Edit in Pakistan Today,Nov 7, 2023They’re not going back where they came from. As you read this, hundreds of thousands of human beings who have never even seen Afghanistan are being sent to the country of their ethnic origin. Brace yourselves as news of one of the largest cases of forced migration on the planet unfolds, because sad stories abound. We are not merely talking about the political activists, artists and people associated with the…
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report in Daily Times, Nov 5, 2023The Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Saturday issued a written order granting permission to the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) to hold rallies and conduct their election campaign in accordance with the law of the land. The court in its verdict asserted that no political party was denied its right to actively participate in the electoral process, a private TV channel reported. The PHC has also directed the caretaker provincial government…
by Sohel Parvez in The Daily Star, Aug 27, 2023Land use for rice cultivation in Bangladesh is likely to decline in marketing year (MY) 2023-24, which began on May, forecasted the US Department of Agriculture at the end of last week. The late arrival of monsoon rains and a heatwave during the Aus season may result in rice cultivation area being 1.7 percent lower to 1.16 crore (one crore = 10 million) hectares of land…
By Sulochana Ramiah Mohan in Ceylon Today, Aug 23, 2023State Minister for Ports and Aviation Premalal Jayasekara yesterday (23) alleged that the Ministry of Ports and Shipping, under Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva, had leased 13 acres within the Colombo Port to China’s CM Port to construct South Asia’s biggest logistic centre, without calling for tenders, procurement or government evaluation of the land. The CM Port also runs the Colombo International Container Terminal (CICT) and…
by Prithvi Man Shrestha & Anup Ojha in The Kathmandu Post, Aug 23, 2023Police on Tuesday recommended prosecuting 238 people including former ministers, senior bureaucrats and middlemen in the infamous Lalita Niwas land grab scam on charges of organised crime and forgery of government documents. The Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) of Nepal Police submitted its investigation report to the District Attorney’s Office Kathmandu, which will now decide how many of them will be prosecuted. The…
by Prithvi Man Shrestha in The Kathmandu Post, Aug 22, 2023The government is apparently not ready to prosecute former prime ministers Madhav Kumar Nepal and Baburam Bhattarai over their roles in the Lalita Niwas land scam. The government was forced to record their statements after the Supreme Court on August 6 ordered an investigation into those involved in making decisions related to the transfer of land of Lalita Niwas, Baluwatar in the name of private…
by Kelum Bandara in Daily Mirror, 22 July 2023 Indian Foreign Secretary Vinay Mohan Kwatra said land connectivity between India and Sri Lanka was proposed by Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe. The President came up with the same proposal for the construction of a bridge between the two countries when he was the Prime Minister between 2002 and 2004. Making his remarks at a press conference in New Delhi, the Indian Foreign Secretary said that…
By Asiri Fernando in The Morning, Apr 16, 2023A controversial allegation made by Tamil National Alliance (TNA) Jaffna District MP Sivagnanam Shritharan that hundreds of acres of land from the north were being handed over to China as part of Sri Lanka’s debt restructuring process was yesterday (15) rubbished by Secretary to the President Saman Ekanayake. Shritharan on Thursday (13) made the controversial statement at a press conference held in Kilinochchi, claiming that the TNA…