This week was the first time that the 6000 Rohingya muslims were settled towards Myanmar and Bangladesh. For the past few weeks these people had been stranded between the no mans land of Bangladesh and Myanmar. Over the past few months the Rohingya people have been ‘ethnically cleansed’ from their own countries and have been forced to leave. Myanmars government… Read more »
HELPING AFGHANISTAN. This handout photo taken on February 17, 2018 and released by the Indian Press Information Bureau (PIB) shows Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (R) and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani during a joint press briefing at Hyderabad House in New Delhi. The Iranian President is on a three-day official visit to India. AFP PHOTO/PIB NEW DELHI, India – Indian… Read more »
Pakistan’s supreme court has barred Nawaz Sharif from his position as president of the country’s ruling party, ordering the reversal of all decisions he has taken in the role, in a move that plunges the country’s politics into fresh uncertainty. The former prime minister, who was sacked by the supreme court last year, had managed to retain power by driving through a… Read more »
Myanmar’s government is using bulldozers to erase dozens of villages in Rakhine state in a vast operation that rights groups say is destroying evidence of mass atrocities against the ethnic Rohingya Muslim minority. Satellite images released by Colorado-based DigitalGlobe on Friday show the empty villages and hamlets completely levelled by authorities in recent weeks. The villages were all set ablaze in the… Read more »
“It was really difficult for me to get here. We came from really far away. We ran and ran and somehow got here. Even when I think about it now, it makes me want to cry,” Normeen told me. Normeen is from Myanmar’s Rohingya community. Her family were shrimp farmers in Rakhine state. They had recently built a house, after… Read more »
Since the Partition of India in 1947, India, Pakistan, and China have contested each other for control over the Kashmir region in the northernmost corner of the Indian subcontinent, with the region itself being divided up between the three powers. India and Pakistan have fought multiple wars over the region during the 20th century, and even to this day there… Read more »
NEW DELHI: The Centre will not offer money to beneficiaries in place of take-home rations provided at anganwadis as proposed earlier, state governments have been told. The government’s think-tank NITI Aayog in its national nutrition strategy had recommended initiating pilot schemes in a few districts to test if cash transfers could replace the provision of take-home rations and supplementary nutrition… Read more »
NEW DELHI: Former chief ministers and many other VIPs will no longer be allowed to drive right up to aircraft at airports in their home states, in their own vehicles. The aviation ministry has decided that “tarmac access” to such have beens’ will neither be open-ended, meaning the permission will come with an up to date, nor be allowed in… Read more »
LUCKNOW: Pitching for developing local defence production, Union minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday said the country has been “blindly buying” from abroad instead of using its own facilities which can help reduce the import bill. India is the world’s third largest buyer of arms and equipment but in the absence of a good plan to reduce imports through local production,… Read more »
BEIJING: India, China and Nepal should step up “sound interaction for win-win outcomes”, Beijing on Thursday said as it congratulated the new Nepalese government headed by K P Oli. After winning the recent parliamentary elections, Oli, widely regarded as pro-China, had said he wants to deepen ties with China to explore more options and get more leverage in his dealings… Read more »