China never interferes in U.S. internal affairs: Chinese FM
Sep 12, 2020, at 03:09 pm
Moscow/Xinhua: China has never interfered in the internal affairs of the United States, Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Friday at a press conference after talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
Bangladesh: Police recover severed human leg from dustbin in Dhaka
Sep 12, 2020, at 02:34 pm
Dhaka: Police on Friday recovered a severed human leg from a dustbin in Bangladesh capital city Dhaka.
Afghanistan: Blast rocks wedding ceremony in Khost, four killed
Sep 12, 2020, at 02:23 pm
Kabul: A motorcycle, which was embedded with explosive devices, rushed through a wedding ceremony in Khost province of Afghanistan and left at least four people killed.
Pakistan: Woman gang-raped in Lahore, 12 suspects arrested amid nationwide outrage
Sep 12, 2020, at 12:25 am
Lahore: Police have arrested 12 suspected people over the alleged gang-rape of a woman on the Lahore-Sialkot motorway in Pakistan's Punjab region, media reports said.
Old habits die hard: China's tryst with border disputes and expansionism
Sep 11, 2020, at 11:23 pm
Earlier in September, US President Donald Trump said the country was ready to help both India and China fix their border dispute as the two most populous nations engaged in activities deemed 'attempted transgression' by both New Delhi and Beijing.
Motorbike bombing at wedding party kills 4, wounds 8 in E Afghanistan
Sep 11, 2020, at 06:38 pm
Khost, Afghanistan/Xinhua: Four people were killed and eight others injured as a motorbike bomb struck a wedding party in eastern Afghanistan's Khost province on Thursday, provincial police spokesman Haider Adel said Friday.
UN denounces Kabul attack targeting Afghan Vice President
Sep 11, 2020, at 06:30 pm
New York: The United Nations has strongly condemned Wednesday's attack in the Afghan capital Kabul, targeting the official convoy of the country's First Vice President, Amrullah Saleh.
Taliban kills 16 afghan servicemen in Nangarhar province: Source
Sep 11, 2020, at 06:19 pm
Kabul/Sputnik: The Taliban Islamist movement has attacked positions of the Afghan security forces in the eastern province of Nangarhar, leaving 16 servicemen dead and some more injured, a local source told Sputnik on Friday.
Bangladesh: Death toll in Narayanganj mosque blast touches 31
Sep 11, 2020, at 04:15 pm
Dhaka: The death toll due to the explosion of the air-conditioner in a mosque in Bangladesh's Narayanganj region has now touched 31, media reports said.
Afghanistan: Security officials rescue kidnapped 10-year-old boy
Sep 11, 2020, at 04:01 pm
Kabul: Security officials have rescued a 10-year-old who was kidnapped from Afghanistan's Injeel district in Herat province.
Sep 10, 2020, at 03:45 am
Beijing: A Uyghur doctor, who is currently in exile, has revealed that he was forced to perform operations on women in China as part of the country’s attempts to control its ethnic Turkic minority population.
PoK: People protest against construction of dams by China, Pakistan
Sep 10, 2020, at 03:31 am
The people of Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) are irked by the construction of two mega dams by China and Pakistan in the region.
Pakistan is moving from US towards China's sphere: Ayesha Siddiqa
Sep 10, 2020, at 02:43 am
Islamabad: A top defence analyst has said Pakistan is slowly drifting away from the US towards China as Beijing is the only hope for Islamabad for economic assistance.
Two Afghan police officers killed in Taliban attack in Helmand province
Sep 10, 2020, at 01:38 am
Kabul/Sputnik: At least two Afghan police officers were killed and two civilians were injured in a Taliban attack in the Nawa district of Helmand on Wednesday, a security source said.
Bangladesh registers 1,827 new COVID cases, 41 deaths
Sep 10, 2020, at 01:08 am
Dhaka/UNI: Bangladesh reported 1827 new cases of COVID-19 during the past 24 hours while 41 lives were lost in the same period.
Bangladesh: Boat capsizes, 10 dead
Sep 10, 2020, at 01:03 am
Dhaka/UNI: At least 10 bodies were recovered after a boat carrying dozens of people sank in the river of Gumai in Bangladesh's Netrokona district, some 158 km north of the capital Dhaka, on Wednesday.
Blasphemy charges: Pakistani court sentences Christian man to death
Sep 09, 2020, at 02:29 pm
Lahore: A Court in Pakistan's Lahore city on Tuesday sentenced a Christian man to death for having committed "blasphemy", media reports said.
Bangladesh AC explosion: Death toll touches 28
Sep 09, 2020, at 02:11 pm
Dhaka: The death toll in the air-conditioner blasts incident at a Narayanganj mosque in Bangladesh has reached 28 as another victim died on Tuesday, media reports said.
Poor conditions rife in Pakistani women’s prisons: Human Rights Watch
Sep 09, 2020, at 04:30 am
Islamabad: Pakistan’s Human Rights Ministry has issued a report that says women in prison face poor conditions and receive inadequate medical care, Human Rights Watch has said.
Sep 09, 2020, at 02:02 am
Beijing: A noted scholar has claimed that China’s communist regime embezzles the COVID-19 crisis to muzzle the voice of dissents in Xinjiang and Tibet.
Sri Lanka to replace brakes on faulty Chinese train compartments
Sep 08, 2020, at 11:20 pm
Colombo: The Sri Lankan Railway department has said the brakes on faulty Chinese train compartments will be replaced, media reports said.
Sep 08, 2020, at 06:15 pm
Thailand, a key ally of China, is slowly pushing back against Beijing and recently the country decided to not only postpone the procurement of two submarines from China but has also shelved the Chinese proposal for building a canal in the Bay of Bengal replacing it with its own project, media reports said.
Sep 08, 2020, at 06:01 pm
Islamabad: Lieutenant General (retired) Asim Saleem Bajwa last week decided to resign from his post as the special assistant to the prime minister on information and broadcast after an investigative report alleged corruption scams against him.
Japan's record GDP contraction revised down to annualized 28.1 pct in April-June quarter
Sep 08, 2020, at 03:51 pm
Tokyo/Xinhua: Japan's economy in the April-June period shrank an annualized real 28.1 percent from the previous quarter, downwardly revised from the 27.8 percent contraction initially reported, the government said in a report on Tuesday.
Afghanistan: Roadside mine blast leaves one dead in Kandahar
Sep 07, 2020, at 09:51 pm
Kandahar: At least one person was killed as a roadside mine exploded in Afghanistan's southern province of Kandahar on Monday, media reports said.
Chinese deep-sea trawlers arrive in Karachi, Pakistani fishermen plan protest
Sep 07, 2020, at 04:33 am
Islamabad: Pakistani fishermen are planning to protest against the arrival of Chinese deep-sea trawlers in Karachi city, media reports said.
Bangladesh parliament adopts condolence motion regarding Pranab Mukherjee
Sep 07, 2020, at 04:10 am
Dhaka/UNI: Bangladesh Jatiya Sangsad on Sunday unanimously adopted a condolence motion expressing profound grief over the death of former Indian President Pranab Mukherjee and other departed souls including two lawmakers of the present parliament.
Bangladesh: Mosque explosion death toll rises to 24
Sep 07, 2020, at 04:05 am
Dhaka/UNI: Three more people who sustained burn injuries due to an explosion at a mosque in Narayanganj, died on Sunday, taking the death toll from the incident to 24.
Chinese language imposition: Mongolians protest against China in Tokyo
Sep 07, 2020, at 01:59 am
Tokyo: Around 35 ethnic Mongolians living in Japan on Saturday demonstrated against China in Tokyo city against the policy to forcibly push Mandarin language education in Inner Mongolia region.
Vice governor of China's Qinghai Province under investigation
Sep 07, 2020, at 01:18 am
Beijing/Xinhua: Wen Guodong, vice governor of northwest China's Qinghai Province, has been put under disciplinary and supervisory investigation by the country's top anti-graft body for suspected severe violations of disciplines and laws.