COLOMBO: Monsoon rains triggered floods and mudslides in Sri Lanka killing at least 16 people and leaving more than a quarter of a million homeless, the Disaster Management Centre (DMC) said on Sunday. Heavy downpours in 10 out of the country’s...
-
26th Nov 2024 | Updated at 10:49am 26th Nov 2024
TRUMP’S HISTORICAL COMEBACK
- 07 Nov 2024
With millions of Americans casting their votes, the 2024 presidential race is emerging as one for the history books.
PM Modi and Xi vow to rebuild ties, put seal on LAC truce
- 30 Oct 2024
The landmark agreement India and China reached recently to end one of the longest military standoffs in recent times received the final seal of approval from PM Modi and President Xi Jinping, as the two held a bilateral meeting after a gap of...
No wish for revenge, Nawaz tells supporters on return
- 25 Oct 2023
Islamabad: Pakistan’s former three-time prime minister Nawaz Sharif arrived home on Saturday, ending a four-year self-imposed exile in London and restarting his political journey ahead of the general elections with a huge rally at Minar-e-Pakistan...
Bilawal to attend SCO meet in Goa, India plays it down
- 26 Apr 2023
Pakistan's foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari will attend SCO foreign ministers meet which India is hosting in Goa on May 5.The Indian administration didn't explicitly rule out a meeting between S Jaishankar and Bilawal, but it didn't seem...
Have patience, efforts on to overcome challenges: Yunus
- 28 Aug 2024
Bangladesh interim govt chief adviser Muhammad Yunus has requested people in his county to have patience and allow his govt time to address the challenges instead of insisting on addressing everything right now
Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina flees to India, Army in charge
- 07 Aug 2024
Bangladesh’s embattled PM Sheikh Hasina (76) on Monday resigned and fled the country following more than a month of deadly demonstrations that began as protests against job quotas and swelled into a movement precipitating the end of her 15-year...
TRUMP’S HISTORICAL COMEBACK
- 07 Nov 2024
With millions of Americans casting their votes, the 2024 presidential race is emerging as one for the history books.
PM Modi leads Yoga day event at United Nations
- 28 Jun 2023
Prime Minister Narendra Modi led the celebration of International Yoga Day at the United Nations in New York and urged people "to join hands together to realise the goal of one earth, one family, one future"
Gotabaya Rajapaksa calls for constitutional changes to curb minority parties
- 08 Jan 2020
Sri Lanka’s new president endorsed amending the constitution to reduce the power of minority political parties, saying the country wasn’t suited to a system that creates unstable governments “constantly under the influence of extremism”.
Trouble brewing in post-election Sri Lanka
- 11 Dec 2019
Weeks after the election of hardliner Gotabaya Rajapaksa as the president of Sri Lanka, the prospects for justice and reconciliation between the different communities on the island lie in tatters.
Nepal PM Prachanda likely to visit India next month
- 22 Mar 2023
Kathmandu: Nepal’s PM Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ is likely to travel to India on an official visit next month - his first foreign trip since assuming the office for the third time in December last year, a media report said.
Nepal ruling coalition bags 90 seats out of 165
- 07 Dec 2022
Kathmandu: The top leaders of Nepal’s five-party ruling coalition on Monday met at PM Sher Bahadur Deuba’s official residence to review the general elections and discuss the formation of a new government.
Three generations, three journeys
- 05 Sep 2022
Rakesh Patel, a 47-year-old commodity trader took a plunge to visit Greenland. Speaking to Asian Voice, he said, “Over a hundred years ago, our grandparents emigrated from India to Africa in search of a better life. In 1972, our parents had...
‘2024, MODI ONCE MORE’
- 04 May 2022
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi received a grand welcome by the diaspora in Germany, on his three-nation Europe trip.
Kampala: Gunmen have shot Katumba Wamala, Uganda’s minister of works and transport, in what police described as a “targeted drive-by shooting” which left...
Johannesburg: A South African court froze the assets of the controversial Indian-origin Gupta family and their associate, Iqbal Meer Sharma, which included...
A few Indians have joined other plaintiffs in an ongoing litigation that challenges the Covid-related travel ban to the US. An amended complaint (lawsuit petition) was recently filed with the district court of Columbia to include the travel...
- 09 Jun 2021
Islamabad: The Asia Pacific Group (APG) on Money Laundering, a regional affiliate of Paris-based Financial Action Task Force (FATF), has retained Pakistan on "enhanced follow-up" status for sufficient outstanding requirements, while improving...
Islamabad: An express train rammed into derailed coaches of another train, killing up to 51 people and injuring over 100 others in Pakistan’s southern Sindh province on Monday, forcing authorities to call in the Army and paramilitary forces...
Lahore: The Christian community of Pakistan has hailed the acquittal of a Christian couple arrested in 2013 for alleged blasphemy. Justice Shehbaz Ali...
Islamabad: Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai’s views on whether marriage is necessary for two people in a relationship has invited an avalanche...
As a Covid-19 surge continues unabated in Nepal, a cross-party group of MPs has written a letter to the Foreign Secretary to raise concerns about the UK government’s failure so far to provide comprehensive emergency support, including vaccines,...
A Sikh man in Pakistan, who was missing since February after being abducted from his home, has been found by the police in a village in the country’s northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
