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Sandbar Woman
— April 20, 2020
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Rohingya | Who Attended Markaz, MHA Directs States To Screen Them And Their Contacts
— April 18, 2020

LOOKEAST REPORT | TABLIGHI Jamaat has emerged as the biggest vector for the spread of the Wuhan Coronavirus pandemic across Indian subcontinent. Since the massive gathering at the Markaz Nizamuddin was busted, the Islamic Missionary organisation has contributed a lion’s share to the total number of Coronavirus cases. Now, it is reported that even Rohingya Muslims,…
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‘Mentally Challenged’ Woman Stagnant Along India–Bangladesh Border
— April 14, 2020

LOOKEAST REPORT | The position of the mentally–challenged woman has now been changed with the change of water level of river Feni due to recent rainfall in the region. The ill woman is now Bangladeshi side of the border, near the BGB temporary tent post. OFFICIALS in Tripura confirmed a middle–aged woman, who is reportedly…
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Tripura Invokes ESMA After Nurses Complain Of Shortage Of Protective Gears
— April 10, 2020

LOOKEAST REPORT | The Tripura government has invoked the Essential Services Management Act (ESMA) after a group of nurses at a state–run hospital here complained about shortage of masks and other protective equipment in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak. Tripura is the second state after Madhya Pradesh to have enforced the Act of 1986,…
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Chinese Pandemic
— April 7, 2020

BRAHMA CHELLANEY | THE new COVID–19 coronavirus has spread to more than 100 countries – bringing social disruption, economic damage, sickness, and death – largely because authorities in China, where it emerged, initially suppressed information about it. And yet China is now acting as if its decision not to limit exports of active pharmaceutical ingredients…
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Geopolitical Revolution Of The Chinese Virus
— March 18, 2020

FRANCESCO SISICI | A geopolitical whirlwind has just started, following the consequences of the spread of the coronavirus, which is grinding global economies to a halt and crashing markets. The virus is changing the world as we knew it. TEMPEST ON THE LARGE MEDITERRANCAN The whole of Italy was put in a lockdown on…
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Book Offers New Understanding To Indo—Myanmar Borderlands
— February 20, 2020

SUBIR BHAUMIK | ELEVEN articles by scholars and journalists have sought to provide a fresh outlook to understanding the borderlands of India and Myanmar, which have been in ferment since both countries became independent. Nicely worked into a compendium by ORF researchers Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury and Pahi Saikia of IIT–Guwahati, the volume published by Routledge…
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China Denies Supplying Arms To Burmese Armed Groups
— January 20, 2020

SOE THU AUNG | IN a meeting with Myanmar Defence Services Commander in Chief, Chinese President Xi Jinping denied his country was supplying arms to ethnic armed organizations (EAOs) in Myanmar. Visiting Chinese President Xi met Senior General Min Aung Hlaing at the Reception Hall of Horizon Lake View Resort in Naypyitaw last Saturday. …
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Tripura Royal Scion Fighting For Existence
— January 10, 2020

LOOKEAST REPORT | THE Tripura High Court has upheld the state government’s claim on the famous Neermahal Lake Palace while disposing a petition challenging its ownership. The Neermahal was built by the state’s Manikya monarchs on the model of the Udaipur Lake Palace in Rajasthan called Jal Mahal. A division bench headed by Chief Justice…
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Poking The Dragon
— December 5, 2019

AKSHAY NARANG | THE recent ‘2+2’ Dialogue between India and Japan at New Delhi with the Foreign and Defence Ministers of the two countries has come as a major cause of worry for Beijing. India seems to have made crucial inroads as far as luring Japan into investing in the North–east including the state of…
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