President’s Media Division President Maithripala Sirisena reiterated the commitment of the government to establish a BIMSTEC Center for Technology Transfer Facility to contribute to the collective drive for economic advancement.
India wants to limit tensions with Pakistan after what it said was a successful cross-border strike on militants sheltered there, according to two top officials, who sought to allay fears of a broader conflict between the nuclear-armed nations. One of the officials, who are both part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government shaping a new, more robust strategy toward Pakistan,… Read more »
The man poised to become Uzbekistan’s next president will have to share power with two other senior officials because rival clans have been unable to agree on an outright leader, sources familiar with the behind-the-scenes maneuvering told Reuters. Shavkat Mirziyoyev, 59, became interim president last month after the death of Islam Karimov, who had ruled the Central Asian state with… Read more »
IWPR and the OSCE partnered last month to host a conference exploring the media’s role in countering extremism in Kyrgyzstan. Some 100 officials, media professionals, university lecturers and students from across the country took part in the September 28 event. Kyrgyzstan’s state policy on religious affairs for 2014 to 2020 calls for broader cooperation between the media, civil society and… Read more »
OPEC has decrease their oil output dramatically. By doing so they have recover some loses from the crisis of the mid-2014. Saudi Arabia has refused to restrain its output when Iran is growing in nuclear-related sanctions. Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh said that Iran wanted to increase its daily output to levels of 4 million barrels from the 3.8 millions…. Read more »
Out of the four articles I chose, the most interesting one was the article on the Taleban possibly threatening Turkmenistan to join in on combating terrorism. Due to the fact that Turkmenistan borders Afghanistan it is understandable that Turkmen could possibly be overcome by the terrorist group. So far it has done a great job at staying neutral in the… Read more »
Taliban fighters mounted a coordinated assault on the northern city of Kunduz overnight, attacking from four directions and entering the city itself, a senior city police official said. Sheer Ali Kamal, commander of the 808 Tandar police zone in Kunduz said the attack began at around midnight (1930 GMT Sunday) and fighting was still going on in and around the… Read more »
India will ratify the Paris climate change agreement at the United Nations, an environment ministry official said. Narendra Modi’s cabinet had given its approval on Wednesday to ratify the Paris agreement on Sunday. The date is the birth anniversary of India’s independence leader Mahatma Gandhi, who led a life of minimum carbon footprint, said Modi. Environment ministry spokesman Himank Kothiyal… Read more »
Indian police have taken a pigeon into custody after it was found carrying a warning note to Prime Minister Narendra Modi near the nation’s heavily militarised border with Pakistan. Border Security Force (BSF) officers found the bird at Pathankot in the northern state of Punjab, where Pakistan-based militants launched a deadly attack on an airforce base in January. Border guard… Read more »
Elite troops have launched “surgical strikes” on Pakistan-based terrorists in the contested territory of Kashmir, India said on Thursday, in a major escalation of a deepening crisis between the nuclear-armed rivals. The Indian army said troops conducted multiple nighttime raids across the line of control (LOC), the ceasefire line agreed in 1972 that divides the Himalayan region, to attack militants… Read more »