Pakistan Floods: Bilwal Bhutto Zardari slams ex-PM Imran Khan for holding concerts in KP, Punjab
Sep 05, 2022, at 03:33 am
Pakistan Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has slammed ex-Pakistan PM Imran Khan for holding "concerts" in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab at a time when the nation is ravaged by devastating floods.
Sep 05, 2022, at 01:47 am
New Delhi: Bangladesh PM SHeikh Hasina, who is scheduled to arrive in India on Monday, has revealed that she was once a secret resident of Delhi`s posh Pandara Road, where she lived with her children under an assumed identity trying to escape the attention of those who assassinated her father Sheikh Mujibur Rehman, the man who liberated the country from the cruel hands of Pakistan rule.
Pakistan: Floods cause up to $12.5bln in damage
Sep 04, 2022, at 11:48 pm
Islamabad: Flood damage in Pakistan could reach up to $12.5 billion, Pakistani media reported on Sunday, citing preliminary estimates from the government.
Mikhail Gorbachev laid to rest in Moscow
Sep 04, 2022, at 08:34 pm
Moscow/UNI: The last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev was buried at Moscow’s Novodevichy Cemetery on Saturday.
Pakistan floods leave nearly 1,300 people dead, relief ops continue
Sep 04, 2022, at 06:23 pm
Islamabad/IBNS: The catastrophic flood in Pakistan has left nearly 1,300 people dead even as the relief operations continue, media reports said.
Blast kills 3 children in Afghanistan
Sep 04, 2022, at 04:28 pm
Lashkar Gah, Afghanistan/UNI: Three children lost their lives and three others sustained injuries as an explosive device went off in the Nad Ali district of Afghanistan's southern Helmand province, provincial police spokesman Ahmad Jan said.
US: Stolen plane lands on field after pilot threatened to crash into Walmart store
Sep 04, 2022, at 02:56 pm
A pilot of a small plane, flying in circles for more than five hours and threatening to crash into a Walmart store in Tupelo, Mississippi, has been arrested after he landed safely on a field, Governor Tate Reeves said on Saturday.
Taiwan shoots down Chinese drone near Kinmen Island
Sep 04, 2022, at 01:56 am
Taipei: Taiwan downed a civilian drone after weeks of complaints about incursions by unmanned aerial vehicles from China, heightening tension between the two nations.
US: Pilot threatens to crash plane into Walmart store in Mississippi
Sep 04, 2022, at 01:38 am
A pilot of a small plane, flying in circles for more than an hour, threatened to crash into a Walmart store in Tupelo, Mississippi on Saturday, media reports said, citing local police.
US okays $1.1bn arms sale to Taiwan, vexes China
Sep 04, 2022, at 12:19 am
Washington: The US has agreed to sell $1.1 billion worth of arms to Taiwan, provoking China.
Pakistan floods: Death toll touches 1,265
Sep 03, 2022, at 11:21 pm
Islamabad: Pakistan's death toll due to ongoing flooding has now touched 1,265 as 57 more people died in the past 24 hours, media reports said.
Pakistan: Ex-FC official held in Battagram over ‘blasphemy’
Sep 03, 2022, at 11:18 pm
Battagram: A local court in Pakistan has sent a former Frontier Constabulary official to the Central Prison, Haripur, on judicial remand in a blasphemy case, media reports said on Saturday.
Bangladesh BRT project mishap: Chinese contractor found responsible for deaths
Sep 03, 2022, at 10:16 pm
Dhaka: An investigation committee has found that the Chinese contractor was responsible for the crash of girders of the Bud Rapid Transit (BRT) project here which killed five people.
Pakistan: More than 6.4 million in ‘dire need’ after unprecedented floods
Sep 03, 2022, at 05:52 pm
New York: The scale of the humanitarian crisis in Pakistan is unprecedented, with a third of the country under water, UN humanitarians warned on Friday.
Ukraine: ‘Physical integrity’ of Zaporizhzhya nuclear plant ‘has been violated several times’
Sep 03, 2022, at 05:47 pm
New York: Further damage to the embattled Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine “cannot” be allowed to happen, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has said.
World food prices drop for fifth consecutive month: FAO
Sep 03, 2022, at 05:26 pm
World food prices have fallen for a fifth consecutive month but are still nearly eight per cent higher than a year ago, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reported on Friday.
Former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa returns to Sri Lanka
Sep 03, 2022, at 02:30 pm
Colombo: Former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who had fled the nation in July amid protest, returned to Sri Lanka on Friday, media reports said.
Rishi Sunak vs Liz Truss for British PM: Voting ends, result tomorrow
Sep 03, 2022, at 06:43 am
London/IBNS: Voting to replace Boris Johnson as the Conservative Party leader and the British Prime Minister closed on Friday evening.
Ukraine troops using artillery made by Pakistan: Reports
Sep 03, 2022, at 04:44 am
Kyiv: Ukraine Army's need for ammunition amid the war with Russia is surprisingly met by Pakistan, a Twitter handle has claimed.
Pakistan: Explosion rocks Kalat region of flood-ravaged Balochistan
Sep 03, 2022, at 04:27 am
Quetta, Pakistan: Unidentified terrorists detonated an improvised explosive device at the working site of Pakistan Petroleum Limited on the outskirts of Kalat region of Balochistan on Wednesday which left one local employee dead, media reports said on Friday.
Pakistan: SHO, three constables suspended for ‘torturing’ citizen
Sep 03, 2022, at 03:35 am
Rawalpindi, Pakistan: A station house officer (SHO) and his three subordinates in Pakistan have been suspended for allegedly torturing a citizen, media reports said on Friday.
Pakistan: 32 Balochistan districts declared ‘calamity-hit’
Sep 03, 2022, at 03:30 am
Quetta, Pakistan: The Balochistan government has declared 32 out of the total 34 provincial districts “calamity-hit”.
Drug seizure: Two Pakistanis, six others arrested in Saudi Arabia
Sep 03, 2022, at 03:15 am
Riyadh: Saudi Arabian authorities have arrested eight people, including two Pakistanis, after they busted a drug smuggling bid in what is being termed as the country's biggest operation.
Confidence in the China market falters amid COVID-19 restrictions, geopolitical tensions: Survey
Sep 03, 2022, at 02:31 am
Washington/Beijing: Optimism about the future business outlook in China has dropped to a record low according to an annual membership survey from the US-China Business Council, an organization representing more than 270 US companies that do business in China.
Xi Jinping wishes to defeat 'Colour Revolutions' by beating Western ideas
Sep 03, 2022, at 01:48 am
Beijing: Chinese president Xi Jinping is trying to beat “Colour Revolutions” by defeating the Western constitutional democracy promoted by the US, media reports said.
Surge in electricity consumption: Manufacturing activity falls in China
Sep 03, 2022, at 12:41 am
Shanghai: China's electric consumption has increased amid record heat waves, forcing manufacturing activity to come to a halt.
Japanese companies slowly moving out of China amid growing crisis
Sep 03, 2022, at 12:34 am
Beijing: Several Japanese production facilities have started moving out of China as Beijing continues to follow its Zero COVID-19 policy and even the friction on the Taiwan straits heightening tension in the region.
Afghanistan: Suicide blast inside mosque leaves pro-Taliban cleric dead
Sep 02, 2022, at 10:46 pm
Herat: A suicide blast inside a mosque in Afghanistan's Herat province on Friday left a high-profile pro-Taliban cleric as well as civilians dead, media reports said.
Lufthansa cancels several Friday flights
Sep 02, 2022, at 10:40 pm
Berlin: After months of attempts to reach a deal between German carrier Lufthansa and its employees union over salary issues, the carrier canceled almost all its passenger and cargo flights on Friday, as per media reports.
Myanmar: Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi given three more years in prison on election fraud charges
Sep 02, 2022, at 08:18 pm
Yangon: A Myanmar court has sentenced ousted leader and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi to a further three years in prison on election fraud charges, media reports said on Friday.