LOOKEAST DESK A Buddhist mob has reportedly set a mosque on fire in northern Myanmar in a fresh act of violence against Muslim minorities in the Southeast Asian country. A mob wielding weapons razed a Muslim prayer hall in northern Myanmar, the second attack on a mosque in just over a week as anti-Muslim sentiment swells…
Read moreBangladesh commandos have launched a fierce assault on the Holey Artisan Bakery in Dhaka’s diplomatic zone of Gulshan early on Saturday to free the hostages holed up there since Friday night. 12 hostages have been freed, 5 terrorists killed and one captured by the security forces, an official of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) told…
Read moreSAMIR PURKAYASTHA Don’t turn forest into coffins — try bamboos for making them. That is what the leading youth group in India’s north-eastern state of Mizoram is asking the state’s majority Christian populace to do. Instead of using wood from forest which would mean hacking down trees like teak and sal, the Young Mizo Association (YMA) has tied up with the…
Read moreThe gunmen, who laid siege at a Dhaka restaurant have killed 20 hostages, says a spokesperson of the Bangladesh Army. “We have found 20 bodies and all of them were murdered in the night using sharp weapons,” Brigadier General Nayeem Ashfaq Chowdhury told a media briefing on Saturday. He said that 13 people, including a…
Read moreZHENGLI HUANG / XIANGMING CHEN “The US destroys and China builds,” was how a taxi driver from Ethiopia in Washington DC responded to Chen’s question about China’s main activity in Africa. Building is what China has been doing, on a massive scale, with projects of all kinds sited in African cities and spread across this…
Read moreExercise Jalrahat Elite Special Forces of Indian Army and Indian Navy in association with Indian Air Force, NDRF, SDRF jointly taking part at the flood rescue demonstration on the mighty Brahmaputra using various rescue boats and techniques, helicopters, aircraft during rescue operation practice as part of National Level Exercise for Flood Relief following National Disaster Management Plan…
Read moreLOOKEAST REPORT The Assam government has defended the Centre’s decision to auction 12 oilfields in the state, amid stiff opposition from All Assam Students Union (AASU). But oil industry sources and analysts doubt whether any major global company would come for the global bidding of the micro and mini oilfields in Assam. The powerful AASU, which…
Read moreRUPA CHINAI | ‘Kuknalim‘, or ‘victory to the land’, is a greeting that has been long associated with the Naga freedom struggle. When Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the sensitive border state of Nagaland to inaugurate the Hornbill Festival in December 2014, he ended his speech with a resounding triple invocation of ‘kuknalim’, surprising and impressing his…
Read moreSUBIR BHAUMIK Tupul (Manipur) Indian policy makers talk of a Delhi-Hanoi railway link as if it is close to reality , but plans are yet to firmed up for linking up Indian and Myanmar railway systems, without which the Trans-Asian railway can never materialise. “If India and Myanmar railway systems are not connected and synchronised, the…
Read moreBUREAU DESK Issac Chishi Swu, co-founder of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN) has died. Swu joined the Naga National Council in the early 1960s and led the second batch of Naga rebels to China with Mowu Angami in 1967-68. When the NNC pitched for a settlement with India and finally signed the 1975…
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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
