DAVID MAYUM / IMPHAL | The Khaplang faction of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland has unanimously elected Yung Aung as the new acting chairman of the party, at the same time impeaching Lt. Gen. Khango for violating the principles of the party, press release received said. On Friday, Khango Konyak was removed from the…
Read moreRUPAKJYOTI BORAH | The recent opening of two land–border crossings between India and Myanmar at Tamu–Moreh in the state of Manipur and Rihkhawdar–Zowkhawtar in Mizoram will go a long way toward bringing India and Myanmar closer. According to a statement issued by the Indian Embassy in Myanmar, “the landmark Land Border Crossing Agreement between India…
Read moreLOOKEAST REPORT | Former chief justice of Bangladesh Surendra Kumar Sinha has taken a huge amount of money from Mir Mamun, brother of war criminal Mir Quasem Ali, Bangladesh media reports quoting intelligence sources indicate. The payment was made in the chamber of an American dental surgeon who was treating Sinha’s wife this month. …
Read moreLOOKEAST INVESTIGATION | Bangladesh intelligence agencies have ferreted out the contours of a major conspiracy to bring down the Sheikh Hasina government masterminded by Dr Kamal Hossain who was once close to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Dr Kamal is trying to kick–start a widespread agitation for the ouster of the Sheikh Hasina government after the…
Read moreLOOKEAST REPORT | Top terrorist Mohammed Jahidul Islam, a leader of Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh or JMB, has been arrested in Bangalore and booked for his involvement in Bihar’s Bodh Gaya explosion, the National Investigation Agency has said. Jahidul had established a solid trans–border network of Islamist radicals spanning India and Bangladesh in the last four years…
Read moreLOOKEAST REPORT | The student protests in Bangladesh for road safety has come to an end. Prime minister Sheikh Hasina has accepted the student demands and they have heeded her appeal to return to classrooms. Some of the placards and the posters carried by the Calcutta demonstrators carried political messages and had nothing to…
Read moreJAKARTA | At least 91 people — all Indonesian — were killed by the 6.9–magnitude quake and more than 200 were injured, Indonesian authorities said Monday. Most of the dead were killed by falling debris. The number of victims is expected to rise, according to Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, the head of Indonesia’s disaster management department….
Read moreREUTERS | A powerful 6.4 magnitude earthquake struck the popular tourist island of Lombok in Indonesia on Sunday killing 14 people and sending villagers fleeing from their beds into open fields to avoid collapsing buildings. The quake, which rocked the island early in the morning when many people were still asleep, injured 162 people and…
Read moreANINDITA DASGUPTA | Ever since the time of Independence, the constant political refrain in this pivotal state of the Indian northeast has been the ‘inundation’ it is said to be facing from East Bengali, later Bangladeshi, “illegal” migrants. It was this issue which fuelled the sons–of–soil Assam Agitation of the late 1970s and early 1980s;…
Read moreLOOKEAST REPORT | ‘Allowing movement of cargo through small mechanised boats along India–Bangladesh protocol route will benefit local economy and create livelihoods’, said Mohammad Abu Jafor Howlader, Director, Marine Safety Traffic Management Department, Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA), Government of Bangladesh. He was delivering the keynote address at the India–Bangladesh Dialogue on ‘Prospects of cross–border…
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