Washington: US President Joe Biden criticised Pakistan, calling it "one of the most dangerous nations in the world" and said it may possess "nuclear weapons...
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22nd Oct 2026 | Updated at 09:52am 22nd Oct 2026
BAPS Toronto Mandir unveils 49-ft Shri Nilkanth Varni Murti
- 21 Oct 2026
The BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir in Toronto, Canada, marked a significant milestone in North American Satsang history on 16 October 2026 with the Murti Pratishtha Mahotsav of a 49-ft Tapomurti of Shri Nilkanth Varni, the youthful ascetic form...
Tricolour spirit spreads across the globe
- 20 Aug 2026
India’s 80th Independence Day brought together people across the country and the global Indian diaspora to honour the freedom struggle and celebrate the nation’s progress.Across the world, Indian communities marked the occasion with flag-hoisting...
Xi-Trump talks focus on trade and AI
- 01 Oct 2026
Tamil Nadu teen wins Brown scholarship
- 12 Aug 2026
No wish for revenge, Nawaz tells supporters on return
- 25 Oct 2023
Islamabad: Pakistan’s former three-time prime minister Nawaz Sharif arrived home on Saturday, ending a four-year self-imposed exile in London and restarting his political journey ahead of the general elections with a huge rally at Minar-e-Pakistan...
Bilawal to attend SCO meet in Goa, India plays it down
- 26 Apr 2023
Pakistan's foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari will attend SCO foreign ministers meet which India is hosting in Goa on May 5.The Indian administration didn't explicitly rule out a meeting between S Jaishankar and Bilawal, but it didn't seem...
Bangladesh’s Tarique Rahman sworn in after historic vote
- 18 Feb 2026
Tarique Rahman and his cabinet ministers took oath, becoming the first elected leaders since the deadly 2024 uprising.Rahman is set to be the first male prime minister in 35 years in Bangladesh, a country of 170 million, while new parliament...
Rising attacks on Hindus spark calls to review Yunus’ Nobel Prize
- 07 Jan 2026
Atrocities against Hindus in Bangladesh have reportedly increased, triggering criticism of Muhammad Yunus and renewed questions over his Nobel Peace Prize, amid accusations that he has failed, as Chief Advisor of the interim government, to curb...
Indian national arrested in Santa Fe child predator sting
- 25 Mar 2026
A 26-year-old Indian national, Nagaraju Balkam, was arrested earlier this month in a multi-day undercover operation targeting online child sexual predators, the Santa Fe Police confirmed.Balkam was one of four men taken into custody after detectives...
US forces raid Venezuela, abducts Maduro
- 07 Jan 2026
US President Donald Trump has issued a series of blunt warnings to multiple countries in recent hours, signalling an increasingly confrontational stance across global regions. This follows a bold US military operation in Venezuela, which resulted...
Tamil Nadu teen wins Brown scholarship
- 12 Aug 2026
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.
Nepal PM Prachanda likely to visit India next month
- 22 Mar 2023
Kathmandu: Nepal’s PM Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ is likely to travel to India on an official visit next month - his first foreign trip since assuming the office for the third time in December last year, a media report said.
Nepal ruling coalition bags 90 seats out of 165
- 07 Dec 2022
Kathmandu: The top leaders of Nepal’s five-party ruling coalition on Monday met at PM Sher Bahadur Deuba’s official residence to review the general elections and discuss the formation of a new government.
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.
Geneva: The WHO (World Health Organisation) has issued a global alert over four cough syrups. The warning says that these syrups might be responsible for the deaths of 66 children in Gambia. They stated that syrups have been “potentially linked...
Washington: The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) of America has launched a lawsuit against US healthcare service providers for unlawfully firing Indian-origin Sikh paramedic Ravinder Singh.
Indiana (USA): A 20-year-old Indian-origin student was killed in his dormitory in the US state of Indiana and his Korean roommate was taken into custody on murder charges. Varun Manish Chheda from Indianapolis, who was studying data science...
California: An initial probe has revealed that the man arrested for kidnapping and killings four members of an Indian-origin Sikh family in the United States was an employee of their trucking business. A relative of the family even informed...
An Indian teenager, who hailed from the north-eastern Indian Jewish community of Bnei Menashe and immigrated to Israel from India less than a year ago, was stabbed to death after a fight broke out at a birthday party in the northern Israeli...
Geneva: Cascading global crises have left 54 countries, including Sri Lanka – home to more than half of the world's poorest people - in dire need of debt...
Dhaka: For large parts of the day, life in much of Dhaka is punctuated by a string of power outages leaving residents faced with unrelenting heat and other hardships in the lurch. To make matters worse, the revival of the dreaded load-shedding...
Islamabad: Pakistan army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa gave the public the assurance that the armed forces have kept a political distance and intend to do so in the future.
Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif called former PM Imran Khan as the "greatest liar on the face of the earth" and a cheat whose policies destroyed the nation's economy. In an interview, Sharif talked about the damage that was...
