Having Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s two-day visit to Nepal (5-6 August) was an overture that was long overdue on India’s part. He was the first...

The Trinamool Congress observes 21 July every year as Martyrs’ Day. It was on this day in 1993 that thirteen youths were shot dead by the Left Front...

The disastrous defeat of the Congress in the Lok Sabha elections along with its very poor performance in Assam has considerably weakened the ‘High...

Sheikh Hasina and the Awami League have for now won the battle between the liberal-secular forces and the communal-fundamentalist forces represented...

India’s northeast is the proverbial Cinderella of Mother India. Or, a thorn in her flesh. The northeast makes news in the national media only when...

Elections to the 601-member Constituent Assembly for framing a new federal constitution for Nepal was held on 19 November. The results are now out for...

The other is former PM Begum Khaleda Zia’s Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led 18-party alliance, which includes two rabidly communal parties – the...

India started supplying power to Bangladesh from the 5th of this month. A 98-km dedicated transmission line has been set up between Baharampur in...

The Bangladesh Supreme Court has handed down death sentence to Abdul Qader Mollah, assistant secretary general of Jamaat-e-Islami but better known as...

Elections to Assam’s premier civic body, the Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC), were held on 19 June. The results were declared this Monday. The...

Yet another problem in the Northeast awaits the Centre. It will have to take this up after the end of the monsoon session of Parliament: the ...

The civil government that came to power in Myanmar after the general elections of 2010 has been slowly veering away from the old path. Efforts are on...