Economics Nobel awarded to 3 'for research on banks and financial crises'
Oct 10, 2022, at 09:22 pm
Stockholm: The Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to Ben Bernanke, Douglas Diamond, Philip Dybvig “for research on banks and financial crises.”
Defiant Taiwan moving away from China
Oct 10, 2022, at 08:12 pm
Taipei: Taiwan on Monday marked the "Double Ten" or 10 October, the self-ruled island's national day.
75 missiles fired in ongoing attack: Ukrainian military
Oct 10, 2022, at 08:08 pm
Kyiv: Ukraine cities came under Russian missile attack on Monday as the war entered 229th day, the country's military chief said 75 missiles have so far been fired in the sudden wave of attacks.
Ukraine: Kyiv hit by multiple explosions
Oct 10, 2022, at 07:10 pm
Kyiv/UNI: Massive missile blasts rocked the Ukrainian capital Kyiv Monday morning including one near President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's office.
Pakistan: Two terrorists killed during exchange of fire in North Waziristan
Oct 10, 2022, at 03:18 pm
Islamabad: At least two terrorists were killed during an intense exchange of fire in the general area of North Waziristan District, media reports said on Sunday.
Pakistan: Four-year-old raped, murdered in Bannu
Oct 10, 2022, at 02:48 pm
Bannu: A four-year-old girl has been allegedly raped and then murdered in Pakistan's Bannu district, media reports said on Monday.
Pakistan: Islamabad shopping mall fire brought under control
Oct 10, 2022, at 04:53 am
The fire, which broke out at Islamabad's Centaurus Mall in Pakistan, has been brought under control, media reports said.
Oct 10, 2022, at 04:05 am
Washington: Several Republican House lawmakers sent a letter to Biden Cabinet Secretaries Antony Blinken and Merrick Garland and demanded a response on reported Chinese police presence in New York City.
DR Congo: China sends criminal experts to halt kidnappings
Oct 10, 2022, at 03:52 am
Beijing: Beijing has decided to deploy criminal investigators to help halt kidnappings in the Democratic Republic of the Congo after alerts were issued regarding the safety of Chinese citizens working in the African nation’s high-stakes mining industry.
Taiwan foresees more Chinese coercion, intimidation during Xi Jinping's new term
Oct 10, 2022, at 03:48 am
Taipei: A senior Taiwanese minister feels that China might increase its coercion and intimidation to achieve its goal of bringing the island under Beijing's control once President Xi Jinping assumes the third term in office.
Oct 10, 2022, at 03:42 am
Washington: The US Department of Defense released the names of “Chinese military companies” operating directly or indirectly in the United States in accordance with the statutory requirement of Section 1260H of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021.
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.
57 children poisoned by an unknown substance in a Mexico school: Report
Oct 09, 2022, at 07:15 pm
As many as 57 students studying in a rural secondary school have fallen sick after poisoning by an unknown substance in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, Reuters reported citing local authorities.
Vladimir Putin orders intensified measures to protect Crimea-related facilities
Oct 09, 2022, at 05:50 pm
Moscow/UNI: Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree to strengthen measures for protecting transport crossing through the Kerch Strait, the power grid connecting Crimea and the main gas pipeline to the peninsula.
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.
Reconsider travel to Pakistan due to terrorism and sectarian violence: US tells citizens in advisory
Oct 08, 2022, at 09:45 pm
The United States has issued travel advisory to people of Pakistan and asked them to reconsider travelling to the country due to 'terrorism and sectarian violence'.
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.
Oct 08, 2022, at 08:38 pm
Lagos/UNI: At least 24 people have been killed and 18,000 others displaced by floods in the rainy season starting from May in Nigeria's northern state of Katsina, a relief agency official 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.
US: New York emergency over migrants
Oct 08, 2022, at 06:39 pm
New York: New York City Mayor Eric Adams has declared a state of emergency to address a "crisis situation" over an influx of migrants.
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.
Nobel Peace Prize winners shine spotlight on ‘the power of civil society to promote peace’
Oct 08, 2022, at 03:55 pm
New York: The human rights advocates from Russia, Ukraine and Belarus who have been awarded this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, represent “the oxygen of democracy” said the UN chief on Friday, in a message of congratulations to the three winners.
Teen stabbed to death in Israel less than a year after he migrated from India
Oct 08, 2022, at 03:47 pm
A teen, who had recently immigrated to Israel from India with his family, was stabbed to death in Kiryat Shmona city on Thursday, media reports said on Saturday.