Nepal internet crackdown part of global trend toward suppressing online freedomNepal's recent social media ban, following protests and casualties, highlights a global trend of declining internet freedom as governments,...
09 Sep, 2025, 06.09 PM IST
Bangladesh police arrest Liberation War veteran, critic of Yunus-led interim govtBangladesh police arrested Abu Alam Shahid Khan, a 1971 Liberation War veteran and critic of Muhammad Yunus's interim government, amid a cr...
08 Sep, 2025, 03.38 PM IST
'Freedom of expression even for dissenting voices...': US on Awami League workers attacked in BangladeshThe United States has voiced concerns over the detention of hundreds of individuals associated with the Awami League in Bangladesh. This cr...
13 Nov, 2024, 01.32 PM IST
Bangladesh shuts down main opposition newspaperThe only newspaper of Bangladesh's main opposition party halted printing on Monday after a government suspension order was upheld, stoking ...
20 Feb, 2023, 01.24 PM IST
Why Qatar World Cup is the most blatant case of sports used as country’s propaganda toolQatar, the host of the Fifa World Cup that begins tomorrow, has been using this nifty tool for years. The French football club, Paris Saint...
18 Nov, 2022, 11.32 PM IST
Why so many countries, including India, want to sit out the new cold warToday’s geopolitical realities are even messier than they were during the cold war, blurring any neat moral opposition between democracy an...
16 Mar, 2022, 07.01 AM IST
RSS is world's biggest school of patriotism: BJP on Rahul's criticism of Hindutva organisationThe RSS' role is to effect good changes in people and inspire patriotism in them, Union Minister Prakash Javadekar told reporters after he ...
03 Mar, 2021, 07.44 PM IST
China has a long history of Uyghur discrimination: ActivistsThe meeting held on Thursday was organized by the Europe-based Diaspora organization, European Bangladesh Forum (EBF) in collaboration with...
21 Nov, 2020, 04.08 PM IST
View: Xi may have lost the plot on China’s dream of great rejuvenationOver the years, Xi Jinping embarked on his goal of achieving greatness for China by 2049.
29 Jun, 2020, 06.13 PM IST
Govt wanted Kashmir like rest of India, ended up making India like Kashmir: Yashwant SinhaYashwant Sinha said that he was disappointed by the government's approach last year also tried to go to Kashmir but was once "sent back" an...
06 Jan, 2020, 07.02 PM IST
India slips to 42nd place on EIU Democracy Index; US at 21India scored well on electoral process and pluralism, but fell short in the other categories, in the EIU's annual report on the state of de...
31 Jan, 2018, 04.15 PM IST
An honourable defiance that the Supreme Court should be allowed to fumigate itselfSharp as it might seem, the extraordinary public display of disquiet by four senior-most judges of the Supreme Court on Friday is no less a...
13 Jan, 2018, 07.23 AM IST
PM Narendra Modi rues Rajya Sabha not passing GST, says all states would have benefited"Bihar would benefit from GST, Uttar Pradesh would benefit from GST. Barring one or two states, all states would have benefited from GST," ...
13 May, 2016, 01.23 PM IST
Freedom of expression and nationalism co-exist: BJPUnion Minister Arun Jaitley said the Constitution gives full freedom for expressing dissent and disagreement, but not the country's destruc...
20 Mar, 2016, 03.17 PM IST
- Tackling graft in coalition set-up is 'impossible': Omar Abdullah
Tackling corruption in a coalition govt was an impossible task, Omar urged that the electorate to give a clear mandate to a single party to...
15 Oct, 2012, 06.41 PM IST
- Trinamool Congress wrests Nandigram seat from Left Front
TC's victory clearly signals the beginning of decline of the Left in WB.
10 Jan, 2009, 01.52 AM IST
- Kamal Nath spares China the FDI check
Just ahead of Chinese president Hu Jintao’s visit to India starting November 20.
20 Nov, 2006, 03.44 AM IST