By Afshain Afzal India has started a project that would soon utilize cow urine to clean the floors in government offices and other institutions. The distilled urine will be added natural ingredients such as coconut or pine oil to cover the smell of urine. As per the details published in The Economic Times, Jagdish Bhatia, […]

Pathfinder Foundation  PRESS RELEASE  Pathfinder Foundation & Shanghai Institutes for International Studies Hold Second Symposium Focus: Maritime Silk Road & China-Sri Lanka Relations & Shot in the arm for Chinese foreign investment The Second Symposium on the Maritime Silk Road and China-Sri Lanka Relations was held in Shanghai, China from 11th-13 July. The Chinese Embassy […]

 By Jonathan Power Courtesy The Daily Mirror The crime of aggression (planning, preparation, initiation or waging of a war of aggression”) was described by the Nuremberg Tribunal that tried Nazi leaders as the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole”. President George […]

Courtesy The Telegraph By Peter Dominiczak, political editor, Christopher Hope, chief political correspondent and John Bingham 14 JULY 2016 • 11:33PM Theresa May on Thursday unveiled a Cabinet with more state educated ministers than any previous Conservative government. The new Prime Minister’s Cabinet is 70 per cent state educated, with Justine Greening on Thursday becoming the first Education […]

Adaderana July 14, 2016  06:42 pm        Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa says that the recent experience of the European Union has demonstrated that political instability in one country can spread throughout a region and have a devastating impact on far off nations as well. He said that though many have expressed dismay over Britain’s […]

by N.S.Venkataraman Courtesy Sri Lanka Guardian ( July 2, 2016, Chennai, Sri Lanka Guardian) Presenting an oral update on Sri Lanka at the 32nd session of the U N Human Rights Council , nine months after a consensus resolution was adopted on reconciliation and accountability , the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights is reported to […]

Theresa May has become British Prime Minister, succeeding David Cameron after a brief audience with Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace. Speaking outside Number 10 Downing Street after taking office, she stressed her commitment to the union and issued a call to make Britain a country that works for everyone.” Her government will fight against […]

ALI SUKHANVER ‘The violence has shaken the whole country, as it appears to be the first attempt at a major attack directed entirely at Muslims,’ says CNN in a report on recent disturbance in Bangladesh. But fact of the matter is that whatever happened there in Bangladesh during the last few weeks is neither unpredicted […]

By Afshain Afzal American dual nationality holder and renowned social worker, Mr. Abdus Sattar Edhi died in a local hospital on 8 July 2016, after a prolonged illness and a lot of pain and discomfort for years. His funeral prayers were attended by Chief Minister Sind, Chief Minister Punjab, general public, and a large number […]

By Rudra Gamini de Zoysa. “I will be with you, whatever”. This is not a line from one of Frank Sinatra’s love songs. This is Blair’s pledge to his master George W Bush. The Chilcot Report is finally out and I do not want to vomit the facts stated in that 2.6-million-word commentary. The inquiry […]

Sukhoi 30 in action. It can hover and take off vertically. It is a marvel of technology.

 By NJ Thakuria Guwahati: The lone Bangladeshi Nobel laureate  Professor Muhammad Yunus expressed shock at the barbarity of the terrorists, who killed 20 hostages and two Bangladeshi police officers in cold blood at Dhaka’s Holey Artisan Bakery on 1 July evening and pleaded for a new world of equality and dignity. Meanwhile, following the barbaric […]

By Dr Kamal Wickremasinghe July 5, 2016, 12:00 pm Politics and the English Language, the most famous shorter work of George Orwell, is notable for providing a list of writing tips to aspiring writers as well as for its savagely disdainful view of politicians’ use of language. Orwell writes: “In our time, political speech and […]

by Bruno Marshall Shirley, International Policy Digest, 29 Jun 2016 United Nations, New York — This month the UN released a report addressing serious” human rights violations against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar at the hands of the Buddhist majority, and the two-year anniversary of Sri Lanka’s deadly Aluthgama and Dharga Town riots, allegedly incited by Buddhist […]

Janaki Chandraratna Courtesy The Island June 27, 2016, 7:52 pm The Brexit referendum is a historic event for both the UK and the rest of the world. Britain voted to exit from the European Union (EU), with a vote of 52% to 48%, after 43 years of membership since 1973. The Exit camp listed 20 good […]

John Pilger Courtesy John Pilger.com The majority vote by Britons to leave the European Union was an act of raw democracy. Millions of ordinary people refused to be bullied, intimidated and dismissed with open contempt by their presumed betters in the major parties, the leaders of the business and banking oligarchy and the media. This was, in […]

By Dr Upul Wijayawardhana Courtesy The Island For once, a nation has stood for its pride and honour defying bullying pundits and politicians. It said enough is enough; the worm has turned; on June 23, United Kingdom voted to get out of the European Union, rather unexpectedly, dropping a bombshell on world markets. If as some […]

Courtesy BBC The UK has voted to quit the European Union following a referendum on its membership. So how did the Leave campaign win? 1. Brexit economic warnings backfire What started off as a trickle soon became a steady stream and ended up as a flood. The public was bombarded with warnings about how they […]

 RT Russian President Vladimir Putin says ‘Brexit’ is the choice made by the British nation and is a comprehensible one, as no one wants to feed weak economies.” Russia has not and does not plan to interfere with the results of the referendum, he added. TrendsBrexit Read more British politics in post-Brexit turmoil after vote […]

By Our Correspondent Guwahati: New Delhi based senior journalist Syed Nazakat has been elected to the board of directors of Global Investigative Journalism Network (GIJN), a Washington DC based international media body. Nazakat ran unopposed to become the representative for the Asia Pacific region and he would serve a two-year term in the forum. Besides […]

ALI SUKHANVER Who was Major Ali Jawad Changaizi the officer of Pakistan Army who sacrificed his life at Pak-Afghan Torkham border a few days back; a very few people know. He was the son of Brigadier Khadim Hussain Changaizi, the first Commissioner for Afghan Refugees in 90s in Balochistan. Before becoming president, Hamid Karzai also […]

By Our Correspondent Guwahati: Understanding the endless difficulties and financial limitations faced by the media persons, voices have been raised for a group life & health insurance coverage for the media employees including working & freelance journalists engaged with various media outlets of the city. The members of Guwahati Press Club emphasize on a participatory […]

 By NJ Thakuria Guwahati: Asian Development Bank (ADB) appreciates the ‘successful political transition’ in Myanmar’s development in the recent past and assures all possible supports in promoting education, quality jobs and enhance infrastructures in the southeast Asian country. The ADB president Takehiko Nakao recently met with Myanmar’s President U Htin Kyaw and the Burmese foreign […]

By NJ Thakuria Guwahati: Burma News International (BNI), while arguing that the media always works for humanitarian interest across the globe, urges the Myanmar government at NayPieTaw to review the case related to a senior journalist working for British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and pardon Ko Nay Myo Lin. In a statement issued on 9 June […]

by Tai Beiping, Xia Lixin  Source: Xinhua “U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter’s remarks will not help build bridges between countries. What’s important to do at present is to have a collaborative approach, rather than harsh comments,” said Asanga Abeyagoonasekera, a visiting lecturer in International Political Economy for University of London in Sri Lanka Royal Institute […]

Source: Xinhua | BEIJING, June 6 (Xinhua) — Experts of Asian nations Sunday refuted China’s “self-isolation” claims by U.S. Pentagon chief Ashton Carter. In his speech during the ongoing 15th Shangri-La Dialogue, which focuses on the security of the Asia-Pacific, Carter said Saturday that China could end up “erecting a Great Wall of self-isolation.” “Carter’s […]

ALI SUKHANVER Has anyone ever thought of those wretched ones who migrated to Pakistan from Afghanistan almost three decades back? Will the Ashraf Ghani government say them welcome if the government of Pakistan sternly decides to push them back to the land they actually belong to? And what would be the choice of these refugees […]

By Our Correspondent Guwahati, June 4: The Narayana Super-specialty Hospital has offered the Journalist Privilege Cards to the member-journalists of Guwahati Press Club.  Over 175 health cards were distributed among the scribes in a function held today at GPC auditorium. Senior officials of the north Guwahati based hospital including Amit G. Choudhury, Shantanu Bhattacharjee with […]

By Pepe Escobar Courtesy Information Clearing House May 23, 2016 “Information Clearing House” – “RT” – So foreign ministers from the 28 NATO member-nations met in Brussels for a two-day summit, while mighty military power Montenegro was inducted as a new member. Global Robocop NATO predictably discussed Afghanistan (a war NATO ignominiously lost); Iraq (a war the […]

 By Our Correspondent Guwahati: Assam Press Correspondents’ Union (APCU) has organized a media talk and also a health camp for its members on 30 May. The general health check-up for the participants will be sponsored by Assam’s well known Dispur Hospitals, where the second dose of Hepatitis-B vaccine will also be administered at APCU’s head […]