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Bangladeshi Diplomat Missing for 15 Months Now Home, Relatives Say0
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- March 18, 2019
Prapti Rahman, Dhaka, 2019-03-18 Bangladeshi Diplomat Missing for 15 Months Now Home, Relatives Say A retired diplomat who went missing in Bangladesh in December 2017 has returned home, his daughters said Monday, but they declined to give further information. The case looked set to become the latest in a series of unsolved disappearances in the
Railing Against India’s Right-Wing Nationalism Was a Calling. It Was Also a Death Sentence.Railing Against India’s Right-Wing Nationalism Was a Calling. It Was Also a Death Sentence.0
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- March 18, 2019
How the journalist Gauri Lankesh became a casualty of India’s increasingly intolerant politics. March 14, 2019 New York Times Gauri Lankesh usually worked late on Tuesday nights. The exuberantly leftist weekly newspaper she edited, Gauri Lankesh Patrike, went to press on Wednesdays, and she had to finalize the articles. But on Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2017,
Beyond Balakot: Why the sudden deployment of INS Vikramaditya off the Pakistan coast is significant0
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- March 18, 2019
As Pakistan Day approaches, this could be a general security arrangement in our part of the seas. Or, it could be a deployment based on specific intel inputs, including possibly of ‘samundari jihad’. 18-03-2019 In the backdrop of India and Pakistan’s simmering tension, India’s decision to deploy a buildup comprising aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya and nuclear submarine INS
The ‘Berlin Wall Collapse’ That Modi Is Counting on to Win 20 Million Votes0
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- March 18, 2019
| Fast Forward | OZY By Maroosha Muzaffar • MAR 18 2019 Why you should care For the country’s 20 million Sikhs, the struggle to visit the religion’s holiest shrine has been a pain point for generations.Punjab view mapCreated with Raphaël 2.1.0Created with Raphaël 2.1.0 27,743,338Population PunjabiSpoken Languages $7845GDP Per Capita ChandigarhCapital City In the
Farmers on India-Pakistan border fear for lives, crops0
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- March 18, 2019
Farmers on India-Pakistan border fear for lives, crops- ucanews.com Umar Manzoor Shah, Srinagar , India 18 March 2019 Vijay Kumar gives a tour of his farm to show how close it is to the India-Pakistan border. He fears his crops may be destroyed and the lives of his family imperiled if the conflict between the nuclear-armed archrivals over the
Is This the Last Dalai Lama?0
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- March 18, 2019
Charles McQuillan—Getty Images The Dalai Lama gives a public talk during a Children in Crossfire conference in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, September 10, 2017. Jessica Batke 15 March 2019 Jessica Batke is a ChinaFile Senior Editor. She is an expert on China’s domestic political and social affairs, and served as the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence
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Sri Lanka; To be or not to be, the Gota question0
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- March 18, 2019
N Sathiya Moorthy 18 March 2019 By declaring that he was confident of winning the presidential elections later this year, Gota Rajapaksa has said that he wants to become what he claims the people are tired of – namely, ‘mainstream politicians’. Better or worse still, Gota’s brother Basil R has welcomed the other’s decision to
The emerging new world order’s alarm bells: Men like Brandon Tarrant and Andreas Breivik1
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- March 16, 2019
By James M. Dorsey 16 March 2019 A podcast version of this story is available on Soundcloud, Itunes, Spotify, Stitcher, TuneIn and Tumblr This week’s attack on two mosques in New Zealand reflects a paradigm shift: the erosion of liberal values and the rise of civilisationalism at the expense of the nation state. So do
How India’s Regional Policy Could Impact Next General Elections0
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- March 13, 2019
March 13, 2019 By Luciane Noronha M. de Oliveira During the 2013 pre-general elections rallies, foreign policy was not one of the main topics for Narendra Modi. However, after nearly 5 years of tenure, it is safe to say that he was one of the most important prime ministers of India’s post-independente period when it
Learning to live with Pakistan – terrorism and worse?0
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- March 12, 2019
The broad arguments for the war-psyche in India just now are based on the incontrovertible belief that Pakistan, whether Deep State or not, is incorrigible. N Sathiya Moorthy 11 March 2018 Post-Pulwama terror attack and subsequent air-strikes, an air of hyper-nationalism is getting increasingly ventilated, by a section of the political class and also the
Sri Lanka: To Geneva, thru Mannar and Jaffna?0
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- March 11, 2019
N Sathiya Moorthy 11 March 2019 Reports that TNA’s Mullaitivu District MP, Nirmalanathan Sivamohan, wants the ‘Mannar mass-grave samples’ sent to a second lab for testing after one in Florida, US, has certified their age between mid-fifteenth to mid-eighteenth century, may require the party to clarify its position in the matter. Maybe, there is also
Kazakh police raid raises spectre of China’s long arm0
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- March 11, 2019
By James M. Dorsey 11 March 2019 A podcast version of this story is available on Soundcloud, Itunes, Spotify, Stitcher, TuneIn and Tumblr A police raid on a Kazakh group documenting the plight of Kazakhs and Uyghurs caught in a brutal crackdown in China’s north-western province of Xinjiang is about more than a government seeking
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‘Pulwama’, ‘Balakot’, Modi, Imran Khan, Wing Commander Avinandan, War Cry, Peace Appeal etc. etc: What do we make of all these?
2 March 2019 M. Adil Khan[1] Whole thing started with Pulwama in Kashmir in Indian Kashmir where a suicide bomber attacked an Indian army convoy and killed 40 soldiers. The incident has happened in the wake of upcoming general election in India which also coincides with Modi’s plummeting popularity that have made some people looking
Bangladesh: An Open Letter to Dr. Gowher Rizvi. Oxford Union debate telecast on Aljazeera
Taj Hashmi 1 March 2019 Dear Gowher: In hindsight, I think I should have written this letter ten years back, days after you became the International Affairs Adviser to the Prime Minister of Bangladesh. I am sorry, I failed miserably to perform my duty as a friend towards a very good old friend on time.