LOOKEAST REPORT | PRIME Minister Sheikh Hasina asked the world community to take appropriate measures for sustainable repatriation of the Rohingyas for regional security and development, saying peace and harmony are essential for the prosperity of the region. “In terms of regional security, I would like to say that more than 1.1 million Rohingya citizens…
Read moreLt General PC Katoch (retd) | THE “historic moment” of the signing of the “landmark peace accord” in August 2015 between the government of India and the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN), in the presence of the prime minister, home minister and national security adviser, received extensive media coverage. Isak Chishi Swu, chairman, and…
Read moreLOOKEAST REPORT | MYANMARESE private airline Air KBZ will start operating twice–a–week flights on the Imphal—Mandalay route from Nov 23. Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh made the formal announcement of the first ever international flight from Imphal airport. This makes Imphal the second airport in Northeast to receive international flights. Bhutanese carrier Druk Air…
Read moreBHARAT KARNAD | THIS past fortnight, I was away, participating in the Yushan Forum 2019 in Taipei — an annual effort by the Taiwanese government to forge regional partnerships in the face of unrelentingly punitive policies of the communist China regime to isolate Taiwan, and thence to Istanbul where I sensed considerable unease among the…
Read morePTI | The government has ruled out a separate flag and constitution for the Nagas as demanded by the NSCN(IM), and made it clear that the endless negotiations with the insurgent group under the “shadow of guns” are not acceptable. Interlocutor for the Naga talks and Nagaland Governor RN Ravi said the government is determined…
Read moreLOOKEAST REPORT | THE BSF on Friday said the Bangladeshi action of killing their trooper and injuring another along the border in West Bengal was unprovoked and that its troops did not fire “a single bullet” when a flag meeting took place between the two sides. A senior official rejected the claim made by the…
Read moreLOOKEAST REPORT | IN a first of its kind incident, Bangladeshi border guards opened fire at a Border Security Force (BSF) team on Thursday killing a jawan after a ‘flag meeting’ along the Indo–Bangla riverine frontier in West Bengal, officials said. A second jawan was injured in the firing incident, they said. The action against…
Read moreLOOKEAST REPORT | BANGLADESH has become the second–fastest growing economy in South Asia after Bhutan. World Bank in its report ‘South Asia Economic Focus, Making (De) Centralisation Work’ — says that GDP growth rate of the country is projected to moderate to 7.2 per cent this fiscal year and 7.3 per cent in 2020 in…
Read moreANITA MATHUR | PRO–PAKISTAN leader of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), Mahmudur Rahman has smuggled out millions of dollars from Bangladesh to Malaysia into ‘Second Home’ scheme. Malaysian government started the “Malaysia My Second Home’ program. Between 2002 and 2010, at least 1,862 Bangladeshi nationals bought Malaysian citizenship. But the number continued growing in the subsequent…
Read moreLOOKEAST REPORT | THE NRC is “a must” for national security and will be implemented, Union Home Minister Amit Shah declared on Tuesday but made it clear that Hindu, Sikh, Jain and Buddhist refugees will be accorded Indian citizenship beforehand with the passage of the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill. Addressing a BJP seminar on the National Register…
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