Tesla CEO Elon Musk made an unannounced trip to China on Sunday and met Premier Li Qiang, a week after he scrapped a planned visit to India to meet with PM Modi, citing “very heavy Tesla obligations”. He arrived amid speculation he may unveil...
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22nd Nov 2024 | Updated at 01:12pm 22nd 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.
Indian American Sunita L Williams, the well known NASA astronaut, is gearing up for her third space mission, this time as the pilot of the Crew Flight Test mission aboard Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft. This mission marks the first crewed flight...
A total of 65,960 Indians officially became US citizens, making India the second-largest source country for new citizens in America after Mexico, according to the latest Congressional report.
Indian-origin student Achinthya Sivalingam has been arrested and banned from Princeton University in the US, pending a disciplinary process, for participating in an unauthorised student-led pro-Palestine encampment protest within the campus...
Six Indian American students are among the 30 winners of the 2024 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans, a merit-based graduate school program for immigrants and children of immigrants.
- 01 May 2024
Three women from Gujarat were killed in a horrific car accident in the US. Rekha Patel, Sangita Patel, and Manisha Patel, all residents of Gujarat's Anand district, died as their SUV careened off the road, hurtling over a bridge in Greenville...
An Indian MBBS student from Andhra Pradesh died in Kyrgyzstan after he got trapped in a frozen waterfall there. Dasari Chandu (21), from Madugula village in Anakapalle, went on an outing with his four friends on April 21 after they finished...
Flash floods and a landslide swept through houses and cut off a major road in Kenya, killing at least 45 people and leaving dozens missing on Monday, the Interior Ministry said.
Relentless rains, hail and winds of near hurricane intensity battered southern China, forcing the evacuation of an entire town of more than 1,700 people in the province of Guangdong, media said.
Pakistan’s business community has urged PM Shehbaz Sharif to initiate trade with India and “shake hands” with jailed former PM and PTI founder Imran Khan as steps to bring economic and political stability to the country.
