nobody left out. Everyone is part of it.… …. →
ANTHONY CHAKESANG | A proposed accord with Naga armed groups is expected to be concluded soon, Deputy…
GUWAHATI | IT is hotter than Prague. It does not have the Czech capital’s cobbled squares or narrow…
LOOKEAST REPORT | NATIONAL Investigation Agency (NIA) busted a bomb manufacturing unit in Bengaluru, Karnataka and recovered…
PTI | NEW DELHI TATA Motors said in a statement it has received an order for over…
LOOKEAST EXCLUSIVE | INDIAN intelligence agencies are probing a deep–rooted nexus involving underworld don Dawood Ibrahim and a London–based…
LOOKEAST REPORT | Senior BJP leader Mukul Roy blamed West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee for the…
SWADESH ROY | TARIQUE Rahman, son of Khaleda Zia, the leader of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) is…
ZAW NAING OO | A court in Myanmar has issued an arrest warrant for a nationalist Buddhist…
Yangon | Reuters TWO Reuters journalists jailed in Myanmar after they were convicted of breaking the Official…
LOOKEAST REPORT | THE Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) has urged the Supreme Court not to rush the NRC…
ANTHONY CHAKESANG | A proposed accord with Naga armed groups is expected to be concluded soon, Deputy…
GUWAHATI | IT is hotter than Prague. It does not have the Czech capital’s cobbled squares or narrow…
LOOKEAST REPORT | Senior BJP leader Mukul Roy blamed West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee for the…
SWADESH ROY | TARIQUE Rahman, son of Khaleda Zia, the leader of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) is…
LOOKEAST REPORT | THE Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) has urged the Supreme Court not to rush the NRC…
MOHAMMAD ZIAUDDIN | REPORTS out of the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh usually focus on the massive humanitarian…
TAHSEEN ALI | IT has become accepted wisdom that if a political party in a far–flung country…
SUBIR BHAUMIK IN YANGON | THE passage of an ‘emergency proposal’ in the Myanmar parliament late January…
LOOKEAST REPORT | A sensational plot to assassinate Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her family members…
ALEX ELLIS | IN contrast to critics’ claims, Bangladesh’s national elections last year were more peaceful and…
PTI | NEW DELHI TATA Motors said in a statement it has received an order for over…
TAHSEEN ALI | IT has become accepted wisdom that if a political party in a far–flung country…
LOOKEAST REPORT | FORMER Indian ambassador to China Gautam Bambawale on Saturday pitched for a determined push…
LOOKEAST REPORT | BANGLADESH Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen and his Indian counterpart Sushma Swaraj concludes their…
SUBIR BHAUMIK | KOLKATA’s new Chinese consul Zha Liyou says a bullet train connecting Kolkata and Kunming…
SREERAM CHAULIA | SHORTLY after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s record third successive win in Bangladesh’s general elections,…
LOOKEAST REPORT | Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj has congratulated her Bangladesh counterpart Abul Hassan Mahmood…
DHAKA | PRIME Minister Sheikh Hasina said that Bangladesh’s rapid economic expansion will pick up further momentum…
ISHRAT HOSSAIN | INDIA should not be worried about Bangladesh’s close ties with China; the cooperation is…
MK BHADRAKUMAR | THE G20 in Argentina last weekend turned out to be of great significance for…
ANTHONY CHAKESANG | A proposed accord with Naga armed groups is expected to be concluded soon, Deputy…
GUWAHATI | IT is hotter than Prague. It does not have the Czech capital’s cobbled squares or narrow…
LOOKEAST REPORT | NATIONAL Investigation Agency (NIA) busted a bomb manufacturing unit in Bengaluru, Karnataka and recovered…
PTI | NEW DELHI TATA Motors said in a statement it has received an order for over…
LOOKEAST EXCLUSIVE | INDIAN intelligence agencies are probing a deep–rooted nexus involving underworld don Dawood Ibrahim and a London–based…
LOOKEAST REPORT | Senior BJP leader Mukul Roy blamed West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee for the…
ZAW NAING OO | A court in Myanmar has issued an arrest warrant for a nationalist Buddhist…
PTI | THE Indian Navy has successfully test–fired a Medium Range Surface to Air missile (MRSAM), achieving…
SUBIR BHAUMIK | CHINA’s lifting the ‘technical hold’ on the UN 1267’s committee’s resolution to declare Jaish–e–Muhammed…
Yangon | Reuters TWO Reuters journalists jailed in Myanmar after they were convicted of breaking the Official…
Yangon | Reuters TWO Reuters journalists jailed in Myanmar after they were convicted of breaking the Official…
LOOKEAST REPORT | THE annual meet of the West Bengal chapter of IIMC Alumni Association (IIMCAA), Connections, was…
AGARTALA | THE Hindu Jagaran Manch, a Hindu right–wing group, claimed that 98 Christians belonging to 23 tribal…
AGARTALA | IN a bid to attract students from South East Asian countries like Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia,…
LAPHAI SENG RAW | The words of Archbishop Oscar Romero are as poignant today as when first…
YANGON | Eight months pregnant, shamed by her family and shunned by the father of her child,…
COX’S BAZAR & YANGON | Dozens of Rohingya Muslim families on a list of refugees set to…
BELINDA GOLDSMITH | An Indian campaigner supporting women survivors of violence in northeast India was named as…
LOOKEAST REPORT | Indian media came down heavily on ruling Bharatiya Janata Party President Amit Shah’s reference…
LOOKEAST REVIEW | The book, A Mandala of 21st Century Perspectives, is the proceedings of the international…
India Probing Dawood Link With Bangladeshi Army Officer
LOOKEAST EXCLUSIVE | INDIAN intelligence agencies are probing a deep–rooted nexus involving underworld don Dawood Ibrahim and a London–based former Colonel of… Read more…
China’s Azhar Volte Face Well Worked Strategy
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