The Guardian Myanmar’s military is building bases where Rohingya homes and mosques once stood, Amnesty International said on Monday, citing new evidence from satellite imagery. Nearly 700,000 members of the Muslim minority fled to Bangladesh in 2017 after Myanmar launched a brutal crackdown on insurgents that the US and UN have called ethnic cleansing. Myanmar rejects that accusation, saying it was responding to attacks… Read more »
Al-Jazeera Buddhist flags hang limply from bamboo poles at the entrance to Koe Tan Kauk, a “model” village for ethnic Rakhine migrants shuttled north to repopulate an area once dominated by Muslim-majority Rohingya. The new arrivals are moving to parts of Rakhine state mostly “cleared” of its Rohingya residents, whose villages were bulldozed and reduced to muddy stains on a landscape of… Read more »
Al-Jazeera One of India‘s busiest cities could soon run out of water. Bangalore is a hub of high technology, but urban growth, neglect and unpredictable rainfall are combining to make the city dry. The city’s population has doubled over the last 15 years to more than 10 million, as young IT workers arrive to take up hi-tech jobs. But about half… Read more »
France 24 At least 40 people died on Monday when a passenger plane carrying 70 people crashed as it prepared to land at Kathmandu airport, Nepal. The cause of the accident was not immediately clear. In addition, 23 people were injured when the Bangladeshi plane crashed and burst into flames near the capital’s airport, in the worst aviation disaster to… Read more »
Switzerland is starting to get bank account information on citizens from India and giving the information to Indian government. Starting in November of 2018 Switzerland is done being associated with black money. Baum was in Coimbatore to inaugurate a slew of projects under CAPAcities that focusses on capacity building for low carbon and climate resilient city development in India funded by… Read more »
COIMBATORE: The Switzerland government began gathering information on bank account holders from India starting in January this year and the list will be shared with the Indian government in 2019, said Switzerland’s ambassador to India and Bhutan, Andreas Baum, on Thursday. Baum said as per the agreement signed by the Swiss government in November 2018, the government had started work… Read more »
The country’s most populous state sends 31 MPs to the 245-member Rajya Sabha, and the BJP, which won a massive victory in the 2017 Assembly elections, is yet to get a lion’s share of these. With 83 members in the Upper House, the NDA is well short of a majority. The BJP has 58 Rajya Sabha MPs. LUCKNOW: A day… Read more »
MUMBAI: Former Kerala BJP president V Muraleedharan, who was elected unopposed to the Rajya Sabha from Maharashtra on Thursday, said his party is aiming to win the 2021 Assembly polls in his home state. Talking to reporters here, Muraleedharan said Kerala is the last bastion of the Left, and the BJP is working towards winning it in 2021. “In the… Read more »
BENGALURU: The Uttar Pradesh Lok Sabha bypoll results will have no “direct” bearing on the coming assembly polls in Karnatakawhere the electoral dynamics is different, say political parties. Wilting under the combined onslaught of the SP-BSP, the BJP suffered an embarrassing electoral reverse, losing the Gorakhpur seat which Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had retained for five terms, and… Read more »
The central Asian region seems to finally becoming together, and stronger as well. The five major players in the central Asian region which are Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan all plan to come together about the future of the region. It is expected that the foreign minister of Russia will be in attendance to and they will discuss the… Read more »
