Nepal: President Bidya Devi Bhandari tests COVID-19 positive
Oct 10, 2022, at 03:17 am
Kathmandu: Nepali President Bidya Devi Bhandari has tested COVID-19 positive, media reports said on Sunday.
Unknown men assassinate Taliban leader in Afghanistan
Oct 10, 2022, at 02:59 am
Unknown armed men assassinated the Taliban Head of Economy for the northern Afghan province of Faryab Abdul Rahman Munawar, media reports said on Sunday.
Pakistan: Nine person die as roof of house collapses in Chilas city
Oct 10, 2022, at 01:53 am
Chilas: At least nine persons died when the roof of their house collapsed in Pakistan's Chilas city on Sunday, media reports said.
China launches space-based observatory to unravel the Sun's secrets
Oct 09, 2022, at 03:15 pm
Jiuquan/UNI: China lifted off a solar exploration satellite into space from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China on Sunday.
Pakistan: Police baton-charge, arrest protesting school teachers in Peshawar
Oct 08, 2022, at 10:00 pm
Peshawar: The police arrested dozens of schoolteachers after resorting to baton-charge and tear gas firing to disperse their rally staged in Pakistan's Peshawar city on Thursday to demand upgradation of their pay scales and restoration of allowances.
Pakistan: Policeman hurt in Lakki attack
Oct 08, 2022, at 09:55 pm
Lakki Marwat: A policeman was hurt when armed men attacked a patrolling party on Manjiwala link road in Pakistan's Lakki Marwat region on Wednesday, media reports said on Saturday.
Pakistan: Flood victims killed in alleged 'police firing'
Oct 08, 2022, at 09:36 pm
Quetta: One flood victim was killed in an alleged police firing during distribution of relief goods by an NGO in the cattle farm area of Jafferabad district of Pakistan on Thursday, media reports said.
Bangladesh: Idol vandalized by miscreants in Hindu temple in Jhenaidah
Oct 08, 2022, at 08:26 pm
Dhaka: Police are currently trying to find out the vandals who allegedly desecrated the idol of a deity at a Hindu temple in Jhenaidah's Shailkupa Upaliza in Bangladesh.
Nepal Airlines to sell 5 Chinese planes which are not fit for flying
Oct 08, 2022, at 07:28 pm
Nepal Airlines, facing losses, has decided to sell five of its Chinese-made aircraft as nobody wants to lease them, media reports said on Saturday.
All LTTE detainees to be freed: Sri Lankan PM
Oct 08, 2022, at 07:19 pm
Colombo: All remaining Tamil Tiger detainees will be released and the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) will be repealed, Sri Lankan Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena said in remarks published on Saturday.
Pakistan: Eight Sheikhupura men stabbed to death in sleep
Oct 08, 2022, at 05:26 pm
Sheikhupura: At least eight people were stabbed to death with axes while they were sleeping in the farms in a village near Sheikhupura in Pakistan, media reports said on Saturday.
Pakistan: Armed men kidnap GB minister, 2 foreigners
Oct 08, 2022, at 04:35 pm
Skardu: Unknown armed men, who demanded the release of their accomplices from jail, kidnapped a Gilgit-Baltistan minister and two foreigners from the Babusar Road of Pakistan, media reports said on Saturday.
Pakistan: Balochistan witnessing spike in Malaria cases
Oct 07, 2022, at 07:11 pm
Quetta: Pakistan's Balochistan is witnessing a rise in Malaria as 2,434 cases of the disease were registered from six districts of the region in the past 24 hours, media reports said on Friday.
Sri Lanka: 82 Jaffna students get Chinese scholarship
Oct 07, 2022, at 06:32 pm
Colombo: China has given away scholarships amounting to Rs 4.3 million to 82 students of Jaffna University.
Bangladesh: Chinese national booked for promoting obscenity through mobile app
Oct 07, 2022, at 05:55 pm
Bangladesh police have booked a Chinese national and four others for making millions illegally in Bangladesh by promoting obscenity through a mobile app, media reports said on Friday.
Afghanistan: Mortar shell explosion leaves a child dead in Paktika
Oct 07, 2022, at 03:08 pm
Paktika: At least one child died and two others were hurt as a mortar shell exploded in eastern Afghan province of Paktika, media reports said on Friday.
Pakistan: Grenade attack on tribal elder's house leave five injured
Oct 06, 2022, at 11:20 pm
Hub: A grenade attack on the house of a tribal elder in Hub town of Pakistan has left five members of a family, including women and children, critically injured, media reports said on Thursday.
Pakistan:Attock jail employees rape, harass women visitors, claims report
Oct 06, 2022, at 11:15 pm
Rawalpindi: The Provincial Intelligence Centre (PIC), in a report, has accused some Attock district jail employees in Pakistan of raping and sexually harassing women who visit to meet prisoners, media reports said on Thursday.
Pakistan: Norwegian national goes missing in Punjab
Oct 06, 2022, at 11:06 pm
A Norwegian national of Pakistani origin has gone missing in Punjab province, media reports said on Thursday.
Ten years of Afghan economic growth, reversed in just 12 months: UNDP
Oct 06, 2022, at 09:11 pm
New York: A year on from the Taliban takeover in Kabul, Afghanistan is gripped by “cascading crises”, including a crippled economy that humanitarian aid alone cannot address, according to a new report from the UN Development Programme (UNDP) on Wednesday.
Pakistan: Teacher rapes teen student in Karachi, arrested
Oct 06, 2022, at 06:25 am
Karachi: The police on Wednesday arrested a school teacher in Pakistan's Karachi city for allegedly raping a 14-year-old student, media reports said.
Afghanistan: Blast rocks MoI mosque, 4 die
Oct 06, 2022, at 04:44 am
Kabul: At least four people died and 25 others were hurt as a blast rocked the mosque of the Ministry of Interior (MoI) in Afghanistan capital city Kabul on Wednesday.
Chinese govt imposes ban on residents from leaving Xinjiang to tackle COVID-19 situation
Oct 06, 2022, at 04:22 am
Xinjiang: The Chinese government has imposed a ban on residents from leaving Xinjiang region amid rise in COVID-19 cases.
Pakistan: To avert ‘second wave of death’, UN raises funding appeal to $816 million
Oct 05, 2022, at 10:40 pm
New York: Battling what the top UN aid official in Pakistan has warned is a “second wave of death and destruction”, following catastrophic flooding since June that left a third of the country submerged, UN humanitarians on Tuesday raised their funding request from $160 million to $816 million.
Pakistan Army kills seven terrorists during two different operations in KP
Oct 05, 2022, at 03:31 pm
Islamabad: The Pakistani Army have killed seven terrorists in two different operations in parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Tuesday, media reports said.
U.S citizen goes missing in Afghanistan, claims family member
Oct 05, 2022, at 05:52 am
An Afghan-American national, who had travelled to Afghanistan for working purpose, has been missing for the past eight weeks, his family member said on Tuesday.
Oct 05, 2022, at 05:39 am
Hindu community members in Pakistan's Kalat town recently marched on the roads to demonstrate against what they said was the alleged desecration of the remains of a Hindu woman’s body burnt in the burning ghat.
Pakistan:KP govt delays salary payment to its employees, triggering financial crisis worries
Oct 05, 2022, at 05:36 am
Peshawar: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government failed to pay the September salary to its employees on Saturday, triggering doubt over the financial state of the region.
Japan’s Daikin to dump China for AC parts: Reports
Oct 05, 2022, at 05:28 am
Tokyo: Japanese electronics major Daikin industries is planning to dump China as it has failed to supply parts for manufacturing of Air conditioners, media reports said on Tuesday.
Unknown gunmen kill dead Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl activist
Oct 05, 2022, at 05:11 am
Bajaur: Unknown gunmen shot dead a senior Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl activist in Mamond tehsil of Bajaur tribal district of Pakistan on Saturday, media reports said on Tuesday.