Islamabad: Saudi Arabia has agreed to provide cash-starved Pakistan with a “sizeable package” of around $8 billion aid to bolster dwindling forex reserves and revive its ailing economy. Pakistan has faced growing economic challenges, with high...
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20th May 2022 | Updated at 06:06am 20th May 2022
Ties with Nepal unshakable like Himalayas: PM Modi
- 18 May 2022
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...
Briton scales Mt Everest for the 16th time
- 18 May 2022
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...
2 Sikh traders killed in northwest Pak; Sharif calls it 'terror attack'
- 18 May 2022
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.
Bilawal Bhutto sets terms for joining Shehbaz govt
- 27 Apr 2022
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...
Pakistan seeks more funds from IMF
- 27 Apr 2022
Hot temperatures make Kuwait an un-liveable country
- 19 Jan 2022
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...
Protests in Bangladesh as Khaleda Zia's health deteriorates
- 01 Dec 2021
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...
“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.
Ties with Nepal unshakable like Himalayas: PM Modi
- 18 May 2022
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...
Briton scales Mt Everest for the 16th time
- 18 May 2022
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...
Floods, landslides kill 104 in Nepal
- 27 Oct 2021
‘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.
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...
COLOMBO: Staging a protest against the Sri Lankan government for not making way for an interim government, the country’s powerful Buddhist clergy has threatened...
A Ukrainian minister urged India to support the war-ravaged European country “more actively” and pushed the Western powers to put a “true embargo” on export of Russian oil and gas for its invasion.
India remains ahead of Russia and the UK as the third largest military spender in the world, but far behind China that spends four times and the US which...
Fukuoka (Japan): Kane Tanaka, a Japanese woman believed to have been the world’s oldest person, has died aged 119. Tanaka died of old age at a hospital...
Abuja: More than 100 people were killed in an explosion at an illegal oil refining depot in Nigeria’s Rivers state, a local government official said. “The...
Paris: French President Emmanuel Macron won re-election on Sunday, convincingly defeating his rival Marine Le Pen and prompting a wave of relief in Europe...
Dubai: The UAE cabinet has approved the executive regulations of the federal decree law on entry and residence of foreigners aimed at strengthening the UAE position as an ideal destination to live, work, and invest.
- 27 Apr 2022
Ottawa: Canada is all set to resume its Express Entry draws in early July to fill hundreds of thousands of vacant positions in all sectors across the country. The draw will be open for candidates that fall under the categories - Canadian experience...
India has condemned US Congresswoman Ilhan Omar's visit to Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) last week as violative of India’s territorial integrity and sovereignty. The remarks came during a briefing by the ministry of external affairs spokesperson...
