NEW DELHI: “For how long will India be kept out of the decision making structures of the United Nations?” With that Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched into a severe critique of the United Nations during a virtual address of the annual session of the UN General Assembly. Speaking in Hindi, he demanded to know how […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Japan is a very “under-rated low-key player” but it’s the world’s third biggest economy and its self-defence forces are very “sophisticated”, Dr Rupakjyoti Borah, Associate Professor, Sharda University tells StratNews Global Associate Editor, Amitabh P. Revi, Japan is “too important to be missed” and “it’s high time”, America, Japan and India along with […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The World Health Organisation, accused of playing partisan politics with the coronavirus, stumbled again last week when the technical head for coronavirus response told the media that “it still seems to be rare that an asymptomatic person actually transmits onward to a secondary individual.” The medical fraternity was quick to react, rejecting her […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Ever heard of Kim Pyong Il? If you haven’t, maybe it’s time you did. According to North Korea watcher Francesco Sisci, Pyong Il is Kim Jong Un’s uncle by virtue of being the younger half brother of the late Kim Jong Il. And just to reinforce the point, Jong Il is Jong Un’s […]Read More
New Delhi: Over a century ago, Armenian Christians in eastern Turkey were subjected to genocide and mass expulsion by the Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid. It is considered to be among the earliest examples of “ethnic cleansing”, with over one million Armenians killed. It is seen as the forerunner of the ethnic cleansing practiced by the […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The hanging of Capt. Majed, one of the conspirators in the assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in 1975, does not necessarily close the file. Key persons who took part in the assassination are still missing and the Bangladesh government would love to get its hand on them. In this edition of Talking Point, […]Read More
KABUL: Gen. Scott Miller, Commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, in a visit to Afghan forces in Kabul on Tuesday said the U.S.-Taliban agreement is a potentially historic agreement for the Afghan people and that “it is fragile if the Taliban are not going to lower violence” and “that causes a risk to […]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: In June last year, Sri Lanka’s external debt reached an all-time high of US $55.5 billion—a drain on an already struggling economy made worse by the deadly Easter Sunday bombings in April that numbed tourism, one of the mainstays of the economy, and jolted investor confidence. Managing debt is the biggest risk to […]Read More
BODH GAYA: The next Dalai Lama if chosen by the Chinese will not be acceptable to the Tibetan community. This assertion has come from the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, whose advancing years have led to considerable speculation about his successor in recent years. The Dalai Lama’s comments, though not made for the first time, will […]Read More
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