Iran arrests 19 Afghans in Taliban flag row
Authorities sent 5 Afghans to prison, while other 14 will be expelled
Syed Zafar Mehdi
04.08.2020
TEHRAN (AA) – Iran has arrested 19 Afghan nationals for waving a Taliban flag in Tehran in celebration of the Eid al-Adha festival, the city’s police...
@Bengal71
A recent article on U.S. presence in Afghanistan.
Trump suggests U.S. troop levels in Afghanistan could be cut in half by Election Day
Leo Shane III
1 hour ago
President Donald Trump said he expects U.S. troop numbers in Afghanistan to be under 5,000 by election day in November...
New York's Times Square lights up for Kashmir
Billboards display messages of Kashmir liberation movement as world marks a year to siege in Himalayan valley
August 03, 2020
As the Indian siege of Kashmir is set to enter a second year, billboards at New York city's iconic Times Square lit up in...
Afghan elders to decide fate of 400 Taliban inmates
On heels of 3-day Eid ceasefire, troubled Afghan peace parlay hinges on sluggish prison swap
Shadi Khan Saif
04.08.2020
KABUL, Afghanistan
The Afghan government on Monday decided to hold a grand consultative "Loya Jirga" on the fate of...
Pakistan set to revamp Kapoor Haveli
Building in downtown Peshawar will be turned into heritage museum, claims provincial information minister
August 04, 2020
Widely known as the city of flowers, Peshawar, the provincial capital of Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province...
Trump Signs Executive Order to Ban Federal Agencies From Hiring Foreign Workers Over Americans
04.08.2020
The order comes after Trump suspended the issuance of H-1B and several other types of temporary worker visas until the end of the year amid the pandemic in the country.
US President...
Ladakh standoff: DRDO weighs options to make indigenous light tanks
Ajai Shukla
August 3, 2020
The ministry of defence (MoD) last month fast-tracked the emergency purchase of light tanks to counter possible attacks by over 20,000 Chinese troops poised on the Ladakh border along with tanks...
Pakistan says mediation between Saudi and Iran going slowly
AUGUST 3, 2020
DUBAI (Reuters) - Pakistan’s U.S.-requested mediation efforts between Gulf rivals Saudi Arabia and Iran have been making slow progress, Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Monday.
Prompted by Washington, former cricket...
I know.
But what is India's soft power in the world?
Bollywood.
And what would you say of that when Urdu is used for a vulgar Bollywood film, the consequence of that will be that it is associated with vulgarity?
Do you think that around the world people will then think of Urdu as a language...
EXCLUSIVE:‘Talks between India, Pakistan, China vital for peace in Kashmir’
In an exclusive interview, former Indian mediator Ansari says new domicile law is on Israeli pattern to disturb demography
03.08.2020
NEW DELHI
Former Indian government interlocutor Mohammad Mukhtar Ansari (MM...
You do not seem to understand what I meant.
Let me repeat it in another way.
If Urdu is the best language in South Asia, why is it still used for the vulgar Bollywood movies of today?
You are not making any sense.
Because if Urdu is a language that has grace, then it should not be used for Bollywood movies which are anything but graceful.
Analysis: How Iran reaped the rewards of Saddam’s 1990 Kuwait invasion
BARIA ALAMUDDIN
August 02, 2020
LONDON: Thirty years on, we continue to endure the catastrophic reverberations of the 1990 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. This act set in motion events that would unleash a three-headed hydra of...
I see what you mean.
I have found an older article / study (published in Science, september 2019) which I posted a number of months ago and that is related to the original post and what you said. It might be of interest to you...
DEFENDING TOMORROW
The climate crisis and threats against land and environmental defenders
July 2020
About the report
For years, land and environmental defenders have been the first line of defence against the causes and impacts of climate breakdown. Time after time, they have challenged...
Yes I am actually.
I find history in general interesting, especially when it concerns civilisations (how they originated, developed and ended, but also how the people lived, communicated and interacted with eachother and other civilisations of their time etc).
Why Sanskrit has strong links to European languages and what it learnt in India
Newer scholarship has shown that even though Sanskrit did indeed share a common ancestral homeland with European and Iranian languages, it had also borrowed quite a bit from pre-existing Indian languages in India...