Nepal’s political crisis

From economist.com

IF NEPAL’S mainstream politicians, army and Big Brother, India did not like Maoists in government, it is hard to imagine how the scrubbed-up guerrillas will be improved out of it. The resignation of the Maoist prime minister, Pushpa Kamal Dahal, or Prachanda (“fierce”), on May 4th offers a chance to find out. Mr Dahal [...]

Obama holds talks with Zardari, Karzai

By Ashish Kumar Sen from The Tribune
US President Barack Obama met Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari and Afghan President Hamid Karzai at the White House on Wednesday and urged them to jointly tackle the threat posed by the Taliban in their countries. Neither Zardari nor Karzai are seen likely to be able to deliver on [...]

Money, muscle power on display in Sikkim Assembly polls

From the Assam Tribune
NEW DELHI, April 28 – Muscle and money power are both on abundant display in Assembly elections in Sikkim, with major political parties fielding 23 history-sheeters and 39 multi-millionaires, even though not a single woman is in the fray in the State.
Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) and National Election Watch (NEW), [...]

Indian Navy ship nabs nine sea pirates off Seychelles

From the PTI News.com
New Delhi, Apr 28 (PTI) Soon after being deployed off the coast of Seychelles to carry out anti piracy operations, Indian Naval Ship ‘Nirdeshak’ nabbed nine sea-pirates with the help of Spanish and French navies there.
“INS Nirdeshak — a survey ship of the Indian Navy, has arrested nine sea pirates 240 nautical [...]

LeT, JeM, LeJ join hands under ‘Muslim United Army’

From Daily excelsior
Banned terrorist groups in Pakistan’s Punjab province are gaining strength after joining hands on a new platform – Muslim United Army – and have become a serious challenge for the Government which lacks resources to effectively counter their activities.
The banned groups-Lashkar-e-Toiba, Jaish-e-Mohammad and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi – have a common cause under the banner of [...]

Top LTTE leaders ‘Daya Master’, George surrender

From Meritimes.com
IN A major setback to the Tamil Tigers, two top LTTE leaders are reported to have surrendered to the Sri Lankan forces after all escape routes seem to have been plugged for the terrorists, on Wednesday afternoon (April 22).
‘Daya Master’, who reportedly belongs to Prabhakaran’s inner circle and George, gave themselves up to the [...]

G-20 meets tomorrow, India warns against protectionism

From PTI.com by M K Razdan
London, Apr 1 (PTI) Looking for supply of “oxygen of confidence” to the battered global economy, divided leaders of world’s top 20 rich and emerging economies will meet here tomorrow with India calling for a more concerted effort to deal with the crisis and warning that the world would go [...]

Mehsud threat to White House

By Shafqat Ali From The Asian Age
March 31: Pakistan Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud, claiming responsibility for Monday’s terror attack on the police academy in Lahore, on Tuesday threatened to launch an “amazing” strike on Washington, and to blow up the White House, in retaliation for a series of attacks by US military drones in Pakistan’s [...]

Blast kills 1 in Assam, Pranab has close shave

From the Asian age
March 31: A powerful bomb blast at an election rally site in Guwahati, where external affairs minister Pranab Mukherjee was due to speak, killed one person and injured 15 others on Tuesday evening. The police suspects that Ulfa was responsible.
The improvised explosive device, fitted in a TVS motorcycle (AS 14-7924), went off [...]

India’s emerging power makes Chinese Army worried: Pentagon

From DNAindia.com
Washington: India’s emergence as an economic, political and military power has left Chinese army worried, even as the two countries in the recent years have increased their economic and military cooperation, a report released by Pentagon said.
“The PLA (People’s Liberation Army) remains concerned with persistent disputes along China’s shared border with India and the [...]