Arul Louis

Arul Louis

About Arul Louis

The author a New York-based journalist, is a non-resident Senior Fellow of the Society for Policy Studies

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US starts airlift of citizens from Bangladesh, coordinating with India

The US government has begun airlifting its citizens stuck in Bangladesh because of coronavirus pandemic and is coordinating with India to arrange flights from there for its nationals, according to a State Department official

Asylum rights of Sikhs, Hindus fleeing Afghanistan attacks 'must be respected'

Asylum rights must be respected for Sikhs and Hindus who may be fleeing religious persecution in Afghanistan where a gurdwara was bombed this week killing at least 25 people, according to Secretary-General Antonio Guterres's Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric

UN welcomes India's pandemic control measures

The world organisation welcomes India's efforts to fight the coronavirus epidemic and is ready to serve those hardest hit, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres's Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said on Thursday

Guterres calls for multi-trillion-dollar 'war-time' plan

Ahead of a virtual meeting of the leaders of the G20, UN General-Secretary Antonio Guterres has appealed to them to adopt a multi-trillion-dollar "war-time" plan to fight the coronavirus pandemic

UN chief calls for stopping capital punishment

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for putting an end to  capital punishment after he received news of four simultaneous hangings in India

Indian American heads US telemedicine push

Seema Verma, a top Indian American official, is leading a major US push for a path-breaking telemedicine initiative using laptops and phones and apps like Skype to ease the burden of growing coronavirus cases and the threat of infections

For Trump facing re-election India was the 51st US state!

If the adulation of Trump and the rally made it seem like India was the 51st state in Trump's re-election campaign, it may be because Modi bets on the re-election of a tough, right-wing hardliner with whom he shares some characteristics, writes Arul Louis for South Asia Monitor

Guterres invokes 'spirit of Gandhi' to seek community reconciliation in Delhi

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday invoked the “spirit of Gandhi” to ask for community reconciliation in Delhi that has been wracked by communal violence, according to his Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric

Going to do lot of business with 'incredible' India: Trump

Calling relations with “incredible” India “extraordinary,” US President Donald Trump has said that the US was going to do a lot of business with it

Trump will be seventh US president to visit India

When Donald Trump is greeted with a crescendo of“Namastes” when he lands in Ahmedabad he will be the seventh US president to visit India while in office