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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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”.
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.
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.
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.
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...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi received a grand welcome by the diaspora in Germany, on his three-nation Europe trip.
Islamabad: In a fourth incident of its kind in the Sindh province in Pakistan in the past 36 days, a 13-year-old Pakistani Hindu girl was allegedly abducted and converted to Islam. Pakistan’s Hindu Member of National Assembly (MNA) Ramesh Kumar...
Islamabad: Pakistan PM Imran Khan has tested positive for Covid within 48 hours of receiving his first shot of the novel coronavirus vaccine, his top health...
Dhaka: Muslims and ‘student activists’ in Bangladesh took out a protest march ahead of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Dhaka. PM Modi is...
Beijing: With China's labour force shrinking under the impact of the now abandoned one-child policy, the world's second-largest economy is turning to machines to try to fill the gap. The working-age population - defined as those from 15 to 59...
WASHINGTON: Vanita Gupta, President Joe Biden's nominee for the Justice Department's No. 3 post, expressed regret for her past "harsh rhetoric" and said...
Nairobi: President Uhuru Kenyatta announced new measures for containing the spread of the coronavirus in Kenya, starting with a ban on all political gatherings for 30 days. While noting an increase in the positivity rate in Kenya over the last...
Kampala: Kampala has called a crisis meeting over the deadlock between Uganda and Kenya, which saw Nairobi ban maize imports from the country. In an interview, Julius Maganda, the State minister for the East African Community (EAC) Affairs,...
Colombo: Sri Lanka will ban wearing of the burqa and shut more than a thousand Islamic schools, a government minister said, the latest actions affecting...
New Delhi: Following recent tensions in ties, not least because of Sri Lanka’s decision to cancel an agreement with India and Japan for jointly developing...
Yangon: Security forces killed at least 14 protesters in a poor, industrial suburb of Myanmar’s main city of Yangon on Sunday while three others were killed...
