LOOKEAST REPORT | At least 10,000 farmers, Bargadars and agricultural workers launched a massive march towards Kolkata on Wednesday. The national highway lit up in the afternoon sun, as the farming community of rural Bengal, holding aloft giant Red flags, briskly covered 10 kms in just under three hours. The gritty farmers and farm workers…
Read moreLOOKEAST REPORT | HIZB–ut–Tahrir supporters marched without fear in Dhaka on Monday with police nowhere in sight. What does this indicate ! A colossal failure of the police and its chief Javed Patwari. On Monday, around 30 members of Hizb–ut–Tahrir led a procession in Shahbagh, Dhaka. They were seen carrying a banner and chanting slogans,…
Read moreLOOKEAST REPORT | THE ULFA has issued a denial yet again, saying the interview of its military wing chief Paresh Barua in the WEEK magazine was false. “Our leader has not given any such interview to anybody in the WEEK magazine,” said a statement by ULFA. But the WEEK stood by its story and carried…
Read moreKOLKATA | SUSPICIOUS signals in coded languages in an around Kolkata for the past few weeks have been intercepted by Amateur Ham Radio Operators, prompting authorities to deploy round–the–clock monitoring of radio signals. The first such incident came into light just ahead of Diwali, after an Amateur Ham Radio Operator picked up suspicious radio signals…
Read moreAssociated Press | AN American adventurer who kayaked to a remote Indian island populated by a tribe known for shooting at outsiders with bows and arrows has been killed, police said Wednesday. Officials said they were working with anthropologists to recover the body. John Allen Chau, 26, was identified as the victim by Jeff King,…
Read moreYANGON | Eight months pregnant, shamed by her family and shunned by the father of her child, Aye Mar has accepted she will have to give up her baby to an orphanage in Myanmar, a country where single mothers are ostracised and deemed a “disgrace”. For now, she is taking refuge in a house in…
Read moreGUNJAN SINGH | It is essential at this time to reanalyse India–Bhutan relations in the backdrop of the Chinese inroads in South Asia. The recently concluded elections in Bhutan point to a wave of change in its domestic politics as the people of the landlocked country have voted a new party into power. How the…
Read moreLOOKEAST EXCLUSIVE | NOW that the Jamaat–e–Islami is sure that BNP will contest the forthcoming Bangladesh polls, it has decided to join the fray. But it has lost the party’s registration with the Election Commission, the Jamaat is seeking to contest in the election as part of the 20–Party Alliance on the BNP symbol ‘sheaf of…
Read moreCOX’S BAZAR | 5:45 PM (BDT) Bangladesh officials say plans to begin repatriating more than 700,000 Rohingya Muslim refugees to Myanmar have been scrapped after officials failed to find any who wanted to go. Refugee Commissioner Abul Kalam told media on Thursday that the refugees “are not willing to go back now,” adding that officials “can’t…
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