Nepal has picked Pokhara as the venue for hosting the ‘Saarc Mini Summit on March 17’. The government had also planned to host the 18th Saarc Summit in the lake city but it did not materialise due to logistical reasons.…
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Modi on surprise Pakistan visit to meet Sharif
Lahore – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a surprise visit to Pakistan on Friday to meet his counterpart Nawaz Sharif, weeks after the nuclear-armed rivals decided to restart high-level peace talks. It was the first time an Indian premier…
Blair can’t even apologise correctly for destabilising Middle East
By Juan Cole Former British PM Tony Blair reiterated on Sunday some of his previous half-hearted ‘apologies’ for illegally launching a war of aggression on Iraq in 2003. Blair’s ‘apologies’ always take the form of the little boy who, when…
7 Bangladeshis returned from Indian jail
Seven Bangladesh nationals returned home from India on Thursday night after languishing in Indian jail.
South Korea to stop loudspeakers North Korea issues “regrets”
South Korea will stop anti-North Korea loudspeaker broadcasts on “condition of no abnormal situations,” as North Korea issues “regret” for recent “provocations” and promises they won’t recur, Yonhap News Agency said. The agreement was part of a larger six-part agreement…
North Korea fights back, broadcasts own propaganda at South
Competing broadcasts will mostly serve to drown one another out, military official says North Korea will start broadcasting its own propaganda at the DMZ in the hopes of drowning out the South Korean broadcasts there, South Korea’s Kyunghyang Sinmun reported…
4 Myanmar nationals held
Members of Chittagong Metropolitan Police arrested four Myanmar nationals from Chittagong Shah Amanat Bridge area at 11 am today.