Srinagar, Indian-administered Kashmir – India’s 69th Republic Day celebrations have been marked by a security clampdown in Indian-administered Kashmir, as authorities suspended internet services and thousands of soldiers patrolled the streets. The main celebratory event was held amid tight security at a sports stadium in the region’s main city, Srinagar, and was attended by politicians and top officers of the security apparatus. Residents,… Read more »
An Oxfam report released on the eve of the World Economic Forum at Davos underscores the dramatic increase in wealth inequality in India in recent years. In 2017 alone, the top 1 percent of the population owned 73 percent of the addition to wealth that occurred. A year ago, the top 1 percent owned 58 percent of the stock of wealth. Thus its share,… Read more »
For four weeks, India and China have been involved in a stand-off along part of their 3,500km (2,174-mile) shared border. The two nations fought a war over the border in 1962 and disputes remain unresolved in several areas, causing tensions to rise from time to time. Since this confrontation began last month, each side has reinforced its troops and called… Read more »
By Jonathan MarcusDefence and diplomatic correspondent, Tel Aviv 26 January 2018 This is an area of interim borders and unsettled claims. While tensions have calmed since the last stand-off on the Doklam plateau, along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) which ended in August of last year, both sides are continuing to build up their ground forces in this inhospitable… Read more »
Even though Nepal’s leftist alliance group won the elections last month with a sweeping victory, the government has yet to transition powers. This is creating much upset in the nation and is posing a serious threat to the democracy in Nepal. Many voters were hoping that the leftist alliance group could bring stability to the political gridlock and long impoverished nation. Critics… Read more »
It has been a year of elections in Nepal. On January 31, then Foreign Minister Prakash Sharan Mahat promised to a clutch of Kathmandu-based envoys that the country would hold all three levels of elections – local, provincial and parliamentary – within the year. In just concluded polls, Mahat himself lost and his Nepali Congress party performed miserably, but the… Read more »
Students in Nepal have been taking to the streets to demand the outgoing government swiftly hand over power to a leftist alliance that swept to victory in national elections last month. The landmark post-war poll had raised hopes that it would bring much-needed stability to the impoverished country. Yet, several weeks after the defeat of Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba’s Nepali Congress, elation has given way to frustration… Read more »
Results for Nepal’s upcoming election are expected in a few days. The vote will decide whether or not Nepal will stay a monarchy or become a federal democracy. This vote comes after a long period of turmoil in the nation among ethnic groups and recovery from an earthquake that struck 2 years ago. If Nepal becomes a federal democracy, it… Read more »
I played the role of a UNHCR representative. Prior to the simulation, I felt very prepared because my group and I reviewed the material and possible actions we would like to take. Our short term goal was to gain funding to first help improve the refugees living conditions. Our long term goal was to try and find a permanent settlement… Read more »
The exodus of Rohingyas from Myanmar affected Bangladesh and India the most. But, there is little information that they made their inroads into Nepal. During last few years, if any minority community in the world that has caught maximum international attention, it is the Rohingyas of Myanmar. With a population of nearly 1.1 million, the Rohingyas are predominantly Muslim ethnic… Read more »
