Smiling toddler twins Nima and Dawa are ready to leave their temporary Aussie home for a new start as individual girls in Bhutan. Five months after they arrived in Melbourne as conjoined 15-month-olds, the adorable tots have been given the medical green light and are due to jet to their Himalayan home on Wednesday. Surgeons at Melbourne’s Royal Children’s Hospital… Read more »
KATHMANDU: Nepal has chosen a railway-track gauge used by China for its network and not the main one India uses citing lower costs, a minister said on Tuesday, a setback for India as it tries to limit Chinese involvement in the Himalayan country. Last year, India proposed laying a broad-gauge (1,676 mm) rail link from Bihar’s Raxaul to the Nepali… Read more »
On Tuesday morning, India began launching airstrikes aimed at militant targets in Pakistani-controlled Kashmir. This course of action was provoked because India had reason to believe that it was the target of a suicide bomber group which killed 40 Indian troops. Indian foreign secretary Vijay Gokhale appear on national TV hours later, defending that the intended targets were not against… Read more »
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/kashmir-latest-india-pakistan-air-strike-planes-attack-a8800131.html There is a certain symmetry to the way things stand in the highly strung conflict between India and Pakistan – as of Wednesday night, we should add, given just how fast the situation is developing. On Tuesday morning, India took the unprecedented step of launching airstrikes at what it said were militant targets in Pakistani territory across the Kashmir line of control. Hours later, the Indian… Read more »
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/india-pakistan-crisis-kashmir-border-shelling-a8804351.html Six civilians have been killed after violence continued to escalate between Indiaand Pakistan in Kashmir. Indian police said two siblings and their mother were killed in Indian-controlled Kashmir after a shell fired by Pakistani soldiers hit their home. In Pakistan-controlled Kashmir, government official Umar Azam said Indian troops with heavy weapons “indiscriminately targeted border villagers”, killing a boy and wounding three other people. He added… Read more »
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/mbs-saudi-prince-mohammad-bin-salman-taliban-militants-meeting-afghan-war-pakistan-a8782276.html Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman is likely to meet Afghan Taliban representatives during his visit to Pakistan on Sunday, in an effort to broker an end to Afghanistan’s 17-year-old civil war, Pakistani government sources have said. Pakistan has been playing an increasingly vital role in the Afghanistan peace talks, which have been gathering momentum in recent months amid a growing US desire to pull out its… Read more »
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/afghanistan-laila-haidari-taliban-drug-addict-rehabilitation-middle-east-a8784836.html he driver of a car that was stopped in the middle of the road, blocking traffic, was shocked when a passing motorist rolled down the window and shouted at him, “Dirty donkey”. He was even more surprised when he looked up to see that the insult came from a woman. A woman driving a car. A woman driving a… Read more »
This week an article about India and the new Chinese app called Tik Tok, caught my attention and intrigued me. The article portrayed a young Indian man swaying while lip-syncing a song praising Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Prime Minister of India. Tik Tok is the latest digital platform made by China which grabbed the attention of many Indian villages… Read more »