While some supporters of the name Bharat say "India" was given by British colonisers, historians say the name predates colonial rule by centuries. India comes from the river Indus, which was called Sindhu in Sanskrit. Travellers from as far away as Greece would ident...
Tensions flared in the region in 2019 after New Delhi stripped Kashmir’s semi-autonomy, scrapped its statehood and removed inherited protections on land and jobs. Authorities have since brought a slew of new laws, which many critics and Kashmiris liken to the beginning of settler colon...
As the post-COVID-19 prospects look promising for India, there's an increasing interest in cross-border trading. However, many e-commerce SMEs in Hong Kong do not have the same resources as large enterprises. When it comes to logistics solutions, such companies stand to benefit from a partn...
… There is an article in the Administrative Programme of the Shensi-Kansu-Ningsia Border Region which stipulates that Communists should co-operate democratically with non-Party people and must not act arbitrarily or keep everything in their own hands. It is directed precisely at the comrades who...
Raksha Bandhan, also called Rakhi, is a traditional festival that celebrates the bond between siblings. Raksha Bandhan means 'to tie a knot of protection' in Sanskrit and comes from the festival's main ceremony in which a sister ties a bracelet on the wrist of her brother for his safety an...
relations appeared to be undergoing still more reassessment when Nepal's prime minister Man Mohan Adhikary visited New Delhi in April 1995 and insisted on a major review of the 1950 peace and friendship treaty which Nepal believed was enabling an ongoing demographic shift in Nepal's Terai region....
Despite setbacks due to the COVID-19 pandemic, India’s potential as a growing market and economic partner proves strong, as evidenced by its astonishing rate of recovery and the keen international interest in investment.
This was India's second attempt to land a spacecraft on the moon and comes less than a week after Russia's Luna-25 mission failed. The south pole — far from the equatorial region targeted by previous missions, including the crewed Apollo landings — is full of craters and deep trench...
In other developments in the Asia-Pacific region: — North Korea has continued to claim a perfect record in keeping out the coronavirus in its latest report to the World Health Organization. At the beginning of the pandemic, North Korea described its efforts to keep out the virus as a “m...
In other developments in the Asia-Pacific region: — China is further easing restrictions on domestic tourism after reporting no new local cases of COVID-19 in nine days. A directive from the Ministry of Culture and Tourism dated Tuesday said tourist sites could allow 50% of their da...