SARA PERRIA In the mountain village of Kalaw, Myanmar, women in bamboo hats are busy laying the foundations of a road. They woke at dawn, ate fish soup for breakfast and then joined other female colleagues in the boiling sun. Surrounded by red soil and gravel, the five-month baby of 21-year-old Cho Mi Ko is also on…
Read moreSUHAS CHAKMA On 14 December 2006, King Jigme Singye Wangchuk of Bhutan announced abdication of the crown and coronated his eldest son Prince Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuk the new ruler of Bhutan. Earlier in December 2005, King Jigme Singye Wangchuk had announced his decision to step down in 2008. The King’s abdication of power in favour of…
Read moreCOL. R. HARIHARAN Sandwiched between two huge powers – India and China – Bangladesh has little option but to do a strategic tightrope walk in its external relations. While India is trying to flex its economic and political power beyond the confines of South Asia, China is bent upon becoming a global economic and military…
Read moreNayachar is a 40 square kilometre island in the Hooghly River, near Haldia port in India’s West Bengal. It is the new site for a chemical hub that was originally proposed to be set up at Nandigram, a village in Midnapore district. Violent protests against land acquisition at Nandigram had claimed over 15 lives in…
Read moreAt U-S Dollars twelve billion, the POSCO (POSH-KO) project is the largest foreign direct investment in India. According to the M-O-U signed between the company and state government, the plant will produce twelve million tonnes of steel per year and hire about forty-eight-thousand people. But the project has attracted a lot of controversy over its…
Read moreITANAGAR: Chief Minister Nabam Tuki has strongly refuted and rubbished the allegations levelled by three MLAs from Tirap and Longding, Thangwang Wangham, Honchun Ngandam and Gabriel D Wangsu of using the NSCN (K) to coerce representatives from Tirap, Changlang and Longding (TCL) to support his leadership.While terming the allegation as baseless, unfounded, wild and made…
Read moreHello we go to the Indian state of West Bengal where thousands of farmers continue to protest forcible acquisition of prime agricultural land for Special Economic Zones or S-E-Zs. In a bid to boost the national economy, India has been promoting this particular model of industrialization based on creating export-oriented tax-free enclaves. The policy of…
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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
