Bhutan did not ratify a regional motor vehicle agreement involving Bangladesh, India and Nepal because of concern over its impact on environment and culture, a senior Royal Bhutan Consulate General official said in an event in Kolkata. But the country would join the Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal Motor Vehicles Agreement (BBIN MVA) after addressing these…
Read moreLOOKEAST REPORT MYANMAR’s army has vowed to throw out all anti-Indian rebels from the country’s Northeast from Burmese territory. While speaking at the recently held India-Myanmar regional border committee meeting, Major General Phone Myat, commander of Tatmadaw’s North West Command told the Indian commanders that his forces would fight these rebel groups and chase them…
Read moreLOOKEAST REPORT India has offered to share real-time intelligence of maritime movements in the Indian Ocean with 10 countries that participated in a Naval Conclave in the country’s Goa state last week. Myanmar, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Mauritius, Bangladesh, Maldives, Seychelles and Singapore sent their senior naval and maritime heads to the conference held…
Read moreAssam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Saturday urged people to stand united and defeat the evil designs of some quarters trying to create problems in the updating of National Register of Citizens (NRC). The NRC of 1951 is now being updated to identify original residents of the state to check illegal migration. The draft NRC…
Read moreLOOKEAST REPORT Lhasa Chengtou, a football team that takes regular oxygen breaks due to the stifling altitude of their stadium 3,658 meters (12,000 feet) above sea level, has become the first Tibetan side to reach China’s professional leagues. Chengtou play their home games at the 735-million-yuan ($110 million) Lhasa Recreational and Sports Centre, situated in…
Read moreLOOKEAST REPORT The Indian and Bangladeshi armies are all set to hold an intensive combat exercise at the Counter-Insurgency and Jungle Warfare School at Vairengte in Mizoram from next week as part of the overall policy to bolster bilateral military ties. The aim behind “Exercise Sampriti”, which will be conducted from November 6 to 18, is…
Read moreLOOKEAST EXCLUSIVE Scores of foreign militants — mostly Pakistanis and Bangladeshis — are fighting besides rebels of the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) since radical groups across the Islamic world called for ‘a jihad against Burmese colonialism’ in the Arakans (Rakhine). Indian intelligence officials say they have intercepted communication between some of the Pakistani militants…
Read moreLOOKEAST REPORT 18 unidentified youths were nabbed by villagers in a remote Tripura border village on Sunday evening. The border with Bangladesh’s Coomilla was fenced but about 100 men from Bangladesh tried to break through the fence gate. No Border Security Force personnel were around when the trespassers approached. Brave villagers, mostly Muslims, challenged them…
Read moreLOOKEAST EXCLUSIVE Counter-terrorism officials are interrogating a BNP front affiliate leader after intelligence intercepted his conversation with BNP senior vice chairman Tarique Rahman that suggested a possible hit on the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. LOOKEAST has earlier reported a failed assassination bid on Hasina, to debunk which the DGFI and their paid agents unleashed a…
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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
