
China has started the process to facilitate the return of Indian students to China on a “need-assessed basis” by asking India to submit a list of students...
India and Nepal’s “ever-strengthening” friendship and closeness will benefit the entire humanity amid the kind of global conditions that are emerging, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in a special 20-minute address in Lumbini on the sidelines...
Kathmandu: Kenton Cool, a 48-year-old British national, has scaled the world’s highest peak Mount Everest for the 16th time, becoming the first non-Nepalese to do so, a media report said. Cool, who hails from Gloucestershire, a county in South...
Peshawar: Two Sikh businessmen were shot dead by the Islamic State terrorists in northwest Pakistan on Sunday, the latest targeted attack against the minority community members in the restive province bordering Afghanistan.
Islamabad: Signs of discontent among the constituents of Pakistan’s ruling coalition appeared early with PPP chairman and foreign minister designate Bilawal Bhutto Zardari linking his joining the federal cabinet with the induction of lawmakers...
Kuswait: Global warming is smashing temperature records all over the world, but Kuwait - one of the hottest countries on the planet - is fast becoming un-liveable. In 2016, thermometers hit 54 degree Celsius, the highest reading on Earth in...
Dhaka: Supporters of Bangladesh’s main opposition party have organised protests across the country demanding that their jailed leader be immediately allowed to go abroad for treatment. Khaleda Zia, the 76-year-old leader of the Bangladesh Nationalist...
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.
India and Nepal’s “ever-strengthening” friendship and closeness will benefit the entire humanity amid the kind of global conditions that are emerging, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in a special 20-minute address in Lumbini on the sidelines...
Kathmandu: Kenton Cool, a 48-year-old British national, has scaled the world’s highest peak Mount Everest for the 16th time, becoming the first non-Nepalese to do so, a media report said. Cool, who hails from Gloucestershire, a county in South...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi received a grand welcome by the diaspora in Germany, on his three-nation Europe trip.
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...
China has started the process to facilitate the return of Indian students to China on a “need-assessed basis” by asking India to submit a list of students...
Naypyidaw: A court in military-ruled Myanmar convicted the country’s former leader Aung San Suu Kyi of corruption and sentenced her to five years in prison...
Beijing: Beijing is closing all city schools in a further tightening of Covid-19 restrictions, as China’s capital seeks to prevent a wider outbreak.
San Francisco: Tesla CEO Elon Musk could fire Twitter’s legal head Vijaya Gadde once he takes over, reports said. “Gadde, who earned $17 million last year as Twitter’s top legal counsel, could be on the chopping block as Musk is reportedly planning...
Ontario: Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel's statue was unveiled in front of Sanatan Mandir and culture centre at Ontario on the occasion of the 62nd Gujarat Day....
America's CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) has picked Indian-origin IT professional Nand Mulchandani as its first chief technology officer (CTO). The...
Over 1,100 Indian peacekeepers serving with the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) were awarded UN medals, honouring them for their exceptional service in the strife-torn African country.
Kathmandu: Nepal banned imported liquor, playing cards and nearly a dozen other “nonessential” goods to address the country’s widening trade deficit and declining foreign currency reserves, officials said. Falling remittances and tourism earnings,...
Singapore: A mentally disabled Indian-origin Malaysian man was hanged in Singapore last week, his family said, after losing a long legal battle and despite...
Dhaka: Nearly six months after a controversy erupted following incidents of attacks on the Durga Puja pandals, a prominent Hindu leader was brutally tortured during the Iftar party recently.