NEW DELHI: With United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’s offer of mediation, along with four bipartisan U.S. senators having recently written to U.S. secretary of state Mike Pompeo voicing concerns about the human rights situation in Kashmir, New Delhi would certainly welcome a statement of reassurance from President Donald Trump, especially when he is in India. But […]Read More
NEW DELHI: A reduction of violence deal between the Taliban, U.S. and foreign forces as well as the Afghan security personnel has been agreed to from midnight of February 21/22. This will be monitored for a week before an expected U.S.-Taliban agreement signing in Doha on February 29. India’s ex-Ambassador to Afghanistan Gautam Mukhopadhaya and […]Read More
COLOMBO: Two rights bodies today claimed that the new government of Sri Lanka, headed by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, has unleashed a chilling process of repression targeting critics and human rights defenders. The International Truth and Justice Project – Sri Lanka (ITJP) and Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka (JDS) said intimidation and threats to critics […]Read More
His Holiness Dalai Lama speaks frankly on the future of Tibet, the possibility of his reincarnation and being the ‘longest staying’ guest of India. In conversation with our Editor-in-Chief Nitin A. Gokhale. Transcript: Q: Thank you very much for your time, His Holiness. It’s a privilege and an honour and always good to […]Read More
CANBERRA: Hundreds of Australians have been arrested for allegedly deliberately lighting Australian bushfires in only a matter of months. Australia is currently enduring one of the worst bushfire crises in the nation’s history, with at least 25 people having been killed since September. ‘The Australian’ reported on Tuesday that 183 people have been arrested for […]Read More
NEW DELHI: It wasn’t a tweet but a trip that rekindles talks with the Taliban. U.S. President Donald Trump, on his first visit to Afghanistan-where America is fighting and many say losing its longest war ever-has announced peace talks with the Taliban, that he called off, have restarted. In an unannounced trip, President Trump flew […]Read More
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