India on August 1 assumed the rotating presidency of the United Nations Security Council and will be hosting signature events related to maritime security, peacekeeping, and counter-terrorism during the month.
Sydney: Australia's biggest city Sydney posted a record one-day rise in local Covid-19 cases last week and warned the outbreak would get worse, as authorities sought military help to enforce a lockdown of 6 million people poised to enter its...
NEW DELHI: Pakistan has ensured that India's most wanted terrorist Masood Azhar, who has been charge-sheeted in several cases from the 2001 Parliament attack to the 2019 Pulwama suicide bombing, remains in a densely populated area so that an...
Islamabad: A former Pakistani diplomat’s daughter has been murdered in Islamabad, according to a media report, just days after a major diplomatic row broke out between Pakistan and Afghanistan over the alleged abduction of the daughter of Afghanistan’s...
Dhaka: A mob of radical Islamists in Bangladesh attacked the Hindu community without provocation June 21 (Eid day). The incident took place at Kalabari Union Parakata Bazar in Kotalipara in the Gopalganj district of Bangladesh.
Dhaka: A fire engulfed a food and beverage factory outside Bangladesh’s capital, killing at least 52 people, many of whom were trapped inside by an illegally locked door, fire officials said. The blaze began Thursday night at the five-storey...
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: Nepal’s Supreme Court on Monday reinstated its parliament, which was dissolved by caretaker Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli in May, and ordered that his rival Sher Bahadur Deuba be appointed as prime minister. The move deals a major...
On 28 June, BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha (BAPS) in the UK responded to Nepal’s escalating crisis by facilitating the procurement and distribution of 33 portable oxygen concentrators to Noble Compassionate Volunteers (NCV) Nepal – a group of humanitarian...
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...
New Delhi: Asking Pakistan to not engage in baseless propaganda against India over the recent blast outside JuD chief Hafiz Saeed’s residence in Lahore, the government said that Islamabad would do well to expend the same effort in setting its...
The US Securities and Exchange Commission announced insider trading charges against a Silicon Valley trading ring, two of whom were Indian Americans Naveen Sood and Naresh Ramaiya. The six-member ring generated nearly $1.7 million in illegal...
MULTAN: Pakistan opened its first government-run school for transgender students in the central city of Multan, a provincial education minister said, promising to set up more such schools in future. The school, established by the educational...
Dhaka: A fire engulfed a food and beverage factory outside Bangladesh’s capital, killing at least 52 people, many of whom were trapped inside by an illegally...
New Delhi: As uncertainty increases in Afghanistan, New Delhi evacuated all its India-based personnel from Kandahar by a special flight, as Taliban advanced...
The Biden administration has picked Atul Keshap as the charge d’affaires to hold the fort in New Delhi pending the nomination of a full-time ambassador to India. Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti is widely tipped for the post. Keshap, an Indian-American,...
OTTAWA: Hundreds of deaths in Canada, and in the US states of Oregon and Washington may have been caused by the historic heat wave that baked the Pacific Northwest and shattered all-time temperature records in usually temperate cities. Oregon...
VERNON: An Indian American motel owner in Connecticut was shot dead after an argument over the price of a pass to use the motel’s swimming pool on a hot summer day. Hotelier Zeshan Chaudhry, 30, of Vernon, was shot at the Motel 6 after demanding...
Pretoria: Sentenced to 15 months in prison for contempt of court, former South African president Jacob Zuma is not expected to be arrested until at least...
Pretoria: Gupta brothers - Ajay, Atul and Rajesh - are at the centre of a long-running probe into the embezzlement of state assets under former South African...
