Fresh violence in Manipur has claimed at least four lives in two separate incidents, triggering angry protests in Imphal and bringing normal activities in parts of the city to a near standstill. Protesters carried the bodies of two victims to the high-security residence of Chief Minister Y Khemchand Singh, demanding immediate action over the killings.
The US and India are close to sealing a trade deal, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said, as the two sides work to wrap up months of negotiations. Speaking to reporters in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, during a diplomatic tour of Central Asia, Rubio stated that Washington and New Delhi are actively working to resolve the
DA Editorial desk | Dhruba Deka In a year when a war in the Middle East has pushed oil above 100 dollars a barrel and shaken economies from Europe to East Asia, India has done something that deserves acknowledgement: it has kept growing, and growing fast. When the International Monetary Fund released its October World
Tripura has just passed one electoral test and faces another within weeks. Counting in the village committee polls of the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council on 5 October delivered a commanding result for the ruling TIPRA Motha, which had won 2,803 of the 3,470 seats declared by the evening, about 80 percent. The BJP
DA Editorial Desk| dhruba deka The arrest on 17 October of six surrendered militants from the NLFT and the ATTF, after they allegedly blocked a national highway in West Tripura demanding proper rehabilitation, is a symptom of something larger than a traffic disruption. In a separate blockade at Baramura, reports say it ended with former
Hundreds of thousands of people marched across France on Saturday, 17 October, in demonstrations that began peacefully but were marred in several cities by arson, looting and clashes with police. The interior ministry put turnout at about 550,000, including around 110,000 in Paris, while the CGT union claimed 800,000. The unrest was severe. A tourist
Top Pentagon officials plan to delay an internal report on the bombing of a school in southern Iran until after the US midterm elections at the earliest, Bloomberg reported, according to the Democracy Now headlines of 16 October. The attack killed at least 156 people, including 120 children. I could only confirm this through that
India is among the economies that joined a US-led statement on 7 October committing to tackle excess industrial capacity, a move aimed largely at China. The Office of the US Trade Representative said 14 economies reached the agreement, with the European Union also supporting it. Countries named in reports include Argentina, Australia, Canada, France, Germany,
Young protesters have taken to the streets of New Delhi to demand the resignation of Election Commission chief Gyanesh Kumar over alleged irregularities in a large-scale revision of India’s voter lists. On 3 October, the second straight day of demonstrations, police detained protesters near Jantar Mantar, the designated protest site, which was sealed off. AFP
DA Editorial Team For three days this week, student-led protests turned violent in Tirana, and parliament cancelled a scheduled session. Violence is never the answer, and Albanian authorities are entitled to keep order. But the question behind the protests deserves a better answer than a cancelled sitting. Who decides what happens to a country’s coastline?
