Indrani Bagchi| NEW DELHI: After the first round of talks between India and China on the NSG+ , both countries may hold a second set of discussions in October in Beijing. The talks, between Wang Qun and Amandeep Gill, which for the first time saw India and China+ engaging each other on such an important issue, ended with China agreeing… Read more »
Written by Yubaraj Ghimire “Will the Nepal government start recruiting Madhesis into the army?” An Indian journalist had asked the visiting Nepali Prime Minister, Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, in June 1990. “Why don’t you ask your Prime Minister if he would start recruiting Madhesis from Nepal into the Indian Gorkha regiment,” he replied, pointing towards his Indian counterpart, V P Singh,… Read more »
By: Express News Service INDIA is yet to receive a response from Pakistan to a letter from Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar to his Pakistani counterpart, which was handed over last week, suggesting ways to expedite the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks case trial, according to the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA). Noting that the trial was “happening at a snail’s pace”,… Read more »
In the article, “Big Success Story” it states that Sri Lanka is officially free of malaria. This sparked my attention because when I visited the country in 2011, I was told to “drench myself in bug spray”. Even when I went to bed, I had to put mosquito nets up and use citronella candles so I wouldn’t be bitten by… Read more »
After a long struggle, Sri Lanka, the large island nation southeast of India, was declared free of malaria last week by the World Health Organization. It has been more than three years since the last case. “This is a big success story,” said Dr. Pedro L. Alonso, the director of the W.H.O.’s global malaria program. “And it’s an example for… Read more »