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Illegal immigration issue will remain a political football in India till 20190
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- August 20, 2018
It was in 1997 that the then Assam Governor, Lt. Gen. (retd) S.K. Sinha, wrote to the President of India that there were over 4 million Bangladeshis living in Assam illegally and action should be taken to send them back, writes Rashmi Saksena for South Asia Monitor By Rashmi Saksena Aug 17, 2018 Assam, in
Will the Maldivian democratic institutions remain independent in the forthcoming presidential elections?0
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- August 20, 2018
Malé, capital of Maldives (Photo: Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons) August 15, 2018 By Srimal Fernando and Megha Gupta In September, the small island nation, Maldives will be facing a presidential election. This will be a crucial time not only for this South Asian island state but also for the other nations in this region especially
China, India break Asian toilet taboo with national sanitation campaigns0
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- August 20, 2018
By Zhang Hongpei Source:Global Times Published: 2018/8/12 China drives sanitation campaign to boost tourism while India eyes open defecation-free villages A view of a Wi-Fi-enabled smart toilet facility on the streets of Changsha, capital of Central China’s Hunan Province Photo: IC China and India have both achieved progress in their campaigns to build more hygienic
Bangladesh: ELECTION 2018 & POST-EID SPECTACLES0
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- August 20, 2018
Haggling beneath the surface yields nothing fruitful Shahid Islam 20 August 2018 Beyond the pale of the ordinary folks, haggling of an inordinate vintage has been on to bring the country’s ‘extra-parliament’ main opposition party, the BNP, into an accommodative electoral fold, according to reliable sources. This months-long beneath the surface haggling yielded no substantive
The Sangh Sees the NRC as a Device to Target Muslims All Over India0
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- August 20, 2018
For Hindutva ideologues, it is just a short step to go from declaring Muslims suspected of being Bangladeshi as ‘foreigners’ to looking at all Muslims as foreigners. Credit: PTI Ajay Gudavarthy 18/Aug/2018 The National Register of Citizens (NRC) is worrying not just because of what lies in store for the 40 lakh, people in Assam
The Iranian paradox made more complex by erratic US behavior0
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- August 20, 2018
By Abbas Milani, opinion contributor — 08/18/18 The views expressed by contributors are their own and not the view of The Hill © Getty Images The Iranian regime is in turmoil and its sole salvation might well be a controlled confrontation with the United States. Giddy minds, Shakespeare tells us, are best kept busy
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Blood and Soil in Narendra Modi’s India
By Dexter Filkins A Reporter at Large December 9, 2019 Issue The New Yorker The Prime Minister’s Hindu-nationalist government has cast two hundred million Muslims as internal enemies. Prime Minister Narendra Modi presents himself as an ascetic economic visionary. He is also a hero of anti-Muslim bigots. On August 11th, two weeks after Prime
Arundhati Roy: It’s Hard to Communicate the Scale and the Shape of This Shadow Taking India Over
November 28, 2019 www.democracynow.org Guests Arundhati Royaward-winning writer. She won the Booker Prize in 1997 for her first novel, The God of Small Things. Her second novel, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2017. Human rights groups are condemning the Indian government for carrying out widespread torture, extrajudicial