Pakistan has approved a rise of up to 20% in retail prices of general medicines and 14% for essential ones, prompting immediate criticism from drug manufacturers who said the hikes were too small.The government decision followed a months-long standoff with importers and manufacturers who have been demanding an across-the-board 39% rise, warning that the industry […]Read More
With the Pakistani government and opposition PTI claiming progress in talks to break deadlock over the timing of elections, both sides have decided to hold what one minister called the “almost final round” of parleys on Tuesday. Sources told Dawn that PTI has insisted on a date for dissolution of the National Assembly prior to […]Read More
Over 100 Chinese militia vessels were seen swarming around the Philippines’ Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) last week, refusing to leave despite being ordered to do so, the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) has said. During a week-long maritime patrol in the South China Sea, the PCG also detected a PLA Navy corvette class and two Chinese […]Read More
Russia has shipped three million barrels of crude oil, over 100,000 barrels per day, to China via a Myanmar pipeline since February, according to Energy Intelligence, a UK-based monitoring group and leading provider of global energy information and data. Based on independent port data of shipments, it reported that Russia unloads its crude oil at […]Read More
Former Sri Lankan Navy Commander Wasantha Karannagoda has expressed surprise at the decision of the United States to blacklist his family and him from entering the country. “I have some doubts about the move and believe that there is something else behind this. It is a surprise to me that 14 years after the war, […]Read More
NEW DELHI: On ‘Talking Point’, Lt Gen (Dr) Rakesh Sharma(Retd), the Gen Bipin Rawat Chair of Excellence at the United Services Institution of India(USI), Distinguished Fellow at Vivekananda International Foundation(VIF) & the Centre for Land Warfare Studies(CLAWS), Former Adjutant General and Ex-Commander, Ladakh Corps, Indian Army in conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. […]Read More
NEW DELHI: China’s media is almost entirely state-owned and controlled. Even private media, few in number, need to follow government mandates rendering freedom of speech non-existent. Social media is a little different with government laws, regulations and troll armies ensuring the state sanctioned and controlled narrative is always dominant. And if the country happens to be […]Read More
NEW DELHI: In January transactions using the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) nearly touched a record 9 billion. Of this nearly two out of three were for sums less than Rs500. And now UPI is going global. Recently, the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), which drives UPI, inked a deal with the Monetary Authority of […]Read More
NEW DELHI: India holds the world record for evacuating civilians from war torn Iraq in 1990, over 1,70,000 of them. Comparatively, the Sudan evacuation is very modest, so far a little over 500 have been moved out and more are expected to follow but nowhere near the 1990 figure. But Sudan is important to understand […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Rescue and evacuation missions are rarely easy and when they are from a war zone, things get even more complicated. Rewind to July 2006, when India launched ‘Operation Sukoon’ to bring back its citizens stranded in war-torn Lebanon. It came to be known as the largest evacuation operation of civilians undertaken by the […]Read More
NEW DELHI: In the decade since 2013, as India ramped up border infrastructure development, incursions by the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) have seen a steady rise. But these incursions can also be linked to other events, domestic and external. It has also led some analysts to suspect that Beijing is using the nationalism card to […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Chinese billionaire Jack Ma returned to China after a year abroad. Ma disappeared from the public eye post his criticism of the state-owned banks three years ago.Read More
Former diplomat Anil Trigunayat has extensive experience of Africa, having served in Nigeria, C’ote D’Ivoire and Libya. Currently Distinguished Fellow at the VIF, he spoke extensively to StratNews Global’s Ashwin Ahmad, on the situation in Sudan, how the evacuation is being carried out and the role of the Indian embassy in Khartoum, the External Affairs […]Read More
NEW DELHI:For a country with a fairly mature space programme, it took a long time for India to come out with a space policy. This vision document released a few days ago, sets out what India intends to achieve in space and identifies the instruments to that end, says Chaitanya Giri, Editor of Interstellarnews in […]Read More
NEW DELHI: There’s a discernible shift in the approach of Germany, the dominant economy in Europe, to China from what it was 7-8 years ago, says former foreign secretary Vijay Gokhale, who has also served as envoy to both China and Germany. There was a relatively sanguine view of China in Germany during 2015-2016; now […]Read More
With over Rs 500 billion in annual financial bleeding, the Pakistani government has decided not to set up any new state-owned entity (SOE) unless required for strategic reasons or under an agreement with any country and gradually offload the majority of an existing lot of 200 entities mostly operating in losses. A draft policy released […]Read More
A bill seeking to reduce the powers of the Chief Justice of Pakistan to take suo motu action and constitute benches has finally become law, despite the top court’s order to stop its enforcement. The Supreme Court (Practice and Procedure) Act 2023 is deemed to have been assented by the President w.e.f. April 21, 2023, the […]Read More
Wishing her countrymen on the occasion of Eid, Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has made a strong poll pitch, asking people to vote for her party Awami League in the next general election scheduled early next year. “I am grateful to the people as they voted us to power time and again and gave us […]Read More
The Sri Lankan government is aware of the concerns raised over certain provisions of the Anti-terrorism Bill and is ready to alleviate them, says Justice Minister Dr Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe. The bill, which has generated a lot of controversy, will replace the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) passed in 1979 under President J.R. Jayewardene’s rule as […]Read More
More than 210 people were killed and 60 wounded in junta air strikes targeting civilians in six Myanmar regions and states that have become resistance strongholds from March 20 to April 18. The Irrawaddy recorded at least 28 junta air strikes in Sagaing and Bago regions and Chin, Kayah, Kachin and Karen states, mostly in civilian areas. […]Read More
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