Guwahati: Polling begins in the Himalayan nation of Nepal to elect a new Parliament in Kathmandu amid tight security cover where nearly 19 million Nepali electorates are eligible for voting. Erected 23,112 polling centres under 10,963 polling stations in all 77 districts of the south Asian nation were ready to start the exercise at 7…
When Nepal goes for national polls on Thursday, political observers across the Asian region are looking for Pushpa Kamal Dahal (popularly known as Prachanda), who led a decade long anti-monarchy Maoist movement in the Hindu majority Himalayan nation that dethroned the last king Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev in 2006. Within the next two years,…
The landlocked Himalayan nation Nepal prepares for its ninth national election on 5 March, which was necessitated with the collapse of its government in Kathmandu during September last year following an anti-corruption mass uprising, which was initiated by the young people and resulted in the killing of dozens of agitators and injuring hundreds other. The…
Even all political parties, not to speak of millions of fans and well-wishers of Assam’s revered cultural icon Zubeen Garg, continue preaching for sparing the maverick singer’s name in doing politics, his mysterious death last year in a foreign land may dominate the electoral politics in the forthcoming legislative polls. Indications surface that Assam assembly…
As Bangladesh has lately conducted a national election to get its government in Dhaka, the people of eastern India will only hope for a progressive nation with political stability and economic development. The Muslim majority nation of over 170 million people continues to become a headache for north-eastern states, precisely Assam, for several reasons ranging…
After meticulous preparations for a free & fair election, which turned into reality with a festive electoral exercise, Bangladesh went to polls on 12 February, where the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP, led by Tarique Rahman) established a landslide victory. One of the oldest political parties in the south Asian nation, the BNP won over 200…
Amid high security arrangements across the country, polling begins this morning at 7:30 am for the highly projected 13th Jatiya Sansad election in Bangladesh, where over 2000 candidates representing 50 political parties along with many independent contestants are in the fray. The Muslim majority nation has over 12.77 crore registered voters including 6.27 crore women…
Bangladesh, a Muslim majority nation of over 170 million people, goes for general election on 12 February 2026 to elect its 13th Jatiya Sansad in Dhaka. According to the Bangladesh Election Commission altogether 127,612,384 registered electorates (including 62,850,772 women and 1,230 transgender voters) are eligible for polling where over 4.5 million are newly registered young…
Guwahati: Amid all chaos, where the ethnic armed groups continue offensives against the ruling Myanmar military junta across the Buddhist majority country, the Sanatani Hindus celebrated 75th Maha Ramayana Harinama Ram chanting festival in Rakhine/Arakan province in western border of the southeast Asian nation. The four-day festival, held in Maungdaw locality with the participation of…
The conservation history of wildlife in Assam achieved another milestone last year with no-poaching of precious one-horned rhinoceros (also known as rhinoceros unicorns) in all forest reserves thanks to hard laws, efficient forest staff supported by Assam police and increased public awareness in the last few years. In fact, the State in eastern India, realized…
