Can India claim Katchatheevu Island?
By Admiral Ravindra C Wijegunaratne/The Island Colombo, September 3 – Katchatheevu Island is located in the Palk Bay, one and half nautical miles from the India-Sri Lanka International Maritime Boundary Line (IMBL), on the Sri Lankan side of IMBL. This boundary line was ratified in...
Milinda Moragoda meets with Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman
New Delhi, September 2 – As part of his ongoing engagement with Indian leaders and policymakers, Founder of the Pathfinder Foundation, Milinda Moragoda, met with Finance Minister Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman in New Delhi on Monday. The meeting focused on the turbulence and disruptions currently...
Modi-Xi meet: Can the PM pull off a Vajpayee moment with China at the SCO?
At the SCO summit in Tianjin, India faces a familiar dilemma — peace through compromise, or leverage through pressure. New Delhi will need to think beyond border talks and embrace a multi-dimensional strategy
India committed to improving ties with China, Modi tells Xi
By Laurie Chen Tianjin August 31 (Reuters)- Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said New Delhi was committed to improving ties with China in a key meeting with President Xi Jinping on Sunday, as both leaders discussed the need to expand trade and investment ties against...
Will Modi and Xi follow through and reset ties?
Narendra Modi and Xi Jinping had a bilateral on the sidelines of the Shanghai Coooperation Organization at Tianjin in China on August c
Pakistan and Bangladesh pitch for revival of SAARC
By P.K.Balachandran/Sunday Observer Colombo, August 31 – Pakistan and Bangladesh are now seriously seeking the revival of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC). Both see the usefulness of SAARC in tackling issues the two countries are currently facing vis-à-vis India, the dominant power...
Delhi’s cloud-seeding has precedent: Prof. Subodh Kumar Ghose, India’s rainmaker
By Dr Aurobindo Ghose/www.countercurrents.org As New Delhi prepares its first artificial rain to combat pollution, I recall my father, Prof. Subodh Kumar Ghose, who more than fifty years ago launched salt-filled balloons into the skies — pioneering rainmaking in India. This August month-end, New Delhi...
Indian demographer’s take on alleged massive illegal immigration from Bangladesh
Dr. S. Irudaya Rajan, Chair of the International Institute of Migration and Development in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, advocates a scientific and balanced approach to immigration in India, combining stringent border control with amnesty for immigrants based on economic and humanitarian criteria.
Indian bills to enable President and Governors to oust arrested PM, CMs, and Ministers
Government takes India back to the medieval era says the opposition. But the bills were referred to a Joint Committee after a voice vote. .
India says it is not aware of any Awami League activity on its soil
Bangladesh has sought curbs as Awami League was a banned party
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