India’s focus on ‘Act East’ policy, making ‘friends’ of Kim

While the whole world is looking at Central and West Asia, India is focusing on the East with the ‘Act East’ policy. That too silently. Suddenly, India is making a ‘significant’ change in its policy with North Korea. It is learned that the closed doors of the Indian embassy in North Korea have reopened. Experts […]

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India to open detention center for ‘illegal Bangladeshis’

Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has announced the construction of a detention center for ‘illegal Bangladeshis’. ABP Live reports. He said that a good detention center will be built in Mumbai to house illegal Bangladeshi immigrants. The reason for this, he said, is that they cannot be kept directly in jail. The Maharashtra Chief Minister […]

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Adani, under bribery scrutiny, pressed by Bangladesh to reopen power deal

In 2017, the Indian company controlled by billionaire Gautam Adani signed an agreement with Bangladesh to provide power from its coal-fired plant in eastern India. Bangladesh’s interim government has accused energy supplier Adani Power of breaching a multi-billion-dollar agreement by withholding tax benefits that a power plant central to the deal received from New Delhi, […]

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Trump threatens to impose additional tariffs on Indian products

Before taking oath, US President-elect Donald Trump has threatened to impose additional tariffs on Indian products. At the same time, he has said that he will apply the same policy to Brazil. According to PTI, Donald Trump spoke to reporters at his residence in Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday. There, he said, if any country imposes additional […]

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Elon Musk says Starlink inactive in India after second device seized

Starlink is seeking approval in India to provide satellite broadband services and the Musk-owned company is trying to address any potential security concerns as part of the process. Elon Musk said Starlink satellite internet is inactive in India, his first comments since authorities seized two of the company’s devices in recent weeks, one in an […]

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Indian soldiers battle rebels in Kashmir, five killed

Indian security forces in Kashmir on Thursday killed at least five suspected gunmen in ongoing clashes, the army said, the latest outbreak of violence in the disputed Muslim-majority Himalayan region. Kashmir has been divided between nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan since their partition at the chaotic end of British rule in 1947, and both countries […]

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Rise of Paresh Baruah and ULFA: Northeast India’s insurgency saga

The history of the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) is deeply intertwined with the story of its military commander, Paresh Baruah. A central figure in Northeast India’s insurgency, Paresh’s journey from a young idealist to one of the region’s most wanted insurgents reflects the complex socio-political dynamics of Assam and its struggle for identity. […]

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Video of Indian temple ritual falsely linked to Hindu attacks in Bangladesh

Following reports of attacks against Hindus in Muslim-majority Bangladesh, a video spread in social media posts that falsely claimed it showed a Muslim mob vandalising an idol of a Hindu goddess in the South Asian country. The footage, however, was filmed in neighbouring India’s West Bengal state. It shows villagers dismantling a statue of Hindu […]

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