LOOKEAST REPORT | INDIA is all set to kick off its nationwide vaccination drive against Covid-19 on January 16. The Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) had earlier this month approved Oxford Covid-19 vaccine Covishield, manufactured by the Serum Institute of India, and indigenously developed Covaxin of Bharat Biotech for restricted emergency use in the…
Read moreZAW ZAW HTWE | YANGON MYANMAR has ordered 30 million doses of a COVID-19 vaccine from India that are due to arrive by February, according to the President’s Office. The Serum Institute of India, the world’s largest vaccine manufacturer, is producing the COVID-19 vaccine, called Covishield, that was developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca. …
Read moreKOLKATA | WEST Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday issued a stern warning against ‘anti–party activities’ and said TMC leaders in touch with the opposition are free to quit the ruling party in the state. Although the TMC supremo did not take any name, party sources said that her jibe was at disgruntled leader…
Read moreDHAKA | UNB BANGLADESH wants Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi to be present at a tripartite meeting in Beijing as proposed by China to discuss Rohingya repatriation issues. “It won’t be done without her presence. She should be there,” Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen conveyed it to China. Foreign Minister Momen said the number…
Read moreLOOKEAST REPORT | FORMER Deputy Prime Minister of Nepal, Kamal Thapa, reiterated his demand for the government to abdicate the ‘secular’ tag and restore the country’s Hindu identity on the Himalayan country’s Constitution Day. The long–pending demand for the restoration of Nepal’s earlier status as a Hindu state, which the Rastriya Prajatantra Party, led by…
Read moreLOOKEAST REPORT | THE world today is crippled by the throes of the ongoing COVID–19 Pandemic and the nations worldwide are collaborating and innovating to facilitate trans–border movement of goods and international trade for maintaining essential supply chains and for the welfare of humanity. Despite such positive endeavors to deal with this international emergency, some…
Read moreDHAKA | BSS INDIAN external affairs secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla called his Dhaka tour “very satisfactory” as he wrapped up the two–day visit holding bilateral meeting with Bangladesh foreign secretary Masud Bin Momen with COVID–19 vaccine issue appeared to have largely featured the meeting. “I have a very satisfactory visit, a very short visit,” he…
Read moreDHAKA | BSS INDIAN Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla arrived here today on a two–day visit, Bangladesh foreign ministry and Indian high commission officials said. “He is expected to have bilateral talks with our foreign secretary Masud Bin Momen tomorrow,” a Bangladesh foreign ministry official said, briefly adding that Shringla was likely to have a…
Read moreSUBIR BHAUMIK | AMID growing Indian suspicion about Bangladesh’s increasingly close ties with China and even its reaching out to Pakistan a letter from foreign minister S Jaishanker to his Bangladesh counterpart AKA Momen has helped ease tensions. Jaishanker’s 2 July letter reciprocates Momen’s congratulations over India’s becoming a non–permanent member of UN Security Council,…
Read moreSYED MOAZZEM ALI | DHAKA FOWING up on a detailed intelligence report suggesting direct links between a ‘Major Power’ and one of her powerful advisors to unseat the Sheikh Hasina government, grapevine in Dhaka seem to suggest the reopening of Anti–Corruption Commission probes into the 1996 and 2011 Bangladesh Stock Market scams. One of the advisers whose…
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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…
Human Language Is 135,000 Years Old ?
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Aravalli | An Uncertain Road Ahead
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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
