Hyderabad: Myanmar's democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi plans to visit Papasanipalli village in Andhra Pradesh's Anantapur district on November 17 to witness rural development programmes. Suu Kyi will be accompanied by Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh and Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy will visit, official sources said in Hyderabad on Wednesday. They will witness a powerpoint presentation on rural development and interact with members of self-help groups...
11:05 PM, Nov 14, 2012
Returning after a gap of 25 years, Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Wednesday said she was saddened that India was drawn away from Myanmar in its "most difficult days" and hoped it will stand by her country in achieving democracy. She also remembered Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru and said the difficulties she faced in her battle for democracy were quite similar to those the Indian leaders ...
10:23 PM, Nov 14, 2012
Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Wednesday met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during which they discussed a variety of issues including the national reconciliation process underway in Myanmar and the process of democratisation in this context. ...
10:20 PM, Nov 14, 2012
Does Aung San Suu Kyi's visit confirm a change in India's attitude to the Nobel laureate? ...
10:10 PM, Nov 14, 2012
New Delhi: Nobel Peace Laureate and Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi today said Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru were the two Indian leaders to whom she felt "closest" and recalled how and she and India's first prime minister had many things in common. The India-educated pro-democracy icon, who is coming to this country after 25 years, said many of the challenges faced by Gandhi and Nehru along the...
06:46 PM, Nov 14, 2012
New Delhi: Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Wednesday met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during which they discussed a variety of issues including the national reconciliation process underway in Myanmar and the process of democratisation in this context. According to official sources, the Prime Minister told Suu Kyi that "our good wishes are with you as indeed with your struggle for democracy. We admire you for the indomitable...
02:38 PM, Nov 14, 2012
Global icon Aung San Suu Kyi visited the Rajghat on Wednesday morning and will meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh later in the day. The Myanmar opposition leader arrived in New Delhi on Tuesday on a visit to India after a gap of nearly four decades as part of New Delhi's ongoing engagement with democratic and multi-party polity in that country. Suu Kyi, who is visiting India at the invitation of ...
11:49 AM, Nov 14, 2012
New Delhi: India rolled out the red carpet for global icon Aung Sang Suu Kyi as she returned to the country after 40 years. Suu Kyi visited the Rajghat on Wednesday morning and will meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh later in the day. The Myanmar opposition leader arrived in New Delhi on Tuesday on a visit to India after a gap of nearly four decades as part of New Delhi's...
09:47 AM, Nov 14, 2012
New Delhi: Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi arrived here on Tuesday on her first visit to India in four decades. Suu Kyi flashed a traditional "namaste" as she stepped out of the aircraft that brought her from Yangon. Officials here said she would meet Indian leaders including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The Nobel Laureate will be meeting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, tour Parliament and deliver a public lecture....
01:12 PM, Nov 13, 2012
New Delhi: Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is arriving in India on Tuesday. This is the Nobel laureate's first visit to the country in 40 years. As India gears up to welcome her to the Delhi where she spent her youth, it also walks a tight rope on the diplomatic front. Ambassador Ranjit Gupta IFS (Retd) said, "Suu Kyi felt what India had done turning around from phenomenal...
07:52 AM, Nov 13, 2012
Yangon: A strong earthquake of magnitude 6.8 struck northern Myanmar on Sunday, collapsing a bridge and a gold mine, damaging several old Buddhist pagodas and leaving as many as 12 people feared dead. A slow release of official information left the actual extent of the damage unclear after Sunday's strong quake. Myanmar has a poor official disaster response system, despite having lost upward of 140,000 people to a devastating cyclone...
08:48 AM, Nov 12, 2012
London: Accusing Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi of being an "ally" of the military regime, an opposition party in Myanmar has asked the world investors not to engage in any investment with the present dispensation until a "genuine democratic government" is elected. "Aung San Suu Kyi has made a U-turn and now she is an ally, collaborator and mouthpiece of the military regime. She has become a coalition partner...
05:00 PM, Nov 11, 2012
Mumbai: Charges are likely to be filed in the Azad Maidan violence case on Thursday and sources said that the Mumbai Crime Branch is ready to file a chargesheet but some confusion prevails regarding the custody of the two community leaders whose speeches had allegedly instigated the mob present at the venue on August 11. The Police is now awaiting a nod from the home department on the issue of...
09:49 AM, Nov 08, 2012
New York: In a move that is expected to give significant economic boost to Myanmar, the US has said it will begin easing restrictions on imports of goods from the South east Asian country in recognition of efforts by its government to bring the country back on the road to democracy. The announcement was made by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during her meeting with Myanmar's President U Thein Sein...
12:22 PM, Sep 27, 2012
New York: Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who was placed under house arrest for 15 years by military generals, says she could never "hate" them and has a "soft spot" for Burmese military men as she grew up feeling a part of the army family thanks to her father, founder of the country's army. Suu Kyi said she was in an "unusual position" since she remembers the adulation her...
04:43 AM, Sep 24, 2012
New York: Myanmar's pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi has described Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru among her "greatest sources" of influence, as she encouraged American students to read the works of India's Father of the Nation. Suu Kyi, said Gandhi, civil rights activist Martin Luther King and her father and "political mentor" Aung San were all men of principles and she read works by them to keep herself disciplined...
02:12 PM, Sep 23, 2012
New York: New York-based think tank Atlantic Council has awarded the 2012 Global Citizen Award to Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who says she does not deserve any praise or compassion for her struggles since she willingly made the choice of putting her country back on the road to democracy. Suu Kyi received the award on Friday from International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde. The honour comes...
09:12 PM, Sep 22, 2012
Washington: Visiting Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has received prestigious Congressional Gold Medal, a rare honour bestowed to any foreign leader by the US administration. The National League for Democracy leader also met President Barack Obama on a day when the US lifted additional sanctions on Myanmar. "This is one of the most moving days of my life, to be here in a house undivided, a house joined...
11:43 AM, Sep 20, 2012
Washington: Myanmar's democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi has arrived here on her first visit to the US, after being released from house arrest in 2010, during which she will meet President Barack Obama and be honoured with Congress' highest award for her human rights work. The 17-day visit will be her first to the country since she began her fight for democracy in Myanmar in 1988. During her visit,...
01:10 PM, Sep 18, 2012
Yangon: Former US Secretary of State Madeline Albright, Aung San Suu Kyi's sons and two dead US congressmen were among 2,082 names removed on Thursday from a Myanmar government blacklist that gives an insight into the paranoia of its former military junta. Late Philippine President Corazon Aquino, US singer-turned-politician Sonny Bono and Kim and Alexander Aris, the sons of Nobel laureate Suu Kyi, were some of the prominent names taken...
08:46 AM, Aug 31, 2012
