After a poor showing in the Constituent Assembly elections, Nepal’s once powerful Maoist leader, Pushpa Kamal Dahal alias Prachanda, is under pressure to give up his leadership. Holding him responsible for the results, several party leaders, including second-in-command and former prime minister Baburam Bhattarai, have sought his exit as chairman of the Unified Communist Party […]
Music concerts, photo exhibition and Indian film shows will be part of a festival organised by the Indian embassy here to increase the visibility and awareness of India in Slovenia, a country of just two million people in central Europe. The “Days of India in Slovenia” festival, Jan 18-30, has been supported by the external […]
At least 28 people were injured Sunday in bomb blasts at the anti-government protest site in Thai capital Bangkok. Bombs exploded at the Victory Monument in the afternoon, the site of protests. This was the second bomb attack on protestors since the operation to paralyse Bangkok was launched Jan 13 in a bid to oust […]
A wave of violent attacks left at least 22 people killed and 65 wounded in the Iraqi capital city Saturday, police said. The deadliest blast occurred in the Mansour district of Baghdad, leaving six civilians killed and 12 injured, Xinhua quoted a police source as saying. Four civilians were killed and 13 wounded when a […]
Anish Goel, a former key Indian-American aide of President Barack Obama, has joined Washington think tank New America’s National Security Programme as a Senior South Asia Fellow. As a Senior Fellow for South Asia, Goel will write on US foreign policy in South Asia, regional dynamics, and their implications for US national security, the think […]
African envoys will meet officials of the external affairs ministry later Saturday to allay their concerns in the wake of the alleged misbehaviour with some African nationals by supporters of a Delhi minister. The ambassadors of the African countries have been called to South Block in the evening for a meeting following concern expressed by […]
A nun has given birth to a boy in the Italian city of Rieti. The nun, originally from El Salvador, claimed she did not know that she was pregnant. She was rushed to a hospital after experiencing severe abdominal pain. An ultrasound scan revealed she was expecting a full-term baby, who was delivered by doctors […]
Four Ugandan nationals Friday registered a police case against “unknown persons” for misbehaving with them during the early Thursday raid by a Delhi minister and his party cadre, said police officials. The four women, including one who was beaten up, have also sent their complaints to the Ugandan High Commission here, a senior police official […]
The US has no virtually no leverage over Iran by keeping the country isolated and it is only the country’s inclusion in the global economic system that will lead to its democratisation, argued two Iranian diaspora authors settled in the West. Reza Aslan and Fariba Hatchtroudi also contended that the spark, for what is now […]
Pakistan Thursday said barriers to bilateral trade with India have to be removed. Pakistan’s Commerce Minister Khurram Dastgir Khan said other impediments to boosting India-Pakistan trade such as non-tariff barriers, lack of adequate connectivity and transportation, issues of standards, customs harmonisation, communication, visa facilitation, payment mechanisms and dispute resolution need to be addressed. Addressing an […]