September 27th, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad spoke at the UN General Assembly. In his speech, he said that Jammu and Kashmir was “invaded and occupied”, and there may be reasons but it is “still wrong”. He stated that he’s been trying to get India and Pakistan to cooperate and talk out the issue through negotiations, but India Prime Minister… Read more »
Raising the Kashmir issue at the UN, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has alleged that India has “invaded and occupied” Jammu and Kashmir and asked New Delhi to work with Pakistan to resolve the issue. The Malaysian prime minister in his address to the UN General Assembly on Friday said that there may be reasons for India’s action in Jammu… Read more »
The government of Bangladesh has recently put severe restrictions on Rohingya refugees from Myanmar. Many have had their mobile phones taken away. And some Rohingya children have been forced to drop out of Bangladeshi schools. Al Jazeera’s Tanvir Chowdhury reports from Cox’s Bazar. Video can be found here: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/10/bangladesh-imposes-restrictions-rohingya-refugees-191015133210712.html
NEW DELHI: India, the world’s top palm oil buyer, is shunning purchases from Malaysia after the Southeast Asian nation’s Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad criticised its policy in Kashmir, sparking the latest trade spat in the region. Since then, many Indian buyers of palm oil have started shifting to Indonesian supplies amid concern that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will curb purchases… Read more »
Pakistan said on Thursday that it has “exclusive rights” over three Western rivers and any attempt by India to divert the flow of these rivers would be considered an “act of aggression”. Foreign Office spokesperson Mohammad Faisal made the remarks during his weekly media briefing here in response to a question regarding Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent remarks to stop… Read more »
The facts of the case seem to be all over the place. A lot of the articles are short, and since the investigation hasn’t been conducted yet, nobody has any straight facts. Here is what has been established: Nepal’s Speaker of the House, Krishna Bahadur Mahara, initially denied that anything happened. However, due to increasing pressure by the Communist Party,… Read more »
Kathmandu, September 30 A Parliament Secretariat staffer told lawmaker Uma Regmi early morning today that she was raped by Speaker Krishna Bahadur Mahara last evening at her rented flat in Tinkune. Mahara, however, refuted the allegation. Nepali Congress lawmaker Regmi told THT over phone from Chitwan that the staffer told her about the incident at around 12:30am today. Regmi said… Read more »
The speaker of Nepal’s parliament has stepped down after a female employee of the parliament secretariat accused him of rape. Krishna Bahadur Mahara, a senior member of the ruling Nepal Communist Party, said on Tuesday he was stepping down to allow an “impartial and independent investigation into the allegations that have come forward in media reports … until the probe… Read more »
Kathmandu: Following a charge of sexual assault, Krishna Bahadur Mahara has resigned on Tuesday as speaker of Nepal’s House of Representatives (HoR). Issuing a press statement, Mahara said that he had resigned to facilitate an investigation into the charges against him. A woman, who works in the Parliament Secretariat, told the media that Mahara tried to assault her on Sunday… Read more »
GAUR, Nepal — The monsoon rains would not stop. They lashed Nepal’s border with India, pooling into a swift current that crumbled homes, cut electricity and swept away people and animals. But this summer’s flash floods played out differently on the Indian side. Embankments blocked swollen upstream rivers from emptying south, leaving Nepal to deal with two or three times… Read more »