Islamabad: The losses from the catastrophic monsoon rains and floods in Pakistan, the war in Ukraine and other factors may force it to slash its GDP growth rate for the financial year 2022-23 from 5% to 3%, media reported.

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka's president asked officials to resolve obstacles to projects backed by India, a government statement said, without specifying what the obstacles were. President Ranil Wickremesinghe chaired a discussion on the progress of...

New Delhi: India registered a strong protest with the US over the latter’s decision to approve a $450 million sustainment package for Pakistan’s aging F-16 fleet. The protest is learnt to have come in the form of a sharp rebuke delivered to...

Pretoria: A court quashed President Cyril Ramaphosa's suspension of South Africa's public protector a day after she launched a probe into a burglary at his farmhouse, calling the move "improper".

Memphis: A teenager has been arrested after an hours-long shooting spree across the city of Memphis that left four people dead in a series of separate attacks, including one that was broadcast live on Facebook, police said. Charges were pending...

Kampala: At least 15 people died in western Uganda after their homes were buried in a landslide triggered by torrential rains. Most of those killed were women and children, Uganda Red Cross spokeswoman Irene Nakasiita said in a statement.

We are about to, hopefully, complete on a financing deal which we have been trying to get over the line for the best part of a year. The property is a mixed use freehold, currently. A now extremely low rate of 4.34% fixed for 5 years had been...

Captains Niraj Chandan (head of flight safety), Vishesh Oberoi (head of operations) and Sorab Variava (head of training) – three senior executives of Jet Airways have resigned from their posts ahead of the relaunching of the airline. These posts...