Sri Lanka: Prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, 2 others to contest for president's seat tomorrow
Jul 19, 2022, at 11:40 pm
Colombo: Acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe, Anura Kumara Dissanayaka and Dullas Allahapperuma will contest for the presidency on Wednesday, a seat which became vacant after Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled from the nation amid protests.
Pakistan: 3 people, including FC soldier, die in Quetta grenade blast
Jul 19, 2022, at 10:23 pm
Quetta: At least three people, including a Frontier Corps (FC) soldier, were hurt in a grenade attack in Quetta city of Pakistan on Sunday, media reports said.
Pakistan: Man caught on camera harassing burqa-clad woman in Islamabad
Jul 19, 2022, at 10:12 pm
Islamabad: Pakistani capital Islamabad seems to be becoming unsafe for women and it was evident in the way a man was caught on camera harassing a woman while she was walking on a street.
Ranil Wickremesinghe seeks UK assistance to probe 2019 Easter Sunday blasts
Jul 19, 2022, at 06:57 pm
Colombo: Acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe has sought the assistance of the UK government and its intelligence in solving the Easter Sunday blast incident of 2019.
Bangladesh: National Human Rights Commission condemns recent attack on Hindu community members
Jul 19, 2022, at 04:09 pm
Dhaka: The National Human Rights Commission of Bangladesh has condemned the recent attack on Hindu community members in the country and said such an incident in a secular country is not acceptable.
Pakistan: Boat capsizes in Indus, 19 people drown
Jul 19, 2022, at 03:37 pm
Islamabad: At least 19 people were drowned and several others went missing when a boat capsized in River Indus near Machka region of Pakistan on Monday, media reports said.
Duterte rail projects: Philippines scraps Chinese loan deals
Jul 19, 2022, at 06:19 am
Manila, Philippines: A transport official has said Chinese loans for three multi billion-peso railway projects that were to be major legacies of former President Rodrigo Duterte under his “Build, Build, Build” programme have been scrapped.
Sri Lankan crisis highlights risk for Chinese firms investing overseas, feel experts
Jul 19, 2022, at 06:08 am
Beijing: Analysts have cautioned the current political turmoil in Sri Lanka is emerging as a warning sign for Chinese companies that are planning to invest in overseas markets.
China: Huludao's health system buckles under Covid debt strain
Jul 19, 2022, at 05:57 am
Beijing: The Chinese city of Huludao is feeling the heat of COVID-19 on local health systems with local authorities saying debts were rising far faster than their capacity to repay them.
Democracy requires moral, not military strength, says ex-Pakistan PM Imran Khan
Jul 19, 2022, at 05:26 am
Islamabad: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Saturday deplored the imbalance in civil-military relations in the country when he blamed previous PPP and PML-N governments for ceding space to the army to ‘save their skin’ in corruption cases.
Pakistan: PPP demands protection for Pakhtuns in Sindh
Jul 19, 2022, at 05:23 am
Islamabad: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader and former federal minister Khawaja Mohammad Khan Hoti has directed the Sindh government to protect Pakhtuns residing in the region.
Laos default will now give momentum to Chinese debt trap policy
Jul 19, 2022, at 04:51 am
Beijing: Laos, the only landlocked country in Southeast Asia, is currently facing an intense economic crisis and there seems to be no respite from it without some form of a Chinese bailout or debt forgiveness, media reports said.
Chinese embassy in Nepal terms US diplomat's Beijing ‘disinformation campaign’ comment as 'baseless'
Jul 19, 2022, at 04:17 am
Beijing/Kathmandu: China has reacted strongly against US ambassador nominee for Nepal in which he criticised China for its disinformation campaign and termed his remarks “baseless”.
Thailand: Three Uyghurs flee from detention centre
Jul 19, 2022, at 04:08 am
Bangkok: Authorities in Thailand have started searching for three Uyghur men who escaped from an immigration detention centre in the country earlier this week, a police investigator said.
Pakistan: JUI-F leader gunned down in North Waziristan
Jul 18, 2022, at 11:02 pm
North Waziristan: Unknown attackers gunned down a local leader of Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl and his colleague near Mirali town in Pakistan on Thursday.
Unidentified gunmen kill counterterrorism officer in Pakistan
Jul 18, 2022, at 11:00 pm
Quetta: Unidentified motorcyclists in Pakistan's Kharan town shot dead counterterrorism officer on Friday, media reports said.
India emerges as top lender to Sri Lanka
Jul 18, 2022, at 08:24 pm
Colombo: India has surpassed China to become the top lender to Sri Lanka after coming to Colombo's rescue in a big way following the island nation's worst economic crisis, a newspaper reported on Monday.
Sri Lanka Crisis: Ranil Wickremesinghe declares state of emergency
Jul 18, 2022, at 03:13 pm
Colombo: Sri Lanka's acting president Ranil Wickremesinghe has declared a State of Emergency across the island nation from Monday.
Pakistan: PTI leader Shahbaz Gill arrested for displaying weapons at polling station
Jul 18, 2022, at 04:29 am
Islamabad: Leader of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and former minister Shahbaz Gill was arrested from Pakistan's Muzaffargarh on Sunday for allegedly carrying and displaying weapons on his visit to polling stations during the by-elections in Punjab.
Bangladesh bound cargo plane crashes in Greece
Jul 18, 2022, at 12:34 am
Dhaka: All eight people on board a cargo plane died when it crashed in Greece.
Sri Lanka is warning sign for countries with high debt levels, says IMF Director
Jul 17, 2022, at 10:19 pm
Colombo: International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva has said Sri Lanka has become a warning sign for those countries with high debt levels and limited policy space.
Sri Lanka is warning sign for countries with high debt levels, says IMF Director
Jul 17, 2022, at 10:17 pm
Colombo: International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva has said Sri Lanka has become a warning sign for those countries with high debt levels and limited policy space.
3-hour power cut announced in Sri Lanka for two days
Jul 17, 2022, at 06:18 pm
Colombo/UNI: As Sri Lanka continues to face an economic crisis, the Public Utilities Commission has approved power cuts for three hours on Monday and Tuesday.
Pakistan Govt-TTP parleys: Parents of APS martyrs move Peshawar High Court
Jul 17, 2022, at 12:04 am
Peshawar, Pakistan: Five mothers of students, who were killed by militants in the 2014 Peshawar Army Public School attack in Pakistan, have moved Peshawar High Court against the ongoing negotiations between the government and proscribed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).
Steps discussed to provide essentials: Sri Lankan president Ranil Wickremesinghe
Jul 16, 2022, at 11:48 pm
Colombo/UNI: Sri Lanka's Acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Saturday said the government has decided to implement an urgent programme to supply fuel, gas and essential food items to the people amid the country's worst economic crisis.
Pakistan: Ethnic tension rises in Sindh
Jul 16, 2022, at 11:38 pm
Islamabad: Ethnic tensions flared up in several districts of Sindh province after the killing of a 35-year-old man at a hotel in Hyderabad a couple of days ago, Dawn reported on Friday.
Pakistan: Former PM Imran Khan unhappy with SC decision
Jul 16, 2022, at 11:35 pm
Islamabad: Former prime minister of Pakistan Imran Khan has termed the decision of the Supreme Court on the ruling of the National Assembly deputy speaker as “heart-wrenching”, Express Tribune reported on Friday.
Sri Lanka fuel crisis: Postal services suspended for four nations
Jul 16, 2022, at 10:50 pm
Colombo: Sri Lankan authorities have temporarily suspended accepting the postal shipments for the USA, Netherlands, Israel and Russian due to the suspension and restriction of flights to Sri Lanka due to fuel crisis, media reports said on Saturday.
Jul 16, 2022, at 10:47 pm
Ankara: Several activists from Union of International East Turkistan NGOs on Thursday raised the concern of the Uyghurs by infiltrating a volleyball stadium in Turkey and disrupting the scheduled game between China and Italy, media reports said.
China's protection for Makki puts Pakistan's FATF hope in trouble
Jul 16, 2022, at 10:29 pm
Beijing: Pakistan's hope to come out of grey list might face a hurdle after China blocked the joint proposal by India and the US to list Pakistan-based terrorist Abdul Rehman Makki as a global terrorist under the Al-Qaeda Sanctions Committee of the Security Council.