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On the eve of the fourth anniversary of the military coup in Myanmar, the ruling junta has floated the proposal to hold the national elections to form a new government in the country which is witnessing civil war between the junta and the forces of democracy for the last four years.

Nepal has decided to hike the permit fees to climb Mount Everest. It will certainly boost Nepal's revenues. Yet it raises the question about the ethics of commercialisation of scaling one of the world's most revered natural wonders. Issues pertaining to sustainability and overcrowding come up in the wake of the decision of increasing the permit fees. It has been upped from $11,000 to $15,000 during peak season. For Nepal, the economic stakes are significant.

The Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has brought down the market crashing, but it has done even more damaging things to the United States. Apart from challenging Silicon Valley’s technology dominance, the Chinese have exposed the limits of Trump’s tariffs, challenging Washington’s ability to restrain China’s technological advance.

LONDON: History may have been made this week when, for the first time, a Chinese technological development had the effect of wiping at least a trillion dollars off corporate values on the US stock market.

The U.S. President Donald Trump has intensified his attacks against the left wing regimes of Latin America as a part of the MAGA programme to weaken the Left in the region and bolster the far right forces which have been emboldened as a result of the coming of the Trump regime for the second time.

Germany is witnessing heated campaign by the political parties contesting the national elections scheduled for February 23. The poll excitement has reached a high pitch as the far right AFD held a rally on Saturday with participation of Trump acolyte Elon Musk who is spearheading the fight in Europe to destabilise the anti-Right democratic regimes. The world’s richest person through video interaction called upon the German people to bring to power the AFD which only represents the interests of the German people.

In 1971, Bangladesh emerged as an independent nation, scarred by Pakistan’s brutal military crackdown—a conflict that claimed millions of lives. Over five decades later, Pakistan’s attempts to influence South Asia remain persistent, with its recent overtures towards Dhaka raising eyebrows. However, Islamabad’s legacy of unstable alliances, opportunistic partnerships, and internal mismanagement offers a stark warning for Bangladesh. Pakistan’s troubled relationships with Afghanistan, China, and the United States serve as cautionary tales, revealing why a closer partnership with Islamabad could imperil Dhaka’s progress.

United States President Donald J. Trump is in that stage of his life where he must be asking himself, “If not me, who? If not now, when?” And Trump has a powerful platform to get things he wants done, make good the promises he made, which catapulted him to power, for a second time after a gap of four years and much maligning coming his way during those four years on a Florida golf course.

It seems as if finally, the three years old Russia-Ukraine might end after the US President Donald Trump’s pompous intervention. The Russian President Vladimir Putin has assumed a noticeably favourable tone, downplaying Trump’s economic threats, while Trump blames Ukrainian President Zelensky squarely as the one who started the war.

NEW YORK: “The reckless approval of an agreement with the Hamas terror organization . . . represents a disgraceful surrender. This deal forfeits the IDF’s (Israel Defense Forces) hard-won achievements in the war, involves withdrawing forces from Gaza, and halts the fighting in a manner that capitulates to Hamas,” read the statement by Itamar Ben-Gvir, the leader of the Jewish Power party, as he resigned from the post of minister of national security earlier this week.