LOOKEAST REPORT Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Bhutan have joined India in boycotting the forthcoming SAARC Summit scheduled at Islamabad in November. The Summit has been postponed, said a top source in Nepal’s foreign ministry after all three of India’s neighbours conveyed their inability to attend the summit to Nepal, the current chairperson of SAARC. It is…
Read moreSUBIR BHAUMIK Politicians often play to the gallery and talk much more than they should. When they speak on subjects they know little about, they make a fool of themselves. Flattery makes them believe they know all they survey but that is not true. The result often is huge faux pas and unseemly controversy. Tripura…
Read morePhilippine senators ousted a staunch critic of President Rodrigo Duterte from the leadership of a panel investigating an explosion of drug-related killings, squashing a rare domestic challenge to the bloody crackdown. Duterte’s war on drugs, the key plank of a poll campaign likened to that of U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump, has claimed more than…
Read moreDurgapur IB; Lalmonirhat in northern fringe of Bangladesh. Video taken from Bangladesh side, January 2016
Read morePrime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in the Laotian capital to attend the ASEAN-India and the East Asia Summits to strengthen India’s trade and security ties with the strategic Southeast Asian region. During his two-day visit, Modi is scheduled to have several bilateral meetings on the sidelines of the Summits, beginning with an interaction with Japanese…
Read moreBALADAS GHOSHAL A moment of truth has arrived for ASEAN, believed to be one of the most successful regional organizations in the world, with the verdict on 12 July by the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) in The Hague – the world’s oldest international tribunal for international resolutions of disputes between nations. It was the…
Read moreThe Philippines on Tuesday defended a surge in killings since Rodrigo Duterte became president over two months ago, handing out a 38-page pamphlet at a regional summit praising his campaign against illegal drugs in which thousands have died. “We are not butchers who just kill people for no apparent reason,” reads one page of the…
Read moreBihar CM Nitish Kumar has written to PM Narendra Modi seeking the Centre to consider demolishing the Farakka Barrage in West Bengal. Nitish wrote to the PM, a day before he met him in Delhi. FLOOD SITUATION Apprising the PM about the present flood situation in the state in which 95 lives have been…
Read morePhilippine President Rodrigo Duterte said that he expects talks with China on their South China Sea dispute within a year and he would not raise an international ruling rejecting China’s claims there when he attends a regional summit next month. An arbitration court in the Hague infuriated China in July when it ruled that China…
Read moreAn elephant thought to have travelled at least 1,000 miles (1,600km) from India into Bangladesh after floods separated it from the herd has died, despite efforts to save it. The distressed animal was tranquillised three times during repeated attempts to transport it to a safari park in Bangladesh, after the elephant crossed the border in late…
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