Islamabad: Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif has presented a bleak picture of the country’s falling economy, regretting that even friendly countries had started looking at Pakistan as one that was always begging for money. “Today, when we go to any...
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1st Oct 2022 | Updated at 09:51am 1st Oct 2022
PM Modi, world leaders attend Shinzo Abe's funeral in Tokyo
- 28 Sep 2022
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday joined several world leaders in Tokyo to attend former Japanese PM Shinzo Abe's state funeral. Japan began the state funeral with his widow Akie carrying his ashes into a Tokyo hall where thousands of...
Pak diplomat holds secret meeting with Sikh radicals in Canada
- 28 Sep 2022
Ontario: On the day the so-called Sikh referendum was held in Brampton, Ontario, the Pakistani Consul General Janbaz Khan visited two pro-Khalistan Gurudwara in Surrey in Vancouver ostensibly to thank the office-bearers for sending donations...
Imran says sorry for jibe at judge
- 28 Sep 2022
Pak PM Shehbaz faces treason charges for consulting Nawaz
- 28 Sep 2022
Lahore: Pakistan’s Punjab Assembly has passed a resolution with a majority vote against PM Shehbaz Sharif, seeking his trial under treason charges for consulting his ‘fugitive’ elder brother Nawaz Sharif in London on the appointment of the next...
Pak army slams Imran Khan’s ‘defamatory’ remarks
- 14 Sep 2022
Islamabad: Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has landed in a new controversy after the country’s powerful army reacted strongly to some “defamatory” statements made by him on the appointment of the new military chief.
Pak inflation touches 47-year high
- 08 Sep 2022
Temple, homes and shops of Hindus vandalised in Bangladesh
- 20 Jul 2022
Dhaka: A temple, shops and several houses of the Hindu community have been vandalised in southwestern Bangladesh by some unidentified people over a Facebook post allegedly belittling Islam, in the latest spate of violence targeting the religious...
Hindu college principal forced to wear garland of shoes
- 06 Jul 2022
Dhaka: A video showing a Hindu college principal being compelled to wear a garland of shoes has provoked fury on social media in Bangladesh. The Muslims put the garland on shoes around the neck of Principal Swapan Kumar Biswas in the presence...
“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...
A gutsy and outdoorsy couple tale
- 29 Jun 2021
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.
17 killed in Nepal after heavy rain triggers landslides
- 21 Sep 2022
Kathmandu: At least 17 people have been killed in landslides triggered by heavy rain in western Nepal, an official said. The landslides occurred in different parts of the Achham district of the Sudurpaschim province, which has been badly affected...
Budget leak: Nepal’s finance minister forced to quit
- 13 Jul 2022
Kathmandu: Nepal’s Finance Minister Janardan Sharma was forced to resign from the post after the government yielded to the pressure to form an all-party parliamentary probe committee to go into the “budget leak” allegations on the eve of its...
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.
Kathmandu: At least 17 people have been killed in landslides triggered by heavy rain in western Nepal, an official said. The landslides occurred in different...
Colombo: A Sri Lankan court named former president Maithripala Sirisena as a suspect in the 2019 Easter bombings in which 270 people, including 11 Indians, were killed.
Colombo: With a total of $968 million in loans in four months of 2022, India has emerged as Sri Lanka's largest bilateral lender, overtaking China in the...
Pakistan police have filed a chargesheet against three more persons, including the alleged mastermind, in connection with the powerful car bomb blast outside Mumbai attack mastermind and JuD chief Hafiz Saeed’s house in June last year that killed...
India called Sri Lanka out at UNHRC for lack of “measurable progress” on the latter’s commitments for a political solution to the ethnic Tamil minority issue through “full implementation of the 13th Amendment of the Constitution”. The government...
India is moving forward with talks on multiple free trade agreements and is hoping to finalize a deal with the UK by Diwali, commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal said. Goyal was in the US for a ministerial meeting of the Indo-Pacific...
Taipei: A delegation of five French lawmakers and another group from the US Congress have visited Taiwan this week, in a show of support for the island amid rising tensions with China, officials and sources said. The French delegation will be...
Kampala: At least 15 people died in western Uganda after their homes were buried in a landslide triggered by torrential rains. Most of those killed were women and children, Uganda Red Cross spokeswoman Irene Nakasiita said in a statement.
Memphis: A teenager has been arrested after an hours-long shooting spree across the city of Memphis that left four people dead in a series of separate attacks, including one that was broadcast live on Facebook, police said. Charges were pending...
