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Cattle smuggling across India-Bangladesh border
— September 9, 2016

Durgapur IB; Lalmonirhat in northern fringe of Bangladesh. Video taken from Bangladesh side, January 2016
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PM Narendra Modi in ASEAN
— September 8, 2016

Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in the Laotian capital to attend the ASEAN-India and the East Asia Summits to strengthen India’s trade and security ties with the strategic Southeast Asian region. During his two-day visit, Modi is scheduled to have several bilateral meetings on the sidelines of the Summits, beginning with an interaction with Japanese…
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A moment of truth for ASEAN
— September 7, 2016

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…
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Philippines defends drug war at Asian summit
— September 6, 2016

The 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…
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Nitish demanded demolition of the Farakka Barrage
— August 24, 2016

Bihar 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…
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Philippine President says talks with China on sea – in a year
— August 24, 2016

Philippine 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…
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Assam Elephant dies after excessive tranquillising
— August 17, 2016

An 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…
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Why Dipa Karmakar ignored by media ?
— August 12, 2016
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Myanmar deports 2 Pakistanis, Malaysia, China follows
— August 12, 2016

LOOKEAST 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…
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Indian cold pills pour over remote Myanmar border
— August 10, 2016

ANDREW 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…
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