A five-judge bench of the Islamabad high court will hear the contempt case against Pakistan's former prime minister Imran Khan for his controversial remarks threatening a female judge during a rally here, a media report said
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1st Oct 2022 | Updated at 10:26am 1st Oct 2022
PM Modi, world leaders attend Shinzo Abe's funeral in Tokyo
- 28 Sep 2022
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday joined several world leaders in Tokyo to attend former Japanese PM Shinzo Abe's state funeral. Japan began the state funeral with his widow Akie carrying his ashes into a Tokyo hall where thousands of...
Pak diplomat holds secret meeting with Sikh radicals in Canada
- 28 Sep 2022
Ontario: On the day the so-called Sikh referendum was held in Brampton, Ontario, the Pakistani Consul General Janbaz Khan visited two pro-Khalistan Gurudwara in Surrey in Vancouver ostensibly to thank the office-bearers for sending donations...
Imran says sorry for jibe at judge
- 28 Sep 2022
Pak PM Shehbaz faces treason charges for consulting Nawaz
- 28 Sep 2022
Lahore: Pakistan’s Punjab Assembly has passed a resolution with a majority vote against PM Shehbaz Sharif, seeking his trial under treason charges for consulting his ‘fugitive’ elder brother Nawaz Sharif in London on the appointment of the next...
Pak army slams Imran Khan’s ‘defamatory’ remarks
- 14 Sep 2022
Islamabad: Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has landed in a new controversy after the country’s powerful army reacted strongly to some “defamatory” statements made by him on the appointment of the new military chief.
Pak inflation touches 47-year high
- 08 Sep 2022
Temple, homes and shops of Hindus vandalised in Bangladesh
- 20 Jul 2022
Dhaka: A temple, shops and several houses of the Hindu community have been vandalised in southwestern Bangladesh by some unidentified people over a Facebook post allegedly belittling Islam, in the latest spate of violence targeting the religious...
Hindu college principal forced to wear garland of shoes
- 06 Jul 2022
Dhaka: A video showing a Hindu college principal being compelled to wear a garland of shoes has provoked fury on social media in Bangladesh. The Muslims put the garland on shoes around the neck of Principal Swapan Kumar Biswas in the presence...
“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.
17 killed in Nepal after heavy rain triggers landslides
- 21 Sep 2022
Kathmandu: At least 17 people have been killed in landslides triggered by heavy rain in western Nepal, an official said. The landslides occurred in different parts of the Achham district of the Sudurpaschim province, which has been badly affected...
Budget leak: Nepal’s finance minister forced to quit
- 13 Jul 2022
Kathmandu: Nepal’s Finance Minister Janardan Sharma was forced to resign from the post after the government yielded to the pressure to form an all-party parliamentary probe committee to go into the “budget leak” allegations on the eve of its...
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.
The death toll from the floods reached 1,061 on Monday while rising levels of the gushing Indus river threatened more deluges in the lower-lying plains of Punjab and Sindh provinces before emptying into the Arabian Sea
An International Monetary Fund (IMF) team met Sri Lanka’s president for talks on a bailout, including restructuring debt of about $29 billion, amid the nation’s worst financial crisis in more than seven decades
Vikram K Doraiswami, an IFS officer of 1992 batch, currently serving as Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh, has been appointed as India's new high...
Chinese President Xi Jinping could meet his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin for the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Uzbekistan next month. There is hope that the event may also create an opening for a bilateral between Xi...
- 24 Aug 2022
The Federal Security Service (FSB) of Russia has detained an Islamic State bomber who, it said, was planning to travel to India to carry out a suicide attack on a ruling party "representative" for insult to Prophet Mohammad.
Tokyo: Japan has launched a drive to get young people to drink more alcohol. This comes after various people stopped drinking during the coronavirus pandemic, which has led to less revenue for the National Tax Agency.
Kisumu (Kenya): In a televised address, Kenyan presidential candidate Raila Odinga has spoken for the first time since he lost the election saying his coalition "totally and without reservations reject the presidential results."
New York: Indian diaspora participating in the annual India Day parade held in New York to celebrate the 75th anniversary of independence achieved a milestone as the event set two Guinness World Records respectively for the most number of different...
Toronto: Canadian police have arrested two men and charged them with first-degree murder in the targeted shooting of Ripudaman Singh Malik, the Sikh man acquitted in the tragic 1985 Air India Kanishka terrorist bombing case that killed 331 people.
