Mumbai, May 25 (newsin.asia): While a section of Bollywood is engaged in a twitter war against “traitors” and “Pakistani agents”, a Bollywood film which has a Pakistani actress in the lead is doing roaring business at the box office. The ban on Pakistani artistes imposed by the thuggish Shiv Sena some months ago has apparently […]
By Omar Abdullah Srinagar, May 25/Indian Express On April 9, the day of the election to the vacant Srinagar parliamentary seat, a cornered paramilitary unit in Budgam district called the army for assistance to secure a polling booth they were afraid would be run over by a mob. The army unit that responded to this […]
By Shiv Visvanathan/Scroll In Sometimes history and especially the history of violence has a way of teaching us lessons by telling the story from different angles. The classic narrative often cited in this context is Akira Kurosawa’s classic movie Rashomon where a murder is seen from three perspectives. The emphasis here is not to create a picture […]
By M.K.Bhadrakumar/www.rediff.com The initial reports from Pakistan regarding the International Court of Justice’s interim order on the Kulbhushan Jadhav “spying” case give a sinking feeling. If chances of Pakistan carrying out the death sentence were evenly poised, the balance now tilts in favor of execution. It’s now, say, 75% to 25% in favor of execution. […]
By M.K.Bhadrakumar/Russia Insider An exclusive story in Times of India that India has made Russian projects to construct more nuclear power plants in India conditional on Moscow persuading Beijing to give up its opposition to India’s membership of the Nuclear Suppliers Group. India argues that sans NSG membership it will be constrained to settle for an […]
The Hague, May 18 (newsin.asia): The International Court of Justice (ICJ), the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, on Thursday told Pakistan that it must “take all measures at its disposal” to ensure that Kulbhushan Sudhir Jadhav, of Indian national, is not executed pending a final judgment of the court in a case of […]
By P.K.Balachandran/www.southasianmonitor.com Colombo, May 16 : A joint security mechanism against terrorism, including a pervasive country-wide surveillance system, is a key feature of the agreement between China and Pakistan on the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), Dawn reported in an exclusive piece on Monday. The document says that the two countries will “jointly prevent and crack […]
New Delhi, May 17 (newsin.asia): Those young Kashmiris who have been throwing stones at the Indian security forces with devastating effect, are paid INR 1,000 (US$ 16) to INR 7000 (US$ 110) per month presumably by Pakistani agents, India Today magazine said in an expose done by its undercover reportera. A group of stone throwers […]
Colombo, May 11: The world-renowned sand sculptor Sudarsan Pattnaik, who is in the Sri Lankan capital to exhibit his mammoth reclining Buddha at the International Vesak celebrations on May 12, has been wedded to sand since the age of 8 and cannot think of a day when he will be divorced from it ,writes P.K.Balachandran […]
Colombo, May 11: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is on a determined mission to use Buddhism, which had its birth in India and spread to other parts of South and East Asia from there, as a “soft power” to influence Buddhist countries in South and East Asia and to earn money by promoting “Buddhist tourism”, […]