Sep 15, 2024, at 12:30 pm
On May 11, 2023, one Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) trooper was injured while another had a narrow escape in an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) blast triggered by Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres in Ichahatu village under Goilkera Police Station limits in the West Singhbhum District of Jharkhand.
Meghalaya: Simmering Conflicts
Sep 15, 2024, at 12:31 pm
On March 20, 2023, Meghalaya Governor Phagu Chauhan informed the State Assembly about the decision of the Hynniewtrep National Liberation Council (HNLC) to engage in unconditional talks within the ambit of the Indian Constitution.
Bihar’s Khatoon shows lovely way to empower rural women
Sep 15, 2024, at 12:31 pm
There was a time when it was considered bad for women to go out for business or work. Women working especially in rural areas had to face many challenges.
Sep 15, 2024, at 12:31 pm
On March 9, 2023, Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres shot dead a tribal youth, Sainath Narote (26), at Mardhur village in the Bhamragarh Taluka (administrative division) in Gadchiroli District. The Maoists picked him up from his house on the suspicion that he was a Police informant and shot him dead.
Article 370 revocation changes minds, hearts of Jammu and Kashmir people
Sep 15, 2024, at 12:31 pm
Revocation of Article 370, a temporary provision in the Constitution of India, three years ago changed the minds and hearts of Jammu and Kashmir residents and transformed their lives.
Sep 15, 2024, at 12:52 pm
On January 13, 2023, Jiban Singha alias Jiban Koch Timir Das, ‘chief’ of the Kamtapur Liberation Organisation (KLO), surrendered before the Assam Rifles in the Longwa area along the Indo-Myanmar border in Nagaland.
Sep 15, 2024, at 12:53 pm
From collecting seeds of fruits thrown away by the shopkeepers & planting them on his farmland, to living his dream of becoming a farmer with a difference, today he has three thriving nurseries of different varieties of fruit trees and spices, honey, and ever-evolving fish ponds and nurseries which cater to markets across the border in Myanmar and also local buyers.
India-Bangladesh relations scaling new heights
Sep 15, 2024, at 12:53 pm
Bangladesh has a special place in the Indian foreign policy matrix, and India-Bangladesh relations are rooted in tradition, culture, language, and mutual values such as secularism, democracy, and a plethora of other similarities.
Sep 15, 2024, at 12:53 pm
On December 8, 2022, the Taliban publicly flogged nine women and 18 men in a football stadium in Charikar city, the capital of Parwan Province, for the crimes, variously, of robbery, being in premarital relationships and running away from home. Each of them received between 29 and 35 lashes. Local Taliban officials and hundreds of spectators witnessed the scene.
Chinese growth story is facing a serious headwind
Sep 15, 2024, at 12:53 pm
Beijing: China’s exports fell by 0.3% in October 2022 from a year ago in dollar terms, missing analysts’ expectations for a decent increase.
Odisha: Nuapada - Recurrent Menace
Sep 15, 2024, at 12:53 pm
On November 4, 2022, State Director General of Police (DGP), Sunil Kumar Bansal, on the sidelines of the inauguration of the District Intelligence and Operation Centre in Nuapada District, disclosed that a joint task force to combat Left Wing Extremism (LWE) would be formed in view of the vulnerabilities of the district to Naxalites (Left Wing Extremist) activities in neighbouring Chhattisgarh.
Jammu and Kashmir: Terrorizing 'outsiders'
Sep 15, 2024, at 12:53 pm
On November 3, 2022, two non-local labourers working in the Sabir Abdullah Public School, a private institution, were shot at and injured by terrorists on the school premises in the Wanihama area of Anantnag District. The injured were identified as Vikram from Bihar and Bahadur from Nepal.
Pakistan: Swat: Return of the TTP
Sep 15, 2024, at 12:54 pm
On October 10, 2022, the son of a local peace committee member was shot dead by unidentified terrorists in the Waliabad area of Swat District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP).
Sep 15, 2024, at 12:54 pm
On October 5, 2022, a suicide bomber detonated his device inside a mosque in the Ministry of Interior (MoI) in Kabul city, killing at least four worshippers and injuring 25. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the incident. Interestingly, this incident coincides with the reported deterioration of relations between Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and the Haqqani Network led by Interior Minister Sirajuddin Haqqani, which is mediating talks between TTP and the Pakistani government.
Jharkhand: JJMP - A Withering Force
Sep 15, 2024, at 12:54 pm
Research Associate, Institute for Conflict Management
Amid the tension with China, it is time to unveil the beauty and strength of Taiwan for Indians
Sep 15, 2024, at 12:54 pm
Taiwan-China geopolitical tension created a loop for Taiwan in the Indian news headlines. We can further leverage this pinnacle tension period to explore Taiwan.
IS-KP - Taliban: Puritanical Killings
Sep 15, 2024, at 12:54 pm
On August 17, 2022, a suicide attack killed at least 21 civilians, including a prominent Sufi cleric Mullah Amir Mohammad Kabuli, and injured at least 27, in the Siddiquiya Mosque located in the Kher Khanna neighborhood in Police District (PD) 17 of Kabul city. No group has claimed responsibility, but the role of the Islamic State-Khorasan Province (IS-KP) is strongly suspected.
Sep 15, 2024, at 12:55 pm
Research Associate, Institute for Conflict Management
The Growth of Vietnamese Capital Market And Need For SSC Surveillance
Sep 15, 2024, at 12:55 pm
The Vietnamese capital market has come a long way since the trade of its first stock at the Ho Chi Min (HCM) Stock Trading Centre on 28th July 2000. Although capital market trade in Vietnam started in 2000 and was low until 2008-09, it rose post the global financial crisis of 2008-09, when Vietnam decided to participate in the World Trade Organisation.
Somali army kills 12 al-Shabab militants
Sep 15, 2024, at 12:56 pm
Mogadishu/UNI/Xinhua: Somali National Army (SNA) said its forces killed 12 al-Shabab terrorists during security operations conducted in several locations in the past 24 hours in the Hiraan region, central part of the country.
Sep 15, 2024, at 12:56 pm
The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan has declared an indefinite ceasefire. A TTP statement issued on June 2 reads,
Sep 15, 2024, at 12:56 pm
On May 30, 2022, two soldiers and as many children sustained injuries when a suicide bomber struck a vehicle of the Security Forces (SFs) parked at a checkpost in the Dosali area of the Razmak subdivision in the North Waziristan District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP).
Sep 15, 2024, at 12:56 pm
On May 23, 2022, two soldiers were killed when terrorists attacked Security Forces (SFs) in the Mir Ali area of North Waziristan District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP).
Will Taiwan's New Southbound Policy think tank bring it closer to India?
Sep 15, 2024, at 12:58 pm
To bridge the knowledge gap between Taiwan and India, Taiwan-Asia Exchange Foundation (TAEF), Taiwan’s pilot New Southbound Policy think tank, works closely with Indian think tanks. What have they achieved? A CommonWealth Magazine report by Sana Hashmi and Alan H. Yang
Sep 15, 2024, at 12:58 pm
On May 5, unidentified gunmen killed two former Afghan National Army soldiers, a father and his son, in the Dehrawood District of Urozgan Province.
Sep 15, 2024, at 12:58 pm
On April 26, 2022, senior officials of the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (UMHA) have warned the Police about possible Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) activities in West Bengal, along with its neighbouring States of Bihar, Jharkhand and Odisha. During a meeting of the Standing Committee of the Eastern Zonal Council that took place at the West Bengal State secretariat of Nabanna under the Shibpur Police Station limits of Howrah District, West Bengal, on April 26, an alert was issued by senior officials of the UMHA that the following 15 days would be extremely crucial for these four States, as there were central intelligence inputs of resurgent Maoist activities in the region.
The War in Ukraine, and Some Disturbing Questions
Sep 15, 2024, at 12:58 pm
No matter who wins, the proxy war between the US led western powers and Russia’s Vladimir Putin is going to change the world order in unexpected and startling ways, writes Ramananda Sengupta
Midst of escalating financial and petroleum crises, India launches a rescue effort on Sri Lanka
Sep 15, 2024, at 12:58 pm
As Sri Lanka's economic crisis deepened, political instability erupted in the form of large-scale protests. Sri Lankans were irked by the government's mismanagement of financial affairs,corruption and bad judgment on initiatives that backfired, leaving the country impoverished - mostly in terms of lacking foreign exchange reserves.
Arunachal Pradesh: Enduring Challenges
Sep 15, 2024, at 12:59 pm
On March 20, 2022, two militants of the Isak Muivah faction of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN-IM) were killed and another one was injured in an encounter with the Security Forces (SFs) at Old Kolagaon area near Khonsa in the Tirap District. Following the gunfight, one militant was arrested and arms and ammunition, including one AK 56 rifle with a magazine, one Carbine, one Pistol, a large stockpile of ammunition and other materials were recovered from the site.