Region - South Asia Monitor
WEBJun 04, 2022. Significantly, the country’s IT exports are rising and has already crossed over $2 billion in the first eight months of the current financial year. In 2021, the Overseas Investor Chamber of Commerce and Industry (OICCI) said in its report that the country had the potential of $10 billion in annual IT exports.
A security crisis looms in Bangladesh's Chittagong Hill Tracts: …
WEBApr 13, 2024 · This article is really unmitigated nonsense from start to finish. To take a few (of many) points; - far from demonstrating professionalism the Bangladesh army has engaged in numerous well-documented massacres, extrajudicial killings and torture and has nearly always supported settler violence against the indigenous tribal people of the CHT.
Port City Colombo: Harnessing Sri Lanka's strategic location to fast ...
WEBMay 22, 2021 · About Us. In order to create a more credible and empathetic knowledge bank on the South Asian region, SPS curates the South Asia Monitor (www.southasiamonitor.org), an independent web journal and online resource dealing with strategic, political, security, cultural and economic issues about, pertaining to and of consequence to South Asia and the Indo-Pacific region.
Chronic water scarcity in South Asia increasing children’s ...
WEBDec 7, 2023 · In 2022, an overwhelming 45 million children lacked access to basic drinking water services in South Asia, according to UNICEF. The main reasons for water scarcity in South Asia are poverty and power inequalities. Millions of families in South Asia do not have a dedicated tap water line. In 2018, India had a vision to reach out to 90 per cent ...
News - South Asia Monitor
WEBAbout Us. In order to create a more credible and empathetic knowledge bank on the South Asian region, SPS curates the South Asia Monitor (www.southasiamonitor.org), an independent web journal and online resource dealing with strategic, political, security, cultural and economic issues about, pertaining to and of consequence to South Asia and the Indo-Pacific region.
Indian cultural diplomacy - and creation of a South Asian identity
WEBAug 12, 2022 · By Amb Sarvajit Chakravarti (retd) Aug 12, 2022. Indian cultural diplomacy. Cultural diplomacy, exchange and toleration of diversity will be a long-term but effective strategy to maintain a strong bulwark against the rising tide of polarizing religiosity and radicalism that is sweeping across the SAARC (South Asian Association for Regional ...
Perspective - South Asia Monitor
WEBAug 29, 2024. When the world descended on Afghanistan in 2001, Afghans believed it was about them, about a better life for them. It never was. It never is, writes senior reporter Kathy Gannon, who has covered Afghanistan since the 1980s. Looking back at the second Taliban takeover in 2021 she looks at why the ironically named ‘Operation ...
Sri Lanka's Aragalaya protests demonstrated nested sovereignty
WEBMay 1, 2024 · First, the Sri Lankan demonstrators resisted the expansion of Rajapakse's nepotistic regime. Second, there was a presence of nested sovereignty throughout the protests in 2022. Two arguments from Nasser Abufarha’s book ‘The Making of a Human Bomb: An Ethnography of Palestinian Resistance (2009) and Audra Simpson’s book Mohawk Interruptus ...
‘Begum Para' in Canada: ACC seeks a list of Bangladeshi who …
WEBNov 24, 2020 · The Anti-Corruption Commission asked the government to provide a list of its officials who own homes in "Begum Para" of Toronto, Canada. "We're looking into the matter and sought a list from the government," ACC Secretary Dilwar Bakth told reporters yesterday at his office in the capital's Segunbagicha.
Diplomacy and the global North-South divide: Need to redefine …
WEBJun 1, 2023 · An alternate strategy for overcoming the North-South divide and altering power dynamics is South-South collaboration. South-South collaboration disproves the idea that knowledge and progress only travel from North to South, giving developing nations the chance to establish their autonomy and create their own narratives.