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CEO Tim Cook personally welcomed customers to the new Apple store in Mumbai as the tech company opens its first retail stores in India. CNN’s Vedika...
Atiq Ahmed, a former lawmaker in India’s parliament, convicted of kidnapping, was shot dead along with his brother while police were escorting them for a medical...
The Indian army said in a statement the Pakistani army “resorted to arbitrary firing”, including gunfire and artillery shelling, across the Line of Control, the de...
Last month, Bharti Airtel and Reliance Jio announced partnerships with Starlink to provide satellite-facilitated internet connectivity in India, probably speeding the conclusion of Starlink’s five-year journey...
According to Encyclopedia Britannica, a middle power can be defined as “a state that holds a position in the international power spectrum that is in the...
The recent spate of high-profile attacks, including the Jaffer Express’ hijacking in March, by the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA), points to its evolution from a group...
Early in April, a video showing a group of men in a fish market in India’s national capital of New Delhi sternly asking vendors to close...
There has been a lot of diplomatic activity between Pakistan and the United States in recent weeks regarding cooperation in the area of critical minerals. At...
The Ganga Water Treaty is crucial to Bangladesh-India relations because it guarantees a systematic process for water sharing between the two riparian states. The treaty, signed in...
When U.S. President Donald Trump announced the withdrawal of the United States from the Paris Agreement on Climate Change on January 20, 2025, the global climate...
Eight months after the ouster of Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bangladesh’s Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus met for the first...
India still relies on the labor-intensive coal sector and coal-based thermal power plants to meet most of its electricity demand for sustaining its economic growth. In...
India and Sri Lanka signed seven Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) during Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the island on April 4-6. The MoUs cover...
On March 26, 2025, Muhammad Yunus, the chief adviser of the interim government of Bangladesh, visited China and signed an agreement on economic and technological cooperation...
March marked the fourth year that Afghan girls were told their minds are still unwanted, and that education for any female over 12 was still impossible....
On January 20, 2025, his first day in office, U.S. President Donald Trump signaled a pivotal turnaround in U.S. foreign policy, paving the way for arguably...
An Indian Navy Offshore Patrol Vessel (NOPV), INS Sunayna, was flagged off from Karwar naval base on a mission of multinational cooperation on April 5 by Defense...
Within the space of six weeks, over February and March, I went from Fiji to Munich to Delhi. The tensions that arose from announcements of the...
With Narendra Modi and Donald Trump winning reelection last year, India-U.S. observers expect deeper alignment between the countries, despite likely friction on trade. India’s strident assertions...
On April 7, Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar held a telephone conversation with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio – their first discussion since the current...
Like much of the world, Bangladesh had a hard time in early April when it woke up to the news of a new reciprocal tariff imposed...
The Communist Party of India (Marxist), better known as the CPI(M), the largest Left party in the country, has a new general secretary — Mariam Alexander...
Mahrang Baloch, the leader of a peaceful resistance movement in Balochistan, was arrested by authorities in Pakistan about a fortnight ago. The arrest indicates a growing...
It’s been three and a half years since the Taliban resumed power in Afghanistan. Unrelenting in the pursuit of profit and control, the Taliban have repeatedly...
Amid the high-profile examples of U.S. engagement with South Asia – including last February’s visit by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the United States –...
It’s been almost 20 years since India and the United States announced the launch of a civil nuclear cooperation initiative. That laid the framework for the...
When U.S. President Donald Trump announced double-digit tariffs on countries around the world, what he dubbed a “Liberation Day” for U.S. trade, it roiled global markets....
Last month, the Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) unveiled a next-generation short-range ballistic missile (SRBM) at a defense exhibition in Hyderabad. Dubbed as the BM-04,...
On August 19, 2023, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, then a Sri Lankan opposition leader, criticized a memorandum of understanding (MoU) that then-President Ranil Wickremesinghe had signed with...
Pakistan’s stock exchange plunged sharply on Monday after U.S. President Donald Trump imposed new sweeping tariffs on global trading partners, including Pakistan. The market fell more than...
In a bizarre replay of life imitating art, in this case a comedy show, standup comedian Kunal Kamra was viciously targeted by workers of the ruling...
India’s maritime aspirations have long revolved around the dream of a blue water navy – one capable of projecting power far from its shores. But as...
The double-digit tariff hikes imposed by the United States’ Trump administration have buckled Asia to its knees. Markets have plummeted, costs have risen, and outlooks on...
Bangladesh’s political landscape has undergone seismic shifts over the past decade, marked by the rise of authoritarianism under Sheikh Hasina and the eventual ousting of her...
As the global economy undergoes disruption due to the Trump administration’s recent tariffs, major export-led economies like South Korea face an urgent need to diversify by...
On March 16, Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) chief Daniel Rogers was in New Delhi to attend a meeting of intelligence chiefs chaired by India’s National...
KULGAM, INDIAN-ADMINISTERED KASHMIR – The recent recovery of the bodies of Showkat Ahmad Bhajad and Riyaz Ahmad Bhajad from Kulgam stream in Indian-administered Kashmir brought a...
Myanmar’s opposition National Unity Government (NUG) has made a strong case for India’s increased engagement with the country’s resistance movement aimed at toppling the military regime....
In a surprising and unexpected move, the United States recently removed the names of three top leaders of the Haqqani Network – Sirajuddin Haqqani, Yahya Haqqani,...
On March 31, Russia’s Supreme Court announced that it had received a petition from Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov seeking to lift the ban on the Taliban. The Supreme...
In late September 2024, following vague evacuation warnings from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), Israeli airstrikes targeted the southern suburbs of Beirut, including the neighborhood of...
On April 4-5, leaders of the BIMSTEC countries — Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Thailand — gathered in Bangkok for the grouping’s sixth...
In October 2017, senior representatives and military officers from the six member states of the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC)...
The April 4 meeting between Nepali Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli and his Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi, on the sidelines of the 6th BIMSTEC Summit in...
On April 5, India President Droupadi Murmu gave her assent to the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2025. The new law, which has been renamed the Unified Waqf...
When Donald Trump announced his new tariff rules for more than 180 countries on April 2, what he termed as “Liberation Day,” it sent shockwaves across...
U.S. President Donald Trump has initiated a global trade war — politely called “reciprocal tariffs.” Tariffs are taxes that countries levy on imported goods which make...
New Delhi faces a difficult choice between attempting to ease tariffs through diplomatic channels or imposing counter-tariffs on U.S. goods. Source link
For centuries, Indian Muslims have managed tens of thousands of holy sites across India, stewarding properties such as mosques, madrasas, orphanages, and graveyards – endowments made...
Two weeks after the International Monetary Fund (IMF) completed its third review of Sri Lanka’s Extended Fund Facility, unlocking millions in critical funding, President Anura Kumara...
