A roadside bomb exploded near a convoy of foreign diplomats visiting Pakistan’s scenic Swat district in the northwest, leaving one policeman dead and three injured. Police officials said the victims were part of the squad leading the convoy...
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24th Mar 2026 | Updated at 07:53am 24th Mar 2026
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...
British Asians stranded amid travel chaos
- 03 Mar 2026
Thousands of flights have been cancelled and major Gulf airports suspended operations due to turmoil caused by the US-Israel war on Iran, stranding hundreds of thousands of travellers.Special evacuation flights were arranged from the UAE, while...
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...
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...
Kash Patel takes oath as FBI chief on Bhagwat Gita
- 27 Feb 2025
Kash Patel took oath as the ninth director of the FBI on the Bhagavad Gita and spoke about how a first-generation Indian kid is living the American dream, reflecting on his heritage. The US Senate voted 51 to 49 to confirm Patel last week.
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.
Sri Lanka's new president Anura Kumara Dissanayake has been sworn into office, promising "clean" politics as the country recovers from its worst economic crisis.
An explosion in a coal mine in eastern Iran killed at least 34 workers and injured 17 others, officials said, marking one of the worst mining disasters in the country’s history while many others remained missing hours after the blast. The blast...
A court in Pakistan sentenced a Christian woman to death in a blasphemy case. A case was filed under blasphemy laws against Shaughta Karan, accused of sharing derogatory material about the Prophet of Islam in a WhatsApp group in September 2020.
A man identified as 58-year-old Ryan Wesley Routh was arrested for an attempted assassination bid on former President of the United States, Donald Trump. He was spotted less than 500 metres away from the family golf course of Trump, located...
A 24-year-old Indian-origin Israeli soldier from the Bnei Menashe community was killed in a vehicle-ramming attack close to the West Bank's Beit El settlement, community members said.
The BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir located in Melville hamlet in the New York State of the United States was vandalised by extremists on Monday (16th September) night.
Kamala Harris has consolidated her polling lead over Donald Trump on economic issues, especially among voters who watched the presidential debate last week, according to the first big economy-focused election survey since the televised showdown.
- 18 Sep 2024
Chef Vikas Khanna has reacted to a resurfaced viral video showing his firm response to a BBC interviewer who implied his sense of hunger stemmed from his humble background in India
Hundreds of villagers in Myanmar waded or swam through chin-high waters, fleeing severe floods around the remote capital, Naypyidaw, as Vietnam began clearing up after Typhoon Yagi.
