Philippine 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…
Read moreLOOKEAST 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…
Read moreANDREW 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…
Read moreNepal 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…
Read moreSUBHAMOY 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…
Read moreDipa 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….
Read moreLOOKEAST 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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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
