Behind China’s Silk Road vision: Cheap funds, heavy debt, growing ris...
BEIJING: Behind China’s trillion-dollar effort to build a modern Silk Road is a lending programme of unprecedented breadth, one that will help build ports, roads and rail links, but could also leave some banks and many countries with quite a hangover. At the heart of that splurge are... read more »
AC Put Up At Slain BSF Trooper’s Home, Removed After Yogi’s Visit
The family members of slain BSF head constable Prem Sagar were befuddled when the Deoria district administration installed a window air conditioner, put up a sofa and carpet at their home ahead of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s visit on Friday. They were in for even a greater shock when... read more »
Rohtak Gangrape: Victim’s Head & Face Smashed, Oesophagus Missing
The Haryana Police have arrested two people after a young woman from Haryana’s Sonepat district was allegedly abducted, gangraped and brutally killed by them, police officials said on 13 May. The shocking incident, a cruel reminder of the December 2012 Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case in New... read more »
Kulbhushan Jadhav case: D-Day for India as New Delhi and Islamabad to battl...
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) will be holding public hearings in the Indian national Kulbhushan Jadhav case today. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) was last a battleground for India and Pakistan nearly 18 years ago when Islamabad sought its intervention over the shooting down of... read more »
