NEW ORLEANS: Ida, one of the most powerful hurricanes ever to hit the US Gulf Coast, knocked out power to over 1 million homes in Louisiana on Monday and...
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Indian national arrested in Santa Fe child predator sting
- 25 Mar 2026
A 26-year-old Indian national, Nagaraju Balkam, was arrested earlier this month in a multi-day undercover operation targeting online child sexual predators, the Santa Fe Police confirmed.Balkam was one of four men taken into custody after detectives...
Communities step up to help stranded travellers
- 11 Mar 2026
Rising Iran-Israel tensions have led to widespread airspace closures across West Asia, disrupting flights and stranding hundreds of thousands of passengers.Major hubs like Dubai International and Abu Dhabi’s Zayed International have scaled back...
No wish for revenge, Nawaz tells supporters on return
- 25 Oct 2023
Islamabad: Pakistan’s former three-time prime minister Nawaz Sharif arrived home on Saturday, ending a four-year self-imposed exile in London and restarting his political journey ahead of the general elections with a huge rally at Minar-e-Pakistan...
Bilawal to attend SCO meet in Goa, India plays it down
- 26 Apr 2023
Pakistan's foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari will attend SCO foreign ministers meet which India is hosting in Goa on May 5.The Indian administration didn't explicitly rule out a meeting between S Jaishankar and Bilawal, but it didn't seem...
Bangladesh’s Tarique Rahman sworn in after historic vote
- 18 Feb 2026
Tarique Rahman and his cabinet ministers took oath, becoming the first elected leaders since the deadly 2024 uprising.Rahman is set to be the first male prime minister in 35 years in Bangladesh, a country of 170 million, while new parliament...
Rising attacks on Hindus spark calls to review Yunus’ Nobel Prize
- 07 Jan 2026
Atrocities against Hindus in Bangladesh have reportedly increased, triggering criticism of Muhammad Yunus and renewed questions over his Nobel Peace Prize, amid accusations that he has failed, as Chief Advisor of the interim government, to curb...
Indian national arrested in Santa Fe child predator sting
- 25 Mar 2026
A 26-year-old Indian national, Nagaraju Balkam, was arrested earlier this month in a multi-day undercover operation targeting online child sexual predators, the Santa Fe Police confirmed.Balkam was one of four men taken into custody after detectives...
US forces raid Venezuela, abducts Maduro
- 07 Jan 2026
US President Donald Trump has issued a series of blunt warnings to multiple countries in recent hours, signalling an increasingly confrontational stance across global regions. This follows a bold US military operation in Venezuela, which resulted...
Gotabaya Rajapaksa calls for constitutional changes to curb minority parties
- 08 Jan 2020
Sri Lanka’s new president endorsed amending the constitution to reduce the power of minority political parties, saying the country wasn’t suited to a system that creates unstable governments “constantly under the influence of extremism”.
Trouble brewing in post-election Sri Lanka
- 11 Dec 2019
Weeks after the election of hardliner Gotabaya Rajapaksa as the president of Sri Lanka, the prospects for justice and reconciliation between the different communities on the island lie in tatters.
Nepal PM Prachanda likely to visit India next month
- 22 Mar 2023
Kathmandu: Nepal’s PM Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ is likely to travel to India on an official visit next month - his first foreign trip since assuming the office for the third time in December last year, a media report said.
Nepal ruling coalition bags 90 seats out of 165
- 07 Dec 2022
Kathmandu: The top leaders of Nepal’s five-party ruling coalition on Monday met at PM Sher Bahadur Deuba’s official residence to review the general elections and discuss the formation of a new government.
Three generations, three journeys
- 05 Sep 2022
Rakesh Patel, a 47-year-old commodity trader took a plunge to visit Greenland. Speaking to Asian Voice, he said, “Over a hundred years ago, our grandparents emigrated from India to Africa in search of a better life. In 1972, our parents had...
‘2024, MODI ONCE MORE’
- 04 May 2022
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi received a grand welcome by the diaspora in Germany, on his three-nation Europe trip.
Washington: Indians in America continue their march to greater learning and prosperity, with the latest US Census data showing them surpassing national metrics in college graduation and wealth by a wide margin. The median household income of...
Kampala: Uganda has struggled to access vaccines to reach its target of inoculating 22 million people, as the world's rich nations continue to hold onto...
Nairobi: With major constitutional changes suspended for now, and swirling new alliances taking shape, Kenya's political scene is shrouded in uncertainty as the country eyes crucial elections due a year from now. Earlier, Kenya's Court of Appeal...
Colombo: Sri Lanka has reopened its border to India, the country's high commission in New Delhi said, adding that fully vaccinated travellers will only...
- 01 Sep 2021
Pietermaritzburg (S Africa): A group of soldiers from the South African National Defence Forces (SANDF) has landed in Pietermaritzburg following reports...
- 01 Sep 2021
Pakistan last week received $2.75 billion from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) under a Special Drawing Rights (SDR) programme to support low-income countries hit by the coronavirus, its central bank said. The funds, part of a $650 billion...
- 01 Sep 2021
NEW DELHI: Another 9/11 is possible if the West doesn't engage with the Taliban or repeats the mistakes of the 90s, Pakistan's national security adviser...
- 01 Sep 2021
Kabul: As the US military raced toward a Tuesday deadline to withdraw from America’s longest war, sporadic violence in the Afghan capital underlined the...
The United Nations Security Council has dropped the Taliban reference from a paragraph in its statement on terrorist attacks near Kabul airport that called on Afghan groups not to support terrorists "operating on the territory of any other country"....
