All updates: Lanka PM's house set ablaze, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to resign next Wednesday
Jul 10, 2022, at 04:50 am
Colombo/IBNS: Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa will resign next Wednesday, after months of protest against him amid an unprecedented economic crisis in the island nation.
Sri Lanka crisis: Protesters set PM Ranil Wickremesinghe's house on fire
Jul 10, 2022, at 03:44 am
Colombo/IBNS: After barging into Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's residence, anti-government protesters have now set Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe's house on fire amid a deepening crisis in the island nation.
Jul 10, 2022, at 02:33 am
Colombo/IBNS: Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled his official residence Saturday as thousands of anti-government protesters stormed into his residence demanding his resignation.
Sri Lanka PM Ranil Wickremesinghe agrees to step down after protesters storm President's house
Jul 10, 2022, at 12:43 am
Colombo/UNI: The office of Sri Lanka's Prime Minister in a statement on Saturday said Ranil Wickremesinghe has agreed to step down following demands by party leaders in Parliament, Khaleej Times reported.
Bangladesh observes 1-day state mourning on former Japanese PM Shinzo Abe's death
Jul 09, 2022, at 10:32 pm
Dhaka: Bangladesh is observing one-day state mourning on Saturday as a mark of respect to former Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe, who was shot during a political campaign event in Japan's Nara city on Friday.
Sri Lanka Crisis: Thousands of protesters storm Prez House demanding Gotabaya Rajapaksa's ouster
Jul 09, 2022, at 08:59 pm
Colombo/UNI: Hundreds of thousands of protesters demanding the resignation of Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa stormed the President's House here on Saturday after overcoming stiff resistance put up by security forces, leaving an unspecified number of people injured.
Jul 09, 2022, at 08:27 pm
Colombo/UNI: Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe on Saturday called an emergency meeting of party leaders after thousands of protesters demanding the resignation of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa stormed the President's House here.
COVID-19: Chinese authorities neglecting elderly citizens amid new Omicron variant threat
Jul 09, 2022, at 04:11 am
Beijing: Elderly citizens in China are being neglected by the authorities despite the detection of the new Omicron subvariant of Covid-19 recently in the country.
Chinese aggression in South China Sea: Japan, Australia increasing military budgets
Jul 09, 2022, at 03:28 am
Beijing/Tokyo/Canberra: Amid escalating Chinese military aggression in the South China Sea, Japan, South Korea, Australia and Singapore are increasing their military budgets and spending as a response to the aggression they have experienced from Beijing.
Pakistan: Cop killed, 4 others injured in explosion at police check post in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Jul 09, 2022, at 03:02 am
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan: A policeman was killed and four others, including two cops, were injured in a blast that occurred inside a police check post in the Mardan district of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, according to local media reports.
Residents of PoK's Gilgit Baltistan protest over awarding mining contracts to foreign company
Jul 09, 2022, at 02:21 am
Gilgit Baltistan, PoK: The local residents of Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK)'s Gilgit Baltistan staged a sit-in blocking the Karakoram Highway in Hunza's Nasirabad for the fifth consecutive day on Wednesday to protest against the minerals department for permitting mining leases to an outsider company, reports said.
China puts pressure on Pakistan, keen on its own security companies for CPEC-related projects
Jul 09, 2022, at 01:34 am
Beijing/Islamabad: Beijing has put pressure on Islamabad in various ways to ensure the safety and security of the Chinese nationals living and working in Pakistan on CPEC (China–Pakistan Economic Corridor)-related projects.
Pakistan's textile sector loses $1bn export orders amid energy crisis
Jul 09, 2022, at 01:00 am
Islamabad: All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) Chairman Abdul Rahim Nasir has said that about 300 textile mills have been closed in the country amid a heavy energy crisis and subsequent suspension of gas supply.
Pakistan journalist arrested near Islamabad hours after claiming threat to life
Jul 07, 2022, at 05:38 am
Islamabad: Hours after claiming that his life was under threat, Pakistan journalist Imran Riaz Khan was arrested on Tuesday near a toll plaza on the outskirts of Islamabad.
Pakistan's key parliamentary committee gives nod for peace talks with banned group TTP
Jul 07, 2022, at 05:32 am
Islamabad: A key parliamentary committee of Pakistan on Tuesday gave formal approval to the Pakistani government for holding peace talks with the proscribed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and decided to constitute a steering committee for the talks with the banned outfit.
10 security personnel injured in suicide bombing in Pakistan's North Waziristan
Jul 07, 2022, at 05:29 am
North Waziristan, Pakistan: At least 10 security personnel were injured as a suicide bomber attacked a convoy of security forces in the North Waziristan tribal district of Pakistan on Monday, local media reported.
Beijing wants instability in Myanmar: Southeast Asia expert Bertil Lintner
Jul 06, 2022, at 05:31 am
New Delhi: Veteran journalist and regional expert Bertil Lintner on Monday said that China wants instability in Myanmar, and wishes to remain a major controlling player in the politics of the Southeast Asian country.
15 fishermen missing as boat capsizes in Indonesia
Jul 05, 2022, at 05:28 pm
Jakarta/UNI/Xinhua: Rescuers continued searching for 15 fishermen who went missing after their boat sank in the Arafura Sea, an Indonesian official said on Tuesday.
Pakistan: Hajj pilgrims face financial issues as govt fails to disburse promised subsidies
Jul 05, 2022, at 05:17 am
Islamabad: Amid dire economic condition, the incompetency of the Pakistani government is now reflecting in the hefty Hajj packages where the country’s newly formed coalition government has failed to provide subsidies to the Hajj pilgrims, media reports said.
Chinese authorities arresting Tibetan thinkers for upholding their culture and rights: Report
Jul 04, 2022, at 04:57 pm
Lhasa, Tibet: The Chinese authorities are arresting Tibetan thinkers, who have been speaking out in favour of their culture and rights which Beijing sees as an act of sedition, reports said.
Nepal police nab 3 Chinese nationals during raid at a software firm
Jul 04, 2022, at 04:52 pm
Kathmandu: The Nepal Police have arrested four people, including three Chinese nationals and a Nepali citizen, with 4.6 million Nepali rupees during a raid at a software firm suspected to be involved in illegal activities in Nepal's Kaski District.
Nepali authorities concerned over rising illegal activities by Chinese nationals
Jul 04, 2022, at 04:50 pm
Kathmandu: Chinese nationals in Nepal are often found to carry out financial frauds such as running Ponzi schemes online and scamming foreign nationals with lures of easy loans, causing grave concern for the Nepali authorities.
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.