Foreign minister S Jaishankar co-chaired 12th meet of Mekong Ganga Cooperation, initiative by 6 nations focusing on cooperation in tourism, culture, education, transport & communications.
Suu Kyi was convicted of more than a dozen crimes, including incitement, electoral fraud, corruption, and state secrets violations, in trials dismissed around the world as a sham.
The jumbo was gifted to Sri Lanka in 2001 and carried Buddhist relics in processions until last November when he was moved to a zoo after complaints from animal welfare activists.
Myanmar has been barred for two years from ASEAN meetings for failing to start talks with ousted Aung San Suu Kyi government. Only Cambodia has confirmed its presence at Sunday's informal meet.
The progressive Move Forward party is pushing to form the next govt after winning the most seats in a 14 May general election that saw voters clearly rejecting military-linked parties.
The 2020 demonstrations that started as opposition to the military's domination of politics following a 2014 coup and a disputed poll 5 years later, broke ground in Thailand by questioning the supremacy of the monarchy.
HTMS Sukhothai suffered an engine malfunction & sank in the Gulf of Thailand Sunday. 73 of 106 aboard were rescued in an overnight mission while remaining 33 were forced to abandon ship.
This win over Thailand takes the women's team to their eighth straight Asia Cup final -- four each in ODI & T20 formats. India play Sri Lanka in the final on Saturday.
An ex-cop had been in court earlier in the day and then gone to the daycare centre to collect his child. Police said he began the killing spree when he didn't find his child there.
The conventional wisdom is that if a govt fails to improve the lot of the voters, it is punished. Kumar presided over an economic disaster for 20 years and was re-elected by a landslide.
Indian govt officials last month skipped Turkish National Day celebrations in Delhi, in a message to Ankara following its support for Islamabad, particularly during Operation Sindoor.
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.
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