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Dec 4, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Ben McGrath |Pranjal Pandey |Dae-Han Song |Neeraj Jain
South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol yesterday launched what was tantamount to a military coup. On national television at about 10.25 p.m., he announced a martial law decree, banning strikes, protests and all political activity and imposed blanket censorship. After facing immediate protests and opposition in the National Assembly, Yoon announced around 4:30 a.m. today that he would lift martial law and that troops dispatched to enforce the decree had been withdrawn.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
htsyndication.com | Pranjal Pandey
India, Dec. 3 -- The Himalayas are unique in that they possess almost equal amounts of ecological as well as cultural and emotional significance. They have long served as a muse to multiple colonies of artists across time and space. Even the illustrious Nicholas Roerich, the only foreign Navratna, was deeply fond of the range and his expedition across the Himalayas turned out to be one of the most transformative experiences of his artistic career.
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Sep 21, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Darini Rajaisngham-Senanayake |Ana Pararajasingham |Nafees Ahmad |Pranjal Pandey
In the run up to elections the post-Marxist National People’s Party (NPP), has run a high-gloss, foreign-funded, election campaign to market its policies as a ‘new dawn’. Remarkably, the NPP and rival political parties alike had ignored wider geopolitical developments that may contribute to such a dawn given the globally networked nature of Sri Lanka’s ‘poly crisis’.
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Darini Rajaisngham-Senanayake |Ana Pararajasingham |Nafees Ahmad |Pranjal Pandey
In the run up to elections President Ranil Wickramasinghe has portrayed his government’s Debt Sustainability Agreement (DSA) with the International Monetary Fund as a panacea for Sri Lanka’s globally networked ‘polycrisis’. Minister of Finance, Shehan Semasinghe, meanwhile, claimed that ‘there is no alternative’ (TINA) to the lender of last resorts, the IMF. Amending the agreement as called for by some opposition parties would cause heavy losses to the country and amount to ‘suicide’ he noted.
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Aug 17, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Sagar Dhara |Pranjal Pandey |Ankit Kumar |Vidyarthy Chatterjee
Changing relationships with the Maldives have come as India’s Independence Day gift in the face of perceived Chinese dominance in the island nation following a rupture on the eve of Prime Minister Modi’s visit to Lakshadweep in the beginning of this year. The irks in bilateral ties had placed Modi’s Neighborhood First Policy in jeopardy. However, India’s relations with the Maldives have moved through quick highs and lows in recent years.
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Aug 15, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Sagar Dhara |Pranjal Pandey |Ankit Kumar |Bharat Dogra
On 5 August Sheikh Hasinaof Bangladesh resigned from the post of prime minister and went to India. The next day the parliament was dissolved. On 8 August the interim government headed by Nobel laureate Dr Muhammad Yunus (aged 84) was formed.Requested to reurn from Paris Olympics,even before it closed, he did so on Aug 8.
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Aug 15, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Akbar E. Torbat |Pranjal Pandey |Phil Pasquini |Bob Dreyfuss
On May 19, 2024, Iran’s President, Ebrahim Raisi, met the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, at the Giz Galasi Dam along the two countries’ borders to inaugurate the hydroelectric complex there. In his return en route to Tabriz, the helicopter carrying Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, and other companions crashed.
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Aug 13, 2024 | 
htsyndication.com | Pranjal Pandey
India, Aug. 14 -- It would be extremely difficult to locate a species of animal, in the Indian Subcontinent, that holds equal degrees of ecological and cultural importance, as the elephant. Their intelligence and high capacity to follow instruction have made them especially useful since ancient times. Elephants have been shown to exhibit traits that are similar to more advanced species of mammals such as apes, humans and dolphins.
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Aug 13, 2024 | 
dailypioneer.com | Pranjal Pandey
It would be extremely difficult to locate a species of animal, in the Indian Subcontinent, that holds equal degrees of ecological and cultural importance, as the elephant. Their intelligence and high capacity to follow instruction have made them especially useful since ancient times. Elephants have been shown to exhibit traits that are similar to more advanced species of mammals such as apes, humans and dolphins.
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Jul 22, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Akbar E. Torbat |Pranjal Pandey |Phil Pasquini |Bob Dreyfuss
The low turnout in the past presidential and parliamentary elections warned the clerics in Tehran that their political base has substantially shrunk. To deal with this problem, they passed Masoud Pezeshkian through the screening process of the Guardian Council to run for the presidency. They hoped to increase participation from the reformists and the ethnic population. Pezeshkian speaks Azari and Kurdish languages, in addition to Persian, which would increase participation.
