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Myanmar deports 2 Pakistanis, Malaysia, China follows
— August 12, 2016LOOKEAST SPECIAL REPORT Two Pakistanis, Kazim Ali, 20, and Rahil Shahid, 22, were sent back to Lahore via Bangkok from Kuala Lumpur on Aug 6, top Malaysian sources said. Malaysia is a Muslim-predominant country but its government is opposed to Islamist radicalism and responds harshly against groups or individuals preaching that. It is one country where controversial Islamist…
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Indian cold pills pour over remote Myanmar border
— August 10, 2016ANDREW R.C. MARSHALL | TAMU, MYANMAR Five years ago, when cold pills first trickled across Myanmar’s untamed border with India, many local officials were baffled. Where was this medicine going, and why were smugglers so interested in it? Today, the cross-border trickle has become a torrent and everyone knows why the Indian-made pills are so valuable: they are bound…
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Nepal eager to have trilateral ties with India, China: Prachanda
— August 9, 2016Nepal wants to develop trilateral relations with its two big neighbours – India and China, the country’s new Prime Minister Prachanda said on Tuesday. Prime Minister and CPN-Maoist Centre chairman Prachanda, during a meeting with delegates from China Institute of Contemporary Relations at the Prime Minister’s official residence in Kathmandu told them that he was “keen…
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Little hands come forward to save baby rhinos
— August 8, 2016SUBHAMOY BHATTACHARJEE Bokakhat, Assam School children of “Nepali Khuti Banuwa Prathamik Bidyalaya,” an unexplored dot in the map of Assam have sacrificed one-day’s mid-day meal for rhino conservation in Kaziranga National Park. The eight (8) flood rescued rhino calves under care at the Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation (CWRC) become a serious concern for these…
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Dipa Karmakar in Rio2016
— August 8, 2016Dipa Karmakar remained in the hunt for a place in the Olympic vault finals after finishing sixth in the qualifiers in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday. The Tripura-girl, who is the country’s first woman gymnast to qualify for the Olympics, managed to perform her much-appreciated ‘Produnova’ vault cleanly to secure 14.850 points after two attempts….
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Sharmila blamed for planning marriage
— August 6, 2016LOOKEAST REPORT In a sharp turnaround of events, the iron lady of Manipur, Irom Sharmila Chanu has now been physically threatened for calling off her fast and for her decision to marry an ‘outsider’ and contest polls. After sixteen years of fast that has nearly destroyed her body and weakened her resolve, Irom Sharmila finally…
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NDFB(S) and ISI jointly planned Kokrajhar attack
— August 5, 2016The NDFB(S) group that is suspected to have carried out the deadly attack in Assam’s Kokrajhar district on Friday has strong links with ISI, says former DGP Assam Ghanashyam Murari Srivastava. GMS said that the militant group was mentored by the Pakistani intelligence agency Inter-Services Intelligence to carry out terror strikes in Assam in a…
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Prachanda becomes PM for the 2nd time
— August 4, 2016Maoist chief Prachanda was elected by lawmakers as Nepal’s Prime Minister for a second time. The 61-year-old leader promised to lead the nation toward economic development and work as a bridge between communities following deadly protests over a divisive new Constitution. Though Pushpa Kamal Dahal — better known by his nom de guerre ‘Prachanda’ —…
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