Bangladesh cancels top human rights body's licence
June 7 ,2022
Adiba Islam along with her mother takes part in a human chain in Dhaka’s Shahbagh on 10 December 2021. Adiba Is...
Elections within mid-December: Deuba
June 7 ,2022
Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba said that general elections will be held within November or mid-December.
“We are discussing i...
Sri Lanka’s ham-handedness has dismayed traditional friend...
June 7 ,2022
Aeroflot flight preparing to leave after a four day detention.
Colombo: With the Colombo Commercial High Court issuing an orde...
Killings tear Kashmir's fragile social fabric in test for...
June 7 ,2022
A member of India's Central Reserve Police Force stands guard in Srinagar, Kashmir, in late May. © Reuters
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The droopy rupee: Can India's currency be revived?
June 7 ,2022
NEW DELHI -- India's central bank is expected to announce another rise in interest rates at the end of a three-day policy meeting that...
An appalling slur on the civilisation state that is India
June 7 ,2022
The outrage in the Muslim world over the transgression of the red line in anti-Muslim politics in India is understandable, althoug...
Beyond Sri Lanka, economic cyclone bears down on South Asi...
June 7 ,2022
MUMBAI -- For over a decade, Mattias Martinsson has been investing in frontier economies, including Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka....
PRASANNA RANATUNGA SLAPPED WITH 2 YEAR SUSPENDED JAIL TERM
June 7 ,2022
Urban Development and Housing Minister Prasanna Ranatunga has been sentenced to two years rigorous imprisonment, suspended for five yea...
PRESIDENT GOTABAYA RAJAPAKSA REFUSES TO RESIGN
June 7 ,2022
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa will finish the remaining two years of his term despite months-long street protests calling for his ouster...
US SUSPENDING SOLAR PANEL TARIFFS ON FOUR ASIAN NATIONS, N...
June 7 ,2022
US president Joe Biden on Monday will suspend tariffs for two years on solar panel imports from Cambodia, Malaysia, Tha...
SRI LANKA'S PRESIDENT VOWS TO FINISH TERM, BUT WON'T RUN F...
June 7 ,2022
Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa will finish the remaining two years of his term despite months-long street protests calling for...
BRITISH PM JOHNSON SURVIVES NO-CONFIDENCE VOTE
June 7 ,2022
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has survived a no-confidence vote, securing enough support in his party to remain in office despit...
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Takeaways from the Indian elections: an overview
Although the elections just held in four States and one Union Territory in India were provincial, they had immense national importance because national issues and national conditions impinged on them...
Ikram Sehgal
Karachi Canvas
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The Corona pandemic that the world is struggling with for the second year now has brought home to us some truths about ourselves. The first thing is that...
