LOOKEAST REPORT | The position of the mentally–challenged woman has now been changed with the change of water level of river Feni due to recent rainfall in the region. The ill woman is now Bangladeshi side of the border, near the BGB temporary tent post. OFFICIALS in Tripura confirmed a middle–aged woman, who is reportedly…
Read moreLOOKEAST REPORT | The Tripura government has invoked the Essential Services Management Act (ESMA) after a group of nurses at a state–run hospital here complained about shortage of masks and other protective equipment in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak. Tripura is the second state after Madhya Pradesh to have enforced the Act of 1986,…
Read moreBRAHMA CHELLANEY | THE new COVID–19 coronavirus has spread to more than 100 countries – bringing social disruption, economic damage, sickness, and death – largely because authorities in China, where it emerged, initially suppressed information about it. And yet China is now acting as if its decision not to limit exports of active pharmaceutical ingredients…
Read moreFRANCESCO SISICI | A geopolitical whirlwind has just started, following the consequences of the spread of the coronavirus, which is grinding global economies to a halt and crashing markets. The virus is changing the world as we knew it. TEMPEST ON THE LARGE MEDITERRANCAN The whole of Italy was put in a lockdown on…
Read moreSUBIR BHAUMIK | ELEVEN articles by scholars and journalists have sought to provide a fresh outlook to understanding the borderlands of India and Myanmar, which have been in ferment since both countries became independent. Nicely worked into a compendium by ORF researchers Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury and Pahi Saikia of IIT–Guwahati, the volume published by Routledge…
Read moreSOE THU AUNG | IN a meeting with Myanmar Defence Services Commander in Chief, Chinese President Xi Jinping denied his country was supplying arms to ethnic armed organizations (EAOs) in Myanmar. Visiting Chinese President Xi met Senior General Min Aung Hlaing at the Reception Hall of Horizon Lake View Resort in Naypyitaw last Saturday. …
Read moreLOOKEAST REPORT | THE Tripura High Court has upheld the state government’s claim on the famous Neermahal Lake Palace while disposing a petition challenging its ownership. The Neermahal was built by the state’s Manikya monarchs on the model of the Udaipur Lake Palace in Rajasthan called Jal Mahal. A division bench headed by Chief Justice…
Read moreAKSHAY NARANG | THE recent ‘2+2’ Dialogue between India and Japan at New Delhi with the Foreign and Defence Ministers of the two countries has come as a major cause of worry for Beijing. India seems to have made crucial inroads as far as luring Japan into investing in the North–east including the state of…
Read moreLOOKEAST REPORT | BORDER Guards Bangladesh (BGB) have recently detained a huge number of people who trying to cross over to the country of origin (Bangladesh) through Maheshpur border in the wake of the Indian federal government’s announcement that the National Register of Citizens (NRC) would be implemented throughout India. Commanding Officer of 58 BGB,…
Read moreLOOKEAST REPORT | WEST Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee assured people that she will never allow NRC in the state even as Union home minister Amit Shah on Wednesday said a citizen’s list on the lines of the exercise in Assam will be carried out across the country. The TMC supremo sought answers from the…
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