An ambitious road connectivity plan involving Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Nepal (BBIN) — an initiative pushed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to boost trade — has hit a roadblock with the upper house of Bhutan parliament deciding against ratifying the motor vehicle pact on Wednesday. The BBIN agreement – signed in Bhutan’s capital Thimpu in…
Read moreWith public anger rising across the country over limited cash availability, the government eased key restrictions including raising daily withdrawal limit from bank counters and ATM as well as hiking the amount of old and now defunct currency notes that can be exchanged. To augment cash supplies, newly printed hard-to-fake Rs 500 notes were also…
Read moreLOOKEAST EXCLUSIVE The arrest of two Burmese nationals Khin Maung Win and Kar Mar Din, in Bangkok on October 9, for their involvement in drug trafficking and the fake documentation racket has revealed that Pakistan is increasingly using Myanmar as the ingress point to pump fake Indian currency notes (FICN) into India. During their questioning, the two suspects informed the Thai police that they were being used as couriers to transport large consignments of FICN from Bangkok, via Myanmar, into India. The…
Read moreChina today sought to dispel the view that it was against India’s entry into the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG). “The notion that China is against India’s entry into NSG is not right. India and China are working together in this regard,” Consul General of China in Kolkata, Zhanwu Ma said. “Entry of any country into…
Read moreThe attacks on several Hindu temples in Bangladesh were carried out under a well-orchestrated plan aimed at grabbing lands of the minority community, the country’s top rights body said today. The statutory National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) said their initial investigation into the attacks on several Hindu temples and households in the central Brahmanbaria districts…
Read moreFRANCESCO SISCI Clearly the big prize is to dominate the Politburo and the Central Committee at the Party Congress next year, and thus to have the votes to push through the changes and the reforms he deems necessary to move the country forward. “He” is Xi Jinping, head of the party, the government, and the…
Read morePhilippine president Rodrigo Duterte, currently on a state visit to Beijing, has made clear that he admires many things about China, and has even gone so far as to say “I am Chinese” (referring to his grandfather apparently coming from Xiamen). But perhaps what he appreciates most about China is that it doesn’t criticize the way…
Read morePhilippine President Rodrigo Duterte arrived in Beijing Tuesday evening, beginning his four-day visit to China. Choosing China as the first country outside the ASEAN since taking office in June, Duterte makes the visit amid a backdrop of deteriorating China-Philippines ties, due to the unilateral filing of the South China Sea arbitration case initiated by his predecessor Benigno…
Read moreIt’s been about 100 days into the presidency of Rodrigo Duterte. Since he took power, the Philippine president has overseen the killing of more than 3,500 people in his war on drugs, offended world leaders and strained relations with the US. In an interview since he was sworn in, we talk to Duterte about his…
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Prasanta Paul | OIL India Limited (OIL) has stepped up exploration and supportive logistic work in the wake of striking… Read more…
West Bengal | Who Will Toll The Bell For BJP In Birbhum ?
Special Correspondent February 17, 2026 THE chapters in the controversial multi–crore teacher recruitment scam in West Bengal are yet to… Read more…
Rohingya Immigrants A Big Burden On Bangladesh | Hasina
PRIME MINISTER Sheikh Hasina calls Rohingya immigrants a big burden on Bangladesh, wants India to take more of them. Meanwhile,… Read more…
