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 »
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 »
10 gunned down near China ‘Belt and Road’ projects in Pakistan
HIGHLIGHTS The attack on the Pakistani labourers took place some 20 kilometres from the emerging port city of Gwadar Gwadar’s deep-water port is the exit point for a planned route from China’s far-western Xinjiang region to the Arabian Sea. QUETTA: Ten labourers were gunned down in... read more »
South Korea demands apology as talks drag on with North over tensions
Seoul, South Korea (CNN)South Korean President Park-geun hye said Monday that she’s still waiting for an apology from North Korea as marathon talks between the two sides over a recent... read more »
Explosion at U.S. Army base outside Tokyo lights up night sky
Multiple explosions and a large fire at a U.S. Army depot lit up the night sky in a Tokyo suburb early Monday. No injuries were reported. The blast happened after midnight at the Sagami... read more »
Palmyra’s Baalshamin temple ‘blown up by IS’
Islamic State militants have destroyed Palmyra’s ancient temple of Baalshamin, Syrian officials and activists say. Syria’s head of antiquities was quoted as saying the temple... read more »
Sensex Tanks Over 1,200 Points in 3rd Biggest Crash in History:
The Sensex crashed 1,210 points to 26,155 at its day’s low, while the 50-share Nifty slipped below the crucial 8,000 levels for the first time in two months. All 50 shares in the... read more »
North Korean troops ordered onto war footing by Kim Jong-un
Korea Central News Agency has issued a lengthy rant about South Korean “puppet war maniacs,” Julian Ryall in Tokyo writes. The statement warns the South Korean military to act with... read more »
