Con man or royal? The incredible story of a reclusive Indian ‘prince’ The royal family of Oudh has been one of India’s great mysteries. Some say they’ve been there since 1856. New York Times| Nov 23, 2019 New York Times By Ellen Barry NEW DELHI: On a spring afternoon in 2016, when I was working
READ MOREDecember 5, 2019 amti.csis.org India has begun to invest heavily, albeit quietly, in expanding its naval and air power across the Indian Ocean. The effort is driven by two factors: a desire to improve maritime domain awareness and maritime security throughout the vast region, and New Delhi’s growing anxieties about Chinese inroads in its strategic
READ MOREBibhudatta Pradhan, Bloomberg• November 29, 2019 (Bloomberg) — Fresh off a resounding re-election victory, Prime Minister Narendra Modi joined other lawmakers in India’s colonial-era parliament to applaud the man to his right. There stood Amit Shah, Modi’s point man for more than three decades, who then proceeded to make one of the most significant announcements in contemporary Indian history: The
READ MOREBangkok Post December 2nd, 2019 Photo: AFP International pressure to rehabilitate the Rohingya and reform Rakhine is unlikely to dissipate Myanmar’s top leaders — both military and civilian — have been shell-shocked by the avalanche of international legal cases they are now facing. In the space of days, three cases have been lodged in separate
READ MOREIndia-US ties have always been under the realm of uncertainty, post-cold war. Despite that, India chose to remain agnostic towards both the superpower. U.S.A largely perceived India closer to USSR because Russian history and literature were continuously part of Indian universities and elite culture. Nuclear test added fuel to the fire. It is only after
READ MOREWebcast available How does China’s Belt and Road Initiative compare with U.S. models for sustainable economic growth in Pakistan? Ambassador Alice Wells, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia, examined the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor and its implications for Pakistan’s development. Selected Quotes Ambassador Alice Wells: “I think that today there is
READ MOREPress Release 19th November 2019 The NGO Shipbreaking Platform, a NGO partner of Human Rights at Sea, themselves in collaboration with the Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association, has achieved a successful legal judgement in relation to vessel end-of-life shipbreaking by former ship owners which resulted in environmental and labour rights abuses. NGO Shipbreaking, Belgium. [Reproduced with
READ MORE18 November 2019 diplomatist.com Introduction : The 2800 km Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar Economic Corridor (BCIM-EC), previously known as the Kunming Initiative, is seen as an important project connecting Kunming in China’s Yunnan Province to the Indian city of Kolkata, passing through Mandalay in Myanmar and Dhaka in Bangladesh. However, the slow progress of the project and its
READ MOREHilary Brueck Sep. 24, 2019 Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was honored with a 2019 Goalkeepers award from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Tuesday evening for his bullish program to end open defecation across India. The “Swachh Bharat” (Clean India) toilet-building program has built over 100 million toilets across the country since 2014, according to government estimates. Human rights experts say
READ MOREPress Trust of India | 18 November 2019 The official advisory organisation on natural World Heritage has recommended putting the Sundarbans on a list of natural sites in danger as Bangladesh has continued implementing a coal-fired power plant project near the forest, a media report said on Saturday. The World Heritage Committee of 21 governments
READ MOREby RAVIE LAKSHMANAN — 16 November 2019 Researchers have discovered a network of 265 fake local news sites — named after defunct newspapers and media outlets — across 65 countries that are being used to disseminate anti-Pakistan coverage and serve Indian governmental interests. Uncovered by the EU DisinfoLab, an EU-based NGO focused on researching sophisticated disinformation campaigns, the operations were traced back to a
READ MOREFrancis Wade interviews Pankaj Mishra 16 November 2019 PANKAJ MISHRA BEGAN as an essayist in the early 1990s after moving to a Himalayan village in northern India, where he read prolifically and contributed essays to a number of Indian magazines. By the end of the decade, he was writing regularly for The New York Review
READ MOREAhmad Abubakr 11 November 2019 The simple answer is that they did not want to. Nor were they given such options. Sindh Sindh’s accession to Pakistan is simpler. At the time of partition, Sindh was a Muslim majority region by 75%. Sindh was also the province that was most loyal to Jinnah and the idea
READ MORESouth Asia Journal 31 October 2019 When Mr. Narendra Modi first stepped into office as Prime Minister of India, Nilofar Suhrawardy came out with a book on him. The book, Image and Substance, Modi’s First Year in Office (2015), was first one on the subject. Her latest book on Modi’s return to power following a
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