Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu has said that Indian military personnel manning the second aviation platform would be withdrawn “within the current month” and reiterated that the......
After steering the Rediff mothership for close to 29 years, Ajit Balakrishnan, founder, chairman and CEO, did what few businessmen in this country do -- R-E-T-I-R-E. On August 2, 2024, we were......
China has suspended a project to install hybrid energy plants in three islands of Sri Lanka, citing "security concern" from a "third party", amid reports of India raising concern over its location.......
Whether it is Sri Lanka, Maldives, or Nepal, quietly but steadily, India has been reclaiming some of the ground it had lost to China, observes Aditi Phadnis. IMAGE: External Affairs Minister Dr......
Bangladesh's anti-corruption body has said it has recovered $1.6 million siphoned off to Singapore by former premier Khaleda Zia's "absconding" younger son Arafat Rahman 'Koko', who was given a......
At the end of October, Sri Lanka President Maithripala Sirisena handed over the deeds for the transfer of 116 hectares in Colombo Port City to China Harbour Engineering Company on a 99-year lease......
Govt has already approached World Bank seeking termination of contract. The progress of the project was just 20 per cent though the contract was awarded in 2016. Amid the India-China faceoff......
Reliance Industries has proposed to develop the Rs 4,500-crore (Rs 45 billion) Deepwater International Container Trans-shipment Terminal at Vizhinjam in Kerala. The company has already submitted a......
After months of dithering, the government has finally denied security clearance to three Chinese firms for operating in the Indian port sector.The three companies-- Hutchison Ports Holdings, Kaidi......
Delay in security clearance for three Chinese firms have become a stumbling block in three different container terminal projects worth Rs 6,000 crore. Hutchison Ports Holdings, which has bid for......