Sri Lanka to witness power cuts for 4 hour and 30 mins for 3 days from today
Apr 26, 2022, at 02:06 am
Colombo: The Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) has announced Sri Lanka will witness 4 hour and 30 minute power cuts in all regions for three days from Monday due to the lack of sufficient fuel and water to generate electricity, media reports said.
Pakistan: Missing persons’ families not hopeful about Shehbaz Sharif's promise
Apr 26, 2022, at 02:01 am
Quetta, Pakistan: Sammi Deen Baloch, the daughter of Dr Deen Muhammad who has been missing since mid-2009, is not feeling positive about Pakistan's new Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s assurance that he will raise the missing persons’ issue with the relevant quarters.
China: Uyghur lecturer sentenced to 13 years in prison over writings, foreign connections
Apr 26, 2022, at 01:39 am
Xinjiang: A Uyghur academic, who studied in Germany, has been sentenced to 13 years in prison in northwestern China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, media reports said on Monday.
Pakistan's media regulatory authority sends notice to ARY News over ‘fake news’ attributed to envoy
Apr 26, 2022, at 01:17 am
Islamabad: The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) last week issued a show-cause notice to ARY News where it claimed the channel had aired 'fake and unverified' news about the stance of Pakistan’s former ambassador to the US, Asad Majeed, regarding the controversial letter, media reports said on Monday.
Sri Lanka to face severe food shortage: Former PM Ranil Wickremesinghe
Apr 25, 2022, at 11:51 pm
Colombo: Sri Lanka's former PM Ranil Wickremesinghe has expressed doubt that the country might face a severe food shortage as the Indian credit facility given for fuel will end by the first week of May.
China: Mass testing begins in Beijing, lockdown fear sparks panic buying
Apr 25, 2022, at 11:46 pm
Beijing: As the Chinese capital Beijing begins mass testing for its millions of residents after an increase in Covid-19 cases, fears of a hard lockdown have sparked panic buying.
Afghanistan: Taliban separates weekdays for male, female university students
Apr 25, 2022, at 11:42 pm
Kabul: The Taliban government of Afghanistan has separated weekdays of male and female students of Kabul University and Kabul Polytechnic University in a bid to further end co-education in the country, media reports said on Monday.
Sri Lanka to face severe food shortage: Former PM Ranil Wickremesinghe
Apr 25, 2022, at 11:42 pm
Colombo: Sri Lanka's former PM Ranil Wickremesinghe has expressed doubt that the country might face a severe food shortage as the Indian credit facility given for fuel will end by the first week of May.
Afghanistan: Family members of Kunduz blast ask Taliban govt to punish perpetrators
Apr 25, 2022, at 11:08 pm
Kabul: Family members of the victims of the Kunduz blast asked the Taliban government of Afghanistan to punish the perpetrators of the incident.
Pakistan: Afghan refugees demonstrate in front of UNHCR in Islamabad
Apr 25, 2022, at 10:45 pm
Kabul: Afghan refugees demonstrated in front of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Islamabad against the delay in processing their immigration papers.
Sri Lanka: Students protest outside PM's residence, demand resignation
Apr 25, 2022, at 04:27 am
Colombo: Thousands of Sri Lankan students, mostly university students, on Sunday protested outside Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa's residence demanding his resignation over the island nation's economic crisis.
Pakistan: Teen girl goes missing from Karachi
Apr 25, 2022, at 12:38 am
Karachi: A teen girl has gone missing from Pakistan's Karachi region recently, media reports said on Sunday.
Pakistan facing power cut troubles even during Ramadan
Apr 24, 2022, at 04:15 am
Islamabad: Pakistan is currently observing Ramadan but there is no respite from loadshedding troubles even now.
Pakistan: TikTok removes over 6.5 million videos
Apr 24, 2022, at 03:32 am
Islamabad: Short video sharing platform TikTok, a China-based subsidiary of ByteDance, has removed more than 6.5 million videos in Pakistan.
Nawaz Sharif says Imran Khan destroyed Pakistan's economy
Apr 24, 2022, at 03:29 am
Islamabad: Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has slammed ousted PM Imran Khan for backtracking on every promise and said the PTI chairman broke the back of Pakistan's economy.
Apr 23, 2022, at 09:50 pm
Kabul: The Taliban government has directed the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology (MCIT) to ban access to online game Player Unknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) and the video-sharing app TikTok, stating that the younger generation is going astray due to them.
Pakistan: Three soldiers killed during gunbattle with terrorists in Af-Pak border
Apr 23, 2022, at 09:30 pm
Islamabad: At least three soldiers were killed in the Dewagar area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's North Waziristan district during an exchange of fire with terrorists from across the Afghan border, media reports said on Saturday.
Afghanistan: Pakistani scholar urges Taliban to reopen schools for girls
Apr 23, 2022, at 03:14 pm
Kabul/Islamabad: Mufti Taqi Usman, a prominent Pakistani scholar, has written a letter to the Taliban government of Afghanistan and asked it to reopen girls’ schools for Afghan girls.
Pakistan: Protests held in several Balochistan towns against killing of truck driver
Apr 23, 2022, at 05:49 am
Quetta, Pakistan: Various political party members demonstrated in Pakistan's Dalbandin, Nokkundi, Nushki and Kharan towns on Wednesday against recent killing of a truck driver in Chagai as well as injuries to those who had taken to the streets against the incident.
Pakistan: Fire destroys village, inquiry team visits to inspect cause
Apr 23, 2022, at 05:39 am
Islamabad: An inquiry team-led by Sindh home secretary Dr Saeed Ahmed Magnejo on Thursday launched an investigation into the deadly fire incident in Faiz Mohammad Daryani village of Pakistan, media reports said on Friday.
Shanghai needs food, not TCM Covid-19 medicine Lianhua Qingwen: Medical experts
Apr 23, 2022, at 05:24 am
Beijing: A popular Chinese neurologist has directed authorities to make it “very clear” whether traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) Lianhua Qingwen is effective against Covid-19 before giving it precedence over food and other essential deliveries to people in lockdown
Extreme poverty following Taliban takeover of Afghanistan forces man to burn himself to death
Apr 23, 2022, at 05:21 am
Kabul: An Afghanistan man died after setting himself on fire for being extremely impoverished following the transformation of the regime in the country.
Blast rips through Afghanistan mosque during Friday prayers, leaves 33 dead
Apr 23, 2022, at 04:11 am
Kabul/IBNS: A blast ripped through a mosque during Friday prayers in northern Afghanistan killing 33 people and injuring 43 others, media reports said.
Hong Kong authorities 'brainwashing' convicted pro-democracy activists: Reports
Apr 23, 2022, at 12:04 am
Hong Kong: The Hong Kong Correctional Services Department is using "brainwashing" measures to "deradicalize" jailed pro-democracy protesters present in the prison, media reports said on Friday.
Pakistan's new govt to wind up CPEC authority
Apr 22, 2022, at 11:57 pm
Islamabad: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif-led Pakistan government has decided to abolish the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) Authority amid disclosure that Chinese power producers have shut down 1,980 megawatts of production capacity due to non-clearance of their Rs 300 billion dues, media reports said on Friday.
Japan describes Southern Kurils as occupied areas for first time since 2003
Apr 22, 2022, at 11:40 pm
Mumbai: The Japanese government has described the Southern Kuril islands, known in Japan as the Northern Territories, as the area illegally occupied by Russia in its Diplomatic Bluebook for the first time since 2003, media reported on Friday.
Three blasts kill 5 in Afghanistan
Apr 21, 2022, at 10:46 pm
Kabul/UNI: Three separate blasts occurred in Afghanistan on Thursday - in Kabul, in Mazar-e-Sharif and in Kunduz city, killing five people and injuring around 65, the media reported.
Pakistan's first Sikh Police officer allegedly missing, Indian politicians express concern
Apr 20, 2022, at 11:53 pm
Islamabad: Pakistan's first Sikh cop Gulab Singh Shaheen has allegedly gone missing, media reports said.
Pakistani rupee falls below 185-mark against dollar
Apr 20, 2022, at 11:50 pm
Islamabad: Pakistani rupee lost further ground on Wednesday as fell below the 185-mark in the inter-bank market to close at 185.92 against the US dollar, media reports said.
Bangladesh: Explosion hits Mymensingh factory, two workers die
Apr 20, 2022, at 11:48 pm
Mymensingh: At least two workers died as an explosion hit an illegal fireworks factory in Bangladesh's Mymensingh region on Wednesday, media reports said.