As India and Pakistan both celebrate their 69th anniversary of independence, many voices in India continue to insist that their neighbor is allegedly an artificial state which has no right to even exist. There’s truth to the claim that the UK created the international conditions for the India-Pakistan partition, but domestic problems between Hindus and…
[facebook url=”https://www.facebook.com/RTvids/videos/1279119338764983/” /] CCTV footage shows that the man – identified only as “Matibool” – was struck by the speeding delivery truck at 5:40 am on Wednesday as he was walking home from an overnight shift as a security guard. The impact caused the man to fly through the air and land in a nearby…
The long ignored suffering of the Kashmiri people carries with it the world’s greatest risk of full-scale nuclear war between two long-standing adversaries. Tensions have reemerged in the disputed territory of Kashmir, a Muslim-dominated region that has long been controlled by India, but whose population longs to be reunited with their brethren in Pakistan exacerbating longstanding tensions between the two nuclear powers. Ten…
00:51 21.07.2016(updated 10:17 21.07.2016) With tensions rising between China and India, New Delhi has deployed nearly 100 tanks to its eastern border. The mountainous region of Ladakh, in northern India, lies in a tense location between disputed Kashmir and Tibet. In an effort to boost its military presence in the area, the Indian military has sent Russian-made T-72 tanks to Ladakh’s Chinese…
The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 laid down a US unipolar geo-strategy and toxic, financial globalization, that sowed monstrous inequality at the local/regional/global levels. This was harnessed by mass unemployment and suffocating austerity. Half a century after dangerous period of deregulation under Thatcher and 27 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall,…
Russia is pushing ahead with its project of a “more extensive Eurasian partnership” involving the Eurasian Economic Union, Moscow’s CIS partners as well as China, India, Pakistan and Iran; meanwhile, Beijing and Moscow continue to build a Eurasian economic corridor that will stretch from Shanghai to Berlin. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to Beijing, scheduled…
