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Topic: Myanmar coup

Why the coup in Myanmar could make your idly, vada, dosa just a bit more expensive

Over the last month, retail urad prices have risen to Rs 130/kg from Rs 117/kg in Mumbai. The Delhi rate has gone up to Rs 123/kg from Rs 100/kg, while in Lucknow it is Rs 145/kg from Rs 113/kg.

Myanmar refugees are like family, can’t ask them to go back: Mizoram MP on MHA order

In interview to ThePrint, MNF Rajya Sabha MP K. Vanlalvena said most Myanmarese share ethnic ties with people of Mizoram, and that Central govt can't be insensitive to their plight.

India is strangely silent about Myanmar’s coup — there are two strategic reasons

India seems to be standing out as a reluctant neighbour with neither the heft nor the intent to play any role in the biggest ongoing crisis in the region.

Myanmar asks Mizoram to handover 8 cops who fled to the state from the coup hit country

A top official of the state's home department has said that 16 people from Myanmar have crossed over to India over the last few days, of which 11 have claimed to be police personnel.

UN gets embroiled in Myanmar crisis as military junta dismisses sanctions

The continuing crisis in Myanmar will be the focus of a closed-door Security Council meeting on Friday, and will be an early leadership test for US Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield.

Myanmar court charges Suu Kyi with incitement as anti-coup protests soar

Suu Kyi is already facing 6 years in prison on charges of illegally importing walkie-talkies & for breaching the Natural Disaster Management Law.

Myanmar’s deadliest day since military coup leaves at least 18 protesters dead

Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators have ignored bans on public gatherings, leading to occasional clashes with security forces that has left a handful of protesters dead.

‘I could be next’ — US-returned entrepreneur fears for his life in Myanmar anti-coup protests

Thaw Zin, founder of a Yangon start-up, says Myanmar military is using criminals to incite violence and sow unrest to justify use of force against anti-coup protesters.

‘Three-finger’ salute to Myanmar & Boris Johnson’s new mantra to lift lockdown in UK

The best international cartoons of the week, chosen by editors at ThePrint.

Myanmar protester, shot in head by police last week, dies

Mya Thwet Thwet Khine had been on life support with what doctors had said was no chance of recovery. The woman is the first confirmed death among protesters.

On Camera

Show me a bigger irony than those who garland rapists hailing Iran’s Ahoo Daryaei as a ‘hero’

A daring stunt, emanating from insult and frustration, immediately became a reason for entertainment, political jibes, and Islamophobia.

How Adani halving power supply to Bangladesh could land the country in ‘dire straits’

Bangladesh is already reeling from low coal-fired power production & inability to import enough coal, gas. Now, Adani has cut supplies over unpaid dues. However, this could hurt Adani too.

India, Bangladesh Army chiefs discuss issues of ‘mutual interest’

Video call between two Army heads is their first interaction after political upheaval in Bangladesh forced former prime minister Sheikh Hasina to flee to India in August.

Xi wanted to teach India about imbalance of power. We should take a budgetary lesson from it

While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.