India’s proactive role sought to resolve Rohingya crisis
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30th April, 2021 06:32:19
Bangladesh Institute of Peace and Security Studies (BIPSS) President Maj Gen (retd) ANM Muniruzzaman has sought a more proactive role from India in resolving the Rohingya crisis.
“We need a more proactive role from India in solving the Rohingya crisis,” he said while speaking at a symposium titled ‘Bangladesh-India Relations: Prognosis for the Future’ which premiered on Facebook on Thursday night.
Renowned scholar-diplomat and adviser on foreign affairs to the last caretaker government Dr Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury chaired the event hosted by the Cosmos Foundation, a philanthropic arm of the Cosmos Group.
A politician named after murderous Russian dictator Joseph Stalin is poised to win power in Indian state elections on Friday.
Exit polls suggested M.K. Stalin s Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) party would win the elections across Tamil Nadu in southern India by a big margin.
The party s chief was named after Stalin in a tribute to the communist dictator by his father M. Karunanidhi, a left-wing four-time chief minister of the state.
MK Stalin, a politician named after murderous Russian dictator Joseph Stalin, was poised to win power in an Indian state on Friday
Born just days before his namesake died in 1953, the Indian Stalin - a committed democrat - admitted in a 2019 newspaper interview that his name had caused some awkward moments in Russia.
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May 03, 2021
U.S. To Restrict Travel From India Amid COVID-19 Surge
The travel restrictions are set to begin on May 4 to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
Zeke Miller and Darlene Superville
WASHINGTON (AP) The U.S. will restrict travel from India starting on May 4, the White House said Friday, citing a devastating rise in COVID-19 cases in the country and the emergence of potentially dangerous variants of the coronavirus.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki said President Joe Biden’s administration made the determination on the advice of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“The policy will be implemented in light of extraordinarily high COVID-19 caseloads and multiple variants circulating in the India,” she said.
US to restrict travel from India amid devastating rise in COVID infections Published April 30
People wait to receive COVID-19 vaccine in Mumbai, India, Thursday, April 29, 2021. India set another global record in new virus cases Thursday, as millions of people in one state cast votes despite rising infections and the country geared up to open its vaccination rollout to all adults amid snags. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)
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Print article WASHINGTON The U.S. will restrict travel from India starting May 4, the White House said Friday, citing a devastating rise in COVID-19 cases in the country and the emergence of potentially dangerous variants of the coronavirus.
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