Japan to keep supporting Sri Lanka
Jul 02, 2022, at 08:28 pm
Colombo/UNI: Japan has said that it will continue to support development activities in Sri Lanka, a day after Tokyo's envoy was quoted as saying that it will not be possible to provide further economic aid to the economically-beleaguered country.
Jul 02, 2022, at 07:17 pm
Dhaka: The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 on Thursday sentenced one person to death penalty and three others to imprisonment till death for committing war crimes at Lakhai Upzila in Habiganj during the Liberation War of 1971.
In Afghanistan, women take their lives out of desperation, Human Rights Council hears
Jul 02, 2022, at 06:02 pm
New York: The situation for women is so desperate in Afghanistan that they are committing suicide at a rate of one or two every day, the Human Rights Council has heard.
Afghanistan: Taliban religious gathering emphasis on beheading critics
Jul 02, 2022, at 02:23 pm
Kabul: Mawlawi Mujib Rahman Ansari, a vigilante, bearded clergyman, a preacher in a mosque in northwestern Afghanistan’s Herat province, who is also an attendee of the Taliban’s religious grand assembly has said people who will rebel against the Islamic regime should be beheaded.
Jul 02, 2022, at 05:46 am
Brussels/Beijing: NATO has described China as one of its strategic priorities for the first time and even said Beijing’s ambitions and its “coercive policies” challenge the Western bloc’s “interests, security and values”.
Jul 02, 2022, at 05:37 am
Islamabad: Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan, who was ousted from power earlier this year, reportedly sold three watches from Toshakhana collectively worth more than Rs 154 million to a local watch dealer.
Pakistan: Imran Khan warns Punjab police, bureaucrats not to follow ‘illegal’ govt orders
Jul 02, 2022, at 05:27 am
Islamabad: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chairman and former Prime Minister Imran Khan attempted to create a stir in the nation once again when he asked the Punjab police and bureaucrats not to follow “illegal orders” of the provincial government during the upcoming local government elections.
GSP Plus: Pakistan refuses to abolish death penalty
Jul 02, 2022, at 05:24 am
Islamabad: The Pakistan government has refuted to ratify the “tough conditions” placed by the European Union (EU) including the abolition of death penalty for the extension of new Generalised Scheme of Preferences Plus (GSP+) status for 2024 due to “legal and political implications”, media reports said.
Pakistan: SHO, ASI land in jail for staged encounter
Jul 01, 2022, at 11:45 pm
Dadu: The court of the second civil judge of Mehar on Tuesday sent an SHO and an ASI to jail after finding them guilty of staging an encounter in the jurisdiction of B-Section police station in Pakistan to arrest two suspects nearly two months back, media reports said on Friday.
Pakistan: Mob sets suspected robber on fire
Jul 01, 2022, at 11:42 pm
Karachi: A mob recently shot a suspected robber and then set him on fire in Pakistan's Karachi city, an episode yet again showcasing another incident of vigilante justice in the country.
Pakistan: Khyber SHO, son arrested with 13kg heroin
Jul 01, 2022, at 11:42 pm
Peshawar: Pakistani police on Tuesday arrested a station house officer belonging to the Khyber district and his son, also a policeman, and 13 kilogrammes of heroin was recovered from them, media reports said on Friday.
Pakistan: Two cops, one health worker die as unidentified people attack polio vaccination team
Jul 01, 2022, at 11:38 pm
North Waziristan: At least two policemen and a health worker died and a passer-by sustained bullet injuries when unidentified gunmen attacked a polio vaccination team in North Waziristan tribal district of Pakistan on Tuesday, media reports said.
Myanmar: Shocking toll on children must be spur to action, says UN rights expert
Jul 01, 2022, at 11:30 pm
New York: Myanmar’s military junta is responsible for shocking violence against children caught up in the bloody aftermath of last February’s coup, a top independent Human Rights Council-appointed investigator said on Wednesday.
Pakistan: TTP refuses to budge from demand for Fata merger reversal
Jul 01, 2022, at 10:23 pm
Islamabad: The proscribed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has stated that the group would not back down from its demand for the reversal of the merger of erstwhile Fata with the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, media reports said.
Pakistan: Protest takes place against abduction of 8-year-old boy
Jul 01, 2022, at 10:21 pm
Sukkur/Pakistan: The Hindu community and civil society of Khairpur on Thursday protested against the abduction of a Hindu boy in Sukkur city.
Xi Jinping arrives in Hong Kong to mark 25 years of handover
Jul 01, 2022, at 02:39 pm
Beijing/UNI: Hong Kong will mark 25 years since the city was handed back by the British to China, BBC reported on Friday.
Political or scientific: China’s patriotic COVID-19 medication
Jun 30, 2022, at 09:45 pm
Beijing: Reuters reports that Chinese health regulators have authorized TCM medications, including the Lianhua-Qingwen capsules, for use by Covid patients despite a lack of valid clinical evidence.
11 Afghan Sikhs arriving from Kabul post attack on Karte Parwan Gurudwara
Jun 30, 2022, at 09:30 pm
New Delhi/UNI: A group of 11 Afghan Sikhs will arrive in India Thursday from Kabul, days after the terror attack on the Karte Parwan Gurdwara in which one Afghan Sikh and an Afghan guard were killed.
Sri Lanka seeks urgent oil supplies from Russia
Jun 30, 2022, at 09:23 pm
Colombo/UNI: Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has reportedly written to Russian President Vladimir Putin seeking urgent supplies of oil for his economically-battered country, a newspaper reported on Thursday.
Cambodian PM Hun Sen sets date for general election
Jun 29, 2022, at 09:59 pm
Phnom Penh/UNI/Xinhua: Cambodia sets Jul 23, 2023 as the date for the seventh National Assembly election, according to a decision signed by Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen on Wednesday.
Amid crisis, Sri Lanka plans to buy fuel shipments from India
Jun 29, 2022, at 09:54 pm
Colombo/UNI: In a step close to integrating energy security with India, Sri Lanka plans to buy four shipments of fuel- 40,000 tonnes each- from India on cash payment to enjoy discounts on bulk purchases.
China-Japan relationship heating up with maritime disputes over islands and alliances
Jun 29, 2022, at 05:11 am
Beijing: Tension between Japan and China has heated up as both countries are building up their militaries and boosting maritime activity.
Jun 29, 2022, at 05:04 am
Kathmandu: A Nepali civic group named Rastriya Ekata Abhiyan recently demonstrated in Kathmandu against China for unilaterally laying a 150-meter-long wire fence within no-man’s land in Gorkha, media reports said.
Tibet: China decides to relocate 17,555 people from high-altitude places in Nagqu City
Jun 28, 2022, at 11:24 pm
Chinese authorities have decided to relocate 17,555 people from high-altitude places in Nagqu City, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, media reports said on Tuesday.
Pakistan: Two policemen, polio worker shot dead during inoculation drive in North Waziristan
Jun 28, 2022, at 10:54 pm
Islamabad: Unknown gunmen shot dead two police officers assigned to polio vaccination teams and a polio worker in North Waziristan's Datta Khel area of Pakistan on Tuesday, media reports said.
Pakistan: Karachi police baton-charge residents protesting against load shedding
Jun 28, 2022, at 08:45 pm
Karachi: The Karachi Police resorted to lathi charge on protesting residents, who were demonstrating against load shedding trouble, of Lyari near the Mauripur road of the city on Tuesday, media reports said.
Xi Jinping's close ally Wang Xiaohong appointed as China's new public security chief
Jun 28, 2022, at 06:22 am
Beijing: Wang Xiaohong, a close ally of the Chinese President Xi Jinping, has been appointed as China’s new public security chief, media reports said on Monday.
China sends 29 warplanes to Taiwan's ADIZ
Jun 28, 2022, at 06:12 am
Taipei: China recently sent 29 warplanes to Taiwan's self-declared air defense identification zone (ADIZ), media reports said on Monday.
China indicts two Taiwanese officials on spying charges
Jun 28, 2022, at 06:08 am
Beijing/Taipei: China has indicted two Taiwanese officials on national security charges after accusing them of accepting bribes from a known Chinese spy to set up an espionage ring in Taiwan.
Few newly introduced Hong Kong textbooks claim the region was never a British colony
Jun 28, 2022, at 06:02 am
Hong Kong: Few newly introduced Hong Kong textbooks have triggered a controversy as they claimed that the region was never a British colony.