Canberra: Australia's threat to jail citizens returning home from India has sparked condemnation, with critics labelling the Covid measure as "racist" and a breach of human rights. From Monday, any Australian arriving in the country from India...
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12th May 2021 | Updated at 02:07pm 12th May 2021
Lancet sees flaws in govt response to Covid crisis
- 12 May 2021
India needs to overcome its shortcomings in combating Covid quickly by adopting a two-pronged strategy to control the outbreak that include setting right the vaccination campaign and measures to ensure poorer and rural citizens are not left...
Kamala pledges more aid to India
- 12 May 2021
Asserting that the “welfare of India is critically important to the US,” Vice-President Kamala Harris, whose mother hailed from India and whose aunt is a physician in Chennai, pledged that the Biden administration will do even more for India...
London law graduate strangled and shot on visit to Pakistan
- 12 May 2021
Lahore: A British law graduate was strangled and shot to dead on a visit to Pakistan, local reports claim. Mayra Zulfiqar, 26, is said to have been shot by suspects who broke into her apartment in Lahore. She moved to Pakistan two months ago...
Pak army ‘biggest land grabber’: Lahore HC
- 05 May 2021
Lahore: In a rare rebuke of Pakistan’s army, the Lahore high court has called it the country’s “biggest land grabber” and said its uniform is for the service to the nation and “not to rule as a king”.
Bangladesh imposes 7 day nationwide lockdown amid coronavirus surge
- 05 May 2021
Dhaka: Amid surging coronavirus cases, Bangladesh has decided to impose a seven-day nationwide lockdown to contain the spread of the deadly virus. The announcement was made by the Road Transport Minister Obaidul Quader during a media briefing....
Hefazat leaders want to turn Bangladesh into Taliban state
- 28 Apr 2021
Dhaka: Mamunul Haque, an influential leader of hardcore Islamist group Hefazat-e-Islam in Bangladesh, along with other leaders, has confessed to wanting to turn Bangladesh into a Taliban state like Afghanistan if they came to power.Haque was...
“NO BETTER ALLY THAN THE UK”
- 25 Nov 2020
Recently appointed Indian-American Chief of Staff to Acting Defence Secretary speaks about 9/11, Kashmir, safeguarding regional security in the Indian Ocean through the Quad and the UK-USA special relationship.
Harvey Weinstein rape trial begins in New York
- 08 Jan 2020
Dressed in a black suit, former film producer Harvey Weinstein arrived at a Manhattan court on Monday for the start of his landmark rape trial, met by celebrity accusers including Rosanna Arquette who helped fuel the #MeToo movement in the wake...
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 runs out of hospital beds as India’s outbreak spills across the border
- 05 May 2021
Kathmandu: The coronavirus outbreak in India has spilled across the border into Nepal, where health officials have warned that hospital beds are unavailable, vaccines are running short and the number of new infections is rising faster than what...
Nepal’s reinstated parliament begins session, Prachanda faction walks out
- 10 Mar 2021
Kathmandu: Nepal’s reinstated lower house of parliament held its first meeting on Sunday during which the lawmakers belonging to the ruling Nepal Communist Party's (NCP) splinter faction led by Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ boycotted the session....
China seizes 150 hectares of Nepal
- 09 Nov 2020
UK diaspora and students protest against anti-Muslim violence in Delhi
Braving snow and rain, more than 200 members of the Indian diaspora and student communities in London gathered outside the Indian High Commission on Saturday 29 January afternoon, to protest the targeted anti-Muslim pogrom in Delhi which has...
Kerala Chief Minister opens trading floor at the London Stock Exchange
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan rang the bell at the London Stock Exchange, opening the Market on Friday 17 May, marking the listing of Masala Bonds sold by Kerala Infrastructure Investment Fund Board (KIIFB). It is a government owned...
Nairobi: The Communication Authority of Kenya has ordered the closure of a local television channel for a period of four weeks after the station aired explicit content on children's programmes. The authority alleges that the Mount Kenya TV channel...
Harare: Zimbabwe is selling rights to shoot up to 500 elephants this year to generate public revenue, the country's wildlife agency said, weeks after the...
Kampala: The government of Uganda has dispelled allegations that it has suspended Uganda Airlines top bosses. Earlier reports have been making rounds that...
- 05 May 2021
Dhaka: Amid surging coronavirus cases, Bangladesh has decided to impose a seven-day nationwide lockdown to contain the spread of the deadly virus. The...
Colombo: Sri Lanka’s cabinet approved a proposed ban on wearing full-face veils, including Muslim burqas in public, citing national security grounds, despite...
Lahore: In a rare rebuke of Pakistan’s army, the Lahore high court has called it the country’s “biggest land grabber” and said its uniform is for the service...
- 05 May 2021
Kathmandu: The coronavirus outbreak in India has spilled across the border into Nepal, where health officials have warned that hospital beds are unavailable,...
A huge car bomb blast killed at least 30 people and injured dozens more in Afghanistan’s eastern Logar province last week, officials said. The car detonated in Logar’s capital of Pul-e Alam near the home of the former head of the provincial...
Kinshasa: The Democratic Republic of Congo has declared a ‘state of siege’ in violence-hit eastern provinces. Hundreds of people have been killed and many...
