By Mujtoba Ahmed Murshed The writer is an analyst, researcher, and journalist. He has served in Japan and Germany’s foreign ministries and worked as the Advisor at the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC). DHAKA, Bangladesh | 14 March 2025 (IDN) — In the aftermath of Bangladesh’s political transition on […]
Why South Asian Militaries Need to Reduce Their Carbon Footprint
By Mahmud Hussain* DHAKA, Bangladesh | 12 March 2025 (IDN) — Militaries, which are among the biggest consumers of fuel, account for 5.5 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions. If the world’s militaries were a country, they would have the fourth-highest carbon footprint China, the USA and India. The US Air Force’s F-35 fighter […]
India: Buddhist Administration of Mahabodhi Temple Will Lend Credence to ‘Buddhist’ Diplomacy
Viewpoint by Bhikkhu Sanghasena* LEH, Ladakh, India | 8 March 2025 (IDN) — The ongoing debates surrounding the management of the most sacred place for the Buddhist world, the Mahabodhi Temple in Bodh Gaya, underscore a deeper issue of religious representation and governance in multi-religious India, as the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi promotes […]
National Youth Council of Pakistan: By the Youth, for the Youth
By Bisma Qamar* NEW YORK | ISLAMABAD | 8 March 2025 (IDN) — “The world belongs to those bold enough to shape it. No matter how uncertain the path, progress lies in perseverance. There is a thin line between doing wonders and remaining stagnant, it’s the courage to dream that turns possibilities into reality. Youth […]
Development From Within – Indian University Redefines Development Communication
By Kalinga Seneviratne SHANTINIKETAN, India | 6 March 2025 (IDN) — In the immediate aftermath of the decolonisation process in the 1960s and 1970s, led by Western scholars, development communication was seen as a top-down process where communication could be used to educate the peasants to wean them away from subsistence farming and other livelihoods […]
Deporting Irregular Indian Immigrants from The US Will Have Blowback
By Samata Biswas* KOLKATA. India | 24 February 2025 (IDN) — In January 2022, four members of a family, from the western Indian state of Gujarat, froze to death at the US-Canada border. The couple and their two children had paid a hefty amount to traffickers to be smuggled into the US for what they […]
Importance of the Indian Navy Frigate’s Visit to South Africa
By Guy Martin* The premier online African defence and security news publication defenceWeb issued this article. It is being republished with their permission. JOHANNESBURG, South Africa | 10 February 2025 (IDN) — The Indian Navy’s latest guided missile stealth frigate, INS Tushil, recenrly called in South Africa while on her maiden voyage home from Russia. […]
Sri Lanka: Facades of Independence and Masks of Conquest
Of ‘GLADIO’ Operations, Raj Nostalgia History and Literary Festivals By Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake* COLOMBO, Sri Lanka | 3 February 2025 (IDN) — Independence has been a long mirage in geostrategic Ceylon / Sri Lanka, where history seems to repeat itself as tragedy and farce in equal measure. This week, the geostrategic Indian Ocean island is set […]
Why the World Needs to Listen to Mahatma Gandhi More Than Ever
By Sachin Pilot The writer is former Union Minister of Corporate Affairs and current president of Rajasthan a Congress Committee in the Indian State of Rajasthan. TONK, Rajasthan, India | 31 January 2025 (IDN) — Why should we remember Mahatma Gandhi 77 years after he was assassinated? Because more than ever, his legacy is of […]
India Takes Yet Another Step Toward Sending Humans to the Moon
By Devinder Kumar* NEW DELHI | 17 January 2025 (IDN) — The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)—which has been working on key technologies to realise its vision of setting up a space station by 2035 and sending humans to the Moon by 2040—on January 16 morning successfully demonstrated space docking, or the joining of two […]