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Dec 1, 2023 | 
asianaffairs.co.uk | London Kreatives
Indian rescuers havefreed 41 men trapped in a collapsed road tunnel, following a marathon 17-day operation.The labourersbecame stuck when a portion of the under-construction tunnel in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand collapsed on Nov.
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Dec 1, 2023 | 
asianaffairs.co.uk | London Kreatives
With a general election looming for Bangladesh, ABM Nasir considers how aggression and the dissemination of disinformation have formed a volatile, and vulnerable, political landscape Violence and disinformation are anti-democratic, anti-competitive, anti-peace and destabilising in a number of crucial ways – socially, economically and politically. Both violence and disinformation have formed part of Bangladesh’s political process since independence.
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Dec 1, 2023 | 
asianaffairs.co.uk | London Kreatives |M J Akbar
MJ Akbar offers some notes from a big, fat, festive wedding in Ahmedabad – with the wrong bridegroom 07:10AM. NOVEMBER 19. ANTICIPATION. High Fashion has come down for breakfast, the most necessary meal in Jetlagland. The restaurant shop is host to excited NRIs, mainly from America, couples who have carefully planned their holiday to sync with the Diwali and cricket festivals.
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Dec 1, 2023 | 
asianaffairs.co.uk | London Kreatives
J’ACCUSE: Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian suggested the US might have brought the coronavirus to China
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Dec 1, 2023 | 
asianaffairs.co.uk | London Kreatives
Sir,Tanya Vatsa’s excellent article on the Israel-Gaza conflict (‘A homeland lost, a homeland found’, November edition) called to mind so many issues relating to this seemingly insurmountable problem and tragedy. Now more than ever, the longstanding conflict between Israel and Palestine has pitted the West against the Arab world as well as pro-Jewish against pro-Palestinian communities.
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Dec 1, 2023 | 
asianaffairs.co.uk | London Kreatives |Amit Agnihotri
The US should beware of a two-front war in the Korean Peninsula and the Taiwan Strait, warns Amit Agnihotri,a sits involvement in the Russia-Ukraine and Israel-Hamas conflicts are depleting resources America has tried to reset its bilateral relationship with China but Washington needs to be cautious over the threat of a two-front war in the Korean Peninsula and the Taiwan Strait even as it remains involved in the Ukraine and Gaza wars.
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Dec 1, 2023 | 
asianaffairs.co.uk | London Kreatives |Tanya Vatsa
Amid a raft of bloody global conflicts, Tanya Vatsa critiques the inefficacy of the UN and addresses the urgent need to expand membership and revive unity within the organisation The humanitarian aftermath of the Second World War prompted major world powers to create a supranational organisation to mitigate the suffering of mankind and ensure that such lethal devastation was not repeated.
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Dec 1, 2023 | 
asianaffairs.co.uk | London Kreatives |Yvonne Gill
The Maldives’ newly elected President faces an uphill struggle, writes, Yvonne Gill as discord is already brewing and his pro-China, anti-India agenda may provedifficult to implement Mohamed Muizzu, the newly-elected Maldivian President, rode to power on an agenda that may appear to be related to the country’s foreign policy, an aggressive ‘India Out’ rhetoric.
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Dec 1, 2023 | 
asianaffairs.co.uk | London Kreatives
Two global markers have emerged from the wars in Europe and the Middle East. Ukraine flagged up Russian supply chain security, specifically with food and energy. With China, security, clothes, phones and other day-to-day paraphernalia are equally applicable. Then came Israel-Gaza,which underlined the degree to which current world order institutions are broken and in urgent need of repair. What, though, is the way forward and which beacons should we be following?
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Nov 1, 2023 | 
asianaffairs.co.uk | London Kreatives
The Taliban’s invitation to, and attendance of, China’s October 18th Belt and Road Forum in Beijing, which marked the BRI’s tenth anniversary, has underscored Beijing’s growing official ties with the administration, despite its lack of formal recognition by any world government. Taliban officials and ministers have at times travelled to regional meetings, mostly those focused on Afghanistan, but this is the highest profile multilateral meeting since the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan in 2021.
