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…
Read moreGUWAHATI | 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…
Read moreBangladesh Ship Rescues Indian Fisherman One of 25 missing fishermen was rescued alive by a commercial vessel of Bangladesh near Chittagong on Wednesday morning after five days. Crew members of the Bangladesh vessel who rescued him could not believe that he managed to float in the rough sea and sustain without water, food and life…
Read moreLOOKEAST REPORT | NATIONAL Investigation Agency (NIA) busted a bomb manufacturing unit in Bengaluru, Karnataka and recovered grenades and an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) from the location. Apart from the incriminating material, three persons from Bangladesh were also detained from the location. The NIA received the information about the bomb manufacturing unit through a Burdwan…
Read morePTI | NEW DELHI TATA Motors said in a statement it has received an order for over 200 units of its sports utility vehicle HEXA from Bangladesh Army. The company said it has won the contract for the four–wheel drive version of the model. Tata Hexa is being made available exclusively for the use…
Read moreLOOKEAST EXCLUSIVE | INDIAN intelligence agencies are probing a deep–rooted nexus involving underworld don Dawood Ibrahim and a London–based former Colonel of the Bangladesh army. The agencies suspect that the Bangladeshi army officer, allegedly involved in gun running, has links with Dawood Ibrahim’s underworld activities operating from India’s eastern borders. What prompted the intelligence agencies to probe the nexus…
Read moreLOOKEAST REPORT | Senior BJP leader Mukul Roy blamed West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee for the clashes in North 24 Parganas’ Sandeshkhali on Saturday that claimed three lives, and demanded an investigation into the violence by anti–terror probe agency NIA. After the clashes in North 24 Parganas district’s Sandeshkhali on Saturday night, bodies of…
Read moreSWADESH ROY | TARIQUE Rahman, son of Khaleda Zia, the leader of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) is now in exile in London. He received two punishments from the apex court of Bangladesh. In a money laundering case, he got seven years’ jail, and in the dangerous 21 August case, which was also an attempt to…
Read moreZAW NAING OO | A court in Myanmar has issued an arrest warrant for a nationalist Buddhist monk, Wirathu, on a charge of sedition, police said. Wirathu is known for his rhetoric against minority Muslims, particularly the Rohingya community, but he has also been critical of the civilian government of Aung San Suu Kyi and…
Read morePTI | THE Indian Navy has successfully test–fired a Medium Range Surface to Air missile (MRSAM), achieving a significant milestone to enhance its anti–air warfare capability, the defence ministry said Friday. The test–firing of the missile was undertaken on the western seaboard by Indian naval ships Kochi and Chennai. “The Indian Navy achieved a significant…
Read more‘Gold’ In The Andaman & Nicobar Basin
Prasanta Paul | OIL India Limited (OIL) has stepped up exploration and supportive logistic work in the wake of striking… Read more…
Human Language Is 135,000 Years Old ?
Prasanta Paul | WHEN did homo sapiens start using words or to be specific – a language – for communication… Read more…
Aravalli | An Uncertain Road Ahead
Dr Manas Das | THERE seems to be a temporary lull among environmental activists and civil society as the Supreme… Read more…
Election Commission of India has decided to deploy at least 480 companies of Central Forces in various troubled parts of West Bengal from March 1
