Even as Nepal was reeling under a COVID-19 pandemic with more than 8,000 new cases coming up every day, President Bidya Devi Bhandari dissolved parliament at the stroke of midnight on May 21, and fixed fresh elections for November...
An independent international panel has urged members of the United Nations to sink their differences and rivalries to put together a system which will prevent the recurrence of pandemics like COVID-19.
The “Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response”...
Nepalese President Bidhya Devi Bhandari has reappointed K.P Sharma Oli as Prime Minister three days after he lost the post following his failure to win a vote of confidence in parliament, known as the House of Representatives. The general...
China’s outspoken diplomacy, initiated by President Xi Jinping to counter the West’s aggressive diplomatic posturing against it, received a setback in Bangladesh this week.
The Sino-Bangla spat over the US-led “Quad” indicates Bangladesh’s determination to conduct its foreign policy independently....
The alliance led by DMK along with 12 other parties including Congress, CPI, CPIM, Vaiko’s MDMK, two major Muslim parties AlUML and MMK, and 6 other minor parties won the recent Assembly election in Tamil Nadu.
Despite the presence of...
Colombo, May 10: The three arrests made thus far in the case relating to the bid on the life of the Maldivian Parliament Speaker and former President Mohamed Nasheed in Male on May 6, show that Islamic radicalism is...
As on May 6, the internationally accepted pandemic figures were as follows: the US, 32.6million infections and 579,000 deaths; India, 20.7 million infections and 226,000 deaths; and China, 90,721 cases and 4636 deaths. The contrast is clear. The main...
“India and Asian geopolitics: The past, present” by Shivshankar Menon (Brookings Institution Press, Washington DC, 2021) may, at first glance, appear to be primarily on India. But it is about Asia as a whole, its past, present and future...
Although the elections just held in four States and one Union Territory in India were provincial, they had immense national importance because national issues and national conditions impinged on them in addition to local issues.
Firstly, the elections forcefully brought...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, April 24: In the recent past, a number of media reports have shone a light on the plight of Sri Lankan rural folk, mostly women, who are caught in a debt trap, having taken loans from...
The opposition Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) has said that the Gotabaya Rajapaksa government’s bid to nullify court rulings and to impose civil disabilities on key opposition leaders on the recommendationsof a Special Presidential Commission on Political Victimization, is tantamount...
Clad in mourning black, the Queen struck a solitary and sombre figure as she sat in St George’s Chapel to pay a final farewell to her husband of 73 years.
The seat next to her, normally filled by Prince Philip...
