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...
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...
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...
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”.
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....
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...
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.
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...
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: 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...
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....
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 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...
Unidentified gunmen shot a senior Pakistani journalist while he was taking a walk near his house in Islamabad. Absar Alam, who also served as a chairman of Pakistan Electronic Media Authority (PEMRA), the country’s electronic media watchdog,...
Islamabad: A banned Pakistani Islamist group called an end to violent nationwide anti-France protests, after the government called a parliamentary vote...
Jakarta: Southeast Asian leaders demanded an immediate end to killings and the release of political detainees in Myanmar in an emergency summit with its...
Dhaka: Mamunul Haque, an influential leader of hardcore Islamist group Hefazat-e-Islam in Bangladesh, along with other leaders, has confessed to wanting...
It is common knowledge that in South Asian countries like India, Nepal and Sri Lanka, physical vaginal tests are used to determine whether women and girls have been raped. Despite it having no scientific basis and being banned in India, these...
Former police officer Derek Chauvin has been convicted of murder for killing George Floyd, for kneeling on his neck for more than 9 minutes- a crime that...
A 48-year-old Indian-origin truck driver was jailed for 22 years for ramming his vehicle into Australian police officers and killing four of them last year on Melbourne’s Eastern Freeway.
Washington: Acknowledging that India among other countries in the region has a significant stake in Afghanistan, the Biden administration has pledged to ask regional nations to do more to support Kabul even as Washington packs up from the strife-torn...
Dhaka: An influential hardline cleric of an Islamist group was arrested in Bangladesh on charges of instigating violent protests in the Muslim-majority country. Police raided an Islamic seminary and arrested Hefazate-Islam joint secretary-general...
Cairo: Egypt is demanding $ 900 million in compensation after the blockade of the Suez Canal at the end of March, and the container ship that caused it has been seized in the meantime, the government said. The head of the Suez Canal Authority...
