India signed an agreement with Bangladesh providing $4.5 billion credit line for infrastructure projects. The loan was announced during Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s visit to India in April and is perhaps the biggest Line of Credit (LoC) provided by India to any country. After the ...
It was a foreign bank in Afghanistan. While opening a bank account a woman was asked about her mother’s name. She couldn’t remember. In Afghanistan’s staunchly patriarchal society, women are often publicly identified by the names of their male relatives. There are no traces of a mother’s nam...
Shyamal Dutta Former Director General of Police, West Bengal The last couple of years have witnessed a significant decline in violence associated with left wing extremism (LWE) in India. In 2008, the then Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, had warned, “Naxalism is the greatest t...
Exactly one hour and twenty minutes. It was enough time for the President of the United States of America Donald Trump to make the world understand why many of his Republican Party members doubt his abilities as President.The US citizens saw a new stunt by their President regarding racist aggression...
Nepal is a land-locked central Himalayan country in South Asia located between China and India. The country is divided into seven provinces. It has about 25.2% population living below the poverty line as per the 2011 estimates.Land reforms had started in Nepal in 1951. An official policy issued in 1...
India is soon to complete the seventieth year as an independent nation. We will celebrate our 71st Independence Day on August 15, 2017. On this occasion we will remember with gratitude those hundreds and thousands of freedom fighters who sacrificed their lives to liberate their motherland from the s...
Always stay under the deep water, never come up. Remember that a whale can only be hunted when it comes up. This was the advice given to four young American scions by their father. The father, Fred Chase Koch, commanded one of the largest petroleum empires in the US. He was an American chemical engi...
Exchange between Japan and India is perceived to have begun in the 6th century when Buddhism was introduced to Japan. Indian culture, filtered through Buddhism, has had a great impact on Japanese culture and that can be an important contributing factor to the Japanese people’s sense of closeness t...
Mao Zedong once said, “When faced with an opponent, one should push till one meets resistance”, and that could perhaps be what the Chinese are doing at the moment. For over four weeks, India and China have been involved in a standoff along part of their 3500 km shared border. The two nations fou...
The recent Maoist attack in the Sukma district of Chhattisgarh on April 24, 2017 was the latest incident of large scale left wing extremism in India. The attack was an ambush carried out by the Maoists against the Indian paramilitary forces in the Kala Pathar region near Chinta gufa in Sukma....