Biggest government operation in area since truce; little hope for breakthrough at Geneva peace talks
For what it is worth - not much, one may add - the Congress Party has tied up with the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam to fight assembly elections in Tamil Nadu which are due in less than three months.
After decades of struggle, hundreds of lawmakers from Aung San Suu Kyi’s camp will form Myanmar’s ruling party today, with enough seats in parliament to choose the first democratically elected government since the military took power in 1962.