BALADAS GHOSHAL A moment of truth has arrived for ASEAN, believed to be one of the most successful regional organizations in the world, with the verdict on 12 July by the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) in The Hague – the world’s oldest international tribunal for international resolutions of disputes between nations. It was the…
Read moreThe Philippines on Tuesday defended a surge in killings since Rodrigo Duterte became president over two months ago, handing out a 38-page pamphlet at a regional summit praising his campaign against illegal drugs in which thousands have died. “We are not butchers who just kill people for no apparent reason,” reads one page of the…
Read moreBihar CM Nitish Kumar has written to PM Narendra Modi seeking the Centre to consider demolishing the Farakka Barrage in West Bengal. Nitish wrote to the PM, a day before he met him in Delhi. FLOOD SITUATION Apprising the PM about the present flood situation in the state in which 95 lives have been…
Read morePhilippine President Rodrigo Duterte said that he expects talks with China on their South China Sea dispute within a year and he would not raise an international ruling rejecting China’s claims there when he attends a regional summit next month. An arbitration court in the Hague infuriated China in July when it ruled that China…
Read moreAn elephant thought to have travelled at least 1,000 miles (1,600km) from India into Bangladesh after floods separated it from the herd has died, despite efforts to save it. The distressed animal was tranquillised three times during repeated attempts to transport it to a safari park in Bangladesh, after the elephant crossed the border in late…
Read moreLOOKEAST SPECIAL REPORT Two Pakistanis, Kazim Ali, 20, and Rahil Shahid, 22, were sent back to Lahore via Bangkok from Kuala Lumpur on Aug 6, top Malaysian sources said. Malaysia is a Muslim-predominant country but its government is opposed to Islamist radicalism and responds harshly against groups or individuals preaching that. It is one country where controversial Islamist…
Read moreANDREW R.C. MARSHALL | TAMU, MYANMAR Five years ago, when cold pills first trickled across Myanmar’s untamed border with India, many local officials were baffled. Where was this medicine going, and why were smugglers so interested in it? Today, the cross-border trickle has become a torrent and everyone knows why the Indian-made pills are so valuable: they are bound…
Read moreNepal wants to develop trilateral relations with its two big neighbours – India and China, the country’s new Prime Minister Prachanda said on Tuesday. Prime Minister and CPN-Maoist Centre chairman Prachanda, during a meeting with delegates from China Institute of Contemporary Relations at the Prime Minister’s official residence in Kathmandu told them that he was “keen…
Read moreSUBHAMOY BHATTACHARJEE Bokakhat, Assam School children of “Nepali Khuti Banuwa Prathamik Bidyalaya,” an unexplored dot in the map of Assam have sacrificed one-day’s mid-day meal for rhino conservation in Kaziranga National Park. The eight (8) flood rescued rhino calves under care at the Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation (CWRC) become a serious concern for these…
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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…
