Colombo: The Sri Lankan government lifted the state of emergency last week, nearly two weeks after it was imposed across the island as it faced unprecedented...
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24th Nov 2024 | Updated at 03:16pm 24th 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.
India and Nepal’s “ever-strengthening” friendship and closeness will benefit the entire humanity amid the kind of global conditions that are emerging,...
The European leaders courted Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his recent visit, despite his refusal to break ties with Russia over its invasion of Ukraine. Modi toured France, Germany and Denmark after visits to India by UK PM Boris Johnson...
SAN FRANCISCO: A stolen ancient Indian artefact of a ‘Buddha in Dharma Chakra Mudra’ was handed over to India’s Consul General TV Nagendra Prasad by the US Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security representatives.
Kathmandu: Kenton Cool, a 48-year-old British national, has scaled the world’s highest peak Mount Everest for the 16th time, becoming the first non-Nepalese...
Ontario: As many as 20 candidates of Punjab origin are in the fray for the Ontario provincial elections in Canada for which the polling is scheduled to...
Houston: Arun Majumdar, Indian-American material scientist, engineer and professor, has been named the inaugural dean of Stanford University’s new school that focuses on climate change and sustainability. To be launched on September 1, Stanford...
Washington: A teenage white supremacist who raged that people of colour are replacing whites in America in a 180-page “manifesto”, zeroed in a minority-frequented store in Buffalo, New York and shot and killed 10 people and injured three more...
Dhaka: The Bangladesh government cancelled foreign trips of 17 officials following its decision to stop overseas trips of government officials on May 12, in the wake of the post-Covid economic recovery and the current global crisis.
Islamabad: Cash-strapped Pakistan’s foreign exchange reserves have dropped to their lowest level since December 2019, owing to an increase in current account and trade deficits, higher external debt payments and dried dollar inflows, according...
