While Myanmar struggles in an unending cycle of civil war, authoritarianism, and ethnic violence, the international community has largely left the country’s citizens to fend for themselves
Nayanika Sengupta
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Nayanika has been covering news without the noise for over four years and currently heads the news desk covering general, national and international day-to-day news for Outlook as a Senior Sub-editor. Apart from breaking, explaining and analysing what's happening in and around, Nayanika is a gourmand and loves to cook and feed people. When not writing, she can be found in a grocery store, picking up ingredients for her next dish. She aims to speak for those who have no voice and empower other lives with the power she achieves in life.
About The Author
Nayanika has been covering news without the noise for over four years and currently heads the news desk covering general, national and international day-to-day news for Outlook as a Senior Sub-editor. Apart from breaking, explaining and analysing what's happening in and around, Nayanika is a gourmand and loves to cook and feed people. When not writing, she can be found in a grocery store, picking up ingredients for her next dish. She aims to speak for those who have no voice and empower other lives with the power she achieves in life.
Iran and Israel have mostly refrained from directly attacking each other, making the Iranian missile salvo of Tuesday at Israeli territories a massive escalation in the Middle East conflict that stems mainly from the war on Gaza.
This recent renaming of Pune airport and the city of Port Blair in Andaman & Nicobar islands and the recent pitch to replace Urdu words like 'Shahi' from Hindu religious texts by seers of Uttarakhand come at a time when renaming places, symbols, and institutions associated with colonialism, Mughal rule, or perceived foreign influence has gained momentum under the current Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government.
Information given to New York Times by the Israeli officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the subject, suggests that Israel saw an opportunity to carry out the complex operation when a top Hezbollah official in February made an appeal to his followers to "bury, put in iron box and lock" their phones, which he said were the "agents".
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A massive global outage of Microsoft 365 apps and services resulted in blue screens on laptops for thousands of people, hit operations in airlines, banks, markets and offices across spectrums, but the meme army was at its creative best on social media.
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