NEW DELHI: Is the number of random samples being tested by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) adequate to rule out community transmission of the Chinese virus? No, say many community health specialists, prescribing a drastic increase in the numbers for a clearer assessment of whether community transmission has begun. So far, the government has […]Read More
NEW DELHI: India has taken the lead in announcing a $10 million Covid-19 Emergency Fund for use by its South Asian neighbours at an unprecedented video conference with South Asian heads of state on Sunday evening. Pakistan as expected played the spoiler, sending a low-ranking minister of state for health who compounded it by linking Kashmir […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Pakistan has indicated it will participate in a SAARC video conference proposed by India, to fight the Coronavirus. The Pakistani assent came through the official twitter handle of the foreign ministry late Friday said, “We have communicated that the SAPM on Health will be available to participate in the video conference of SAARC […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Within hours of the World Health Organisation (WHO) declaring Covid-19 a global pandemic on Wednesday, the Indian government in a bid to contain the rapidly spreading coronavirus took the unprecedented step of announcing that all visas for travel to India stand suspended until April 15. The announcement was made both through the Twitter […]Read More
NEW DELHI: “The Nepalese often say, “Drop by drop is the water pot filled.” There is also a Chinese saying: “The flame runs high when everyone adds wood to the fire.” I am convinced that as long as our two countries carry forward our tradition of friendship and keep increasing our exchanges and cooperation, we […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Returning to a country he described as his “second home”, India’s foreign secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla on Monday sought to assuage concerns in Bangladesh on India’s National Register of Citizens (NRC) and the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) on Monday. The NRC would have no implications for Bangladesh, he insisted, with the local Daily […]Read More
NEW DELHI: In the political pecking order, Myanmar’s President is at roughly the same level as India’s President: Their posts are largely ceremonial and they play second fiddle, to Aung San Suu Kyi in Myanmar and Narendra Modi in India. It partly explains the limited media coverage accorded to Myanmar’s President U Win Myint who […]Read More
NEW DELHI: There were Trumpisms, sugar and spice, and a tiny spat as the U.S. President fielded questions from the Indian and American media here on Tuesday evening. There was even a question on the coronavirus, probably because Trump is under attack back home for ostensibly not doing enough to check its outbreak in the […]Read More
NEW DELHI: ‘Namastey Trump’ played to a sellout crowd at Ahmedabad’s Motera Stadium on Monday, the first day of the Trump visit. As an estimated one lakh plus watched and cheered, Narendra Modi and his guest the President of the United States hugged, held hands and lavished praise on each other. And although it wasn’t […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Two countries with similar records when it comes to terror financing but on Friday the FATF (Financial Action Task Force) rendered two different rulings. Pakistan on the FATF grey list has been warned to fulfil its commitments by June on the FATF-mandated Action Plan or face the music in terms of financial sanctions. […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Pakistan will remain on the Grey List of global terror watchdog FATF (Financial Action Task Force). Giving StratNews Global a sneak preview of the FATF verdict on Friday, Western diplomatic sources said that since the ruling is purely on the technical parameters laid down for Pakistan to clean up its act, no political […]Read More
NEW DELHI: She came and was deported! Debbie Abrahams, a Labour MP of British Parliament and a vocal critic of the Indian government’s Kashmir policies including the abrogation of Article 370, was booted out of the country shortly after her arrival at Delhi Airport. Immigration authorities put her on an Emirates flight to Dubai (from […]Read More
NEW DELHI: There’s a sense of the farcical in Hafiz Saeed’s conviction by a Pakistani court. He was found guilty of arranging funds for terrorist organisations, not for actually running terrorist strikes against India including the Mumbai attacks in November 2008. The five and a half year sentence (two convictions to run concurrently) comes loaded […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Veterans of the Indian Foreign Service will recall the evacuation of over 100,000 Indians from Jordan in 1990 in the wake of Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait. Compared to that, the evacuation of 647 Indian students (and seven Maldivians) from China was a smaller operation but those involved risked infection, possibly even death. […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Dominic Asquith, outgoing British high commissioner to India, hopes the Indian government will address concerns being expressed about the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). “I trust that it (the Indian government) will continue to address the concerns that have been expressed. But that is for the Indian government and Indian people,” he said. Asquith, who […]Read More
NEW DELHI: As Australia’s envoy to India Harinder Sidhu prepares to leave New Delhi for Canberra on completion of her four-year tenure, she feels satisfied with the trajectory of bilateral ties. It isn’t only the professional aspects of her India stint that would give the Arabic-speaking Sidhu reason to be pleased. She also had the opportunity […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Trump’s Israel-Palestine ‘peace’ plan has not found favour with many countries. India on Wednesday kept a fine line, urging direct negotiations between the Palestinians and Israel. External Affairs Ministry Spokesman Raveesh Kumar pointed out that “India has called for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian issue”. The Palestinians who were not involved in […]Read More
“Anyone attempting to split China in any part of the country will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones… And any external forces backing such attempts dividing China will be deemed by the Chinese people as pipe-dreaming!” Who were those remarks of China’s President Xi Jinping during a conversation with Nepal’s Prime Minister K.P. Sharma […]Read More
NEW DELHI: India and Nepal may share strong historical, cultural and religious links but India needs to look beyond these if it wants to be in sync with a new Nepal. This advice comes from Nepal’s Sujeev Shakya who describes himself as a thought leader and speaker. Shakya is also an author, having written two books—‘Unleashing […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Far fetched it may appear but given the frosty state of bilateral relations will Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Pakistani counterpart Imran Khan meet three months from now? Or will they choose to ignore each other even if they share the stage at the inaugural ‘Sagarmatha Sambaad’ (Mt Everest Dialogue) to be […]Read More
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