Pak PM wants peaceful ties with India

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has said that Pakistan desired peaceful relations with India and resolution of the Kashmir issue and urged the international community to play its role in this regard.
21 August 2022

Singapore to decriminalise sex between men

Singapore will decriminalise sex between men but has no plans to change the legal definition of marriage as being between a man and a woman, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said on Sunday.
21 August 2022

Japan plans to deploy long-range missiles to counter China

Japan is considering the deployment of 1,000 long-range cruise missiles to boost its counterattack capability against China, the Yomiuri newspaper reported on Sunday.
21 August 2022

32 killed in separate crashes at accident sites in Turkey

At least 32 people were killed in southeast Turkey on Saturday when vehicles crashed into first respondents who were attending earlier accidents, authorities said.
21 August 2022

UN fails to reach deal

A United Nations waiver allowing 13 Afghan Taliban officials to travel abroad expired on Friday, as the Security Council failed to reach an agreement on whether to extend the travel exemptions.
20 August 2022

15 killed in northern India

At least 15 people were killed in India after heavy monsoon rains triggered flash floods and landslides near the Himalayan foothills, authorities said yesterday.
20 August 2022

India invested in creating people-centric dev partnership for all: Doraiswami

Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Vikram Kumar Doraiswami today (August 20, 2022) hoped that the traditional spirit of happiness, friendship, peace and harmony will only grow in a Bangladesh that remains true to the remarkable founding vision and values of its Liberation War.
20 August 2022

Momen’s comments “help” anti-India forces in Bangladesh: MEA sources

Sources in India's Ministry of External Affairs said Momen’s comments are equally “embarrassing” for India and help anti-India forces in Bangladesh.
20 August 2022

Suu Kyi could return home after verdicts, says junta chief

Myanmar's junta chief said on Friday he would consider allowing deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi to be moved to house arrest from prison but only after verdicts in a litany of cases against her have been reached.
20 August 2022

5 killed, 25 injured in Rajasthan road accident

At least five people were killed and 25 injured in a road accident in Indian state of Rajasthan late Friday (August 19, 2022) night.
20 August 2022

China tycoon jailed for 13 yrs for graft

A Chinese-Canadian tycoon who disappeared from a Hong Kong hotel five years ago has been sentenced to 13 years in prison and his company fined $8 billion for embezzlement and bribery, a Shanghai court said yesterday.
19 August 2022

‘Sharia will decide foreign engagement’

The Taliban will deal with the international community in line with sharia law, Haibatullah Akhundzada, the supreme leader of the hardline Islamist group said, according to a copy of his speech given to around 3,000 tribal leaders and shared by the information ministry yesterday.
19 August 2022

Negotiations with Suu Kyi after her trial

Myanmar’s military chief yesterday said the junta is open to negotiations with ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi to end the crisis sparked by its coup after her trials in a junta-run court have concluded.
19 August 2022

Chinese city dims lights in heatwave power crunch

A provincial capital in southwest China has dimmed outdoor advertisements, subway lighting and building signs to save energy, official announcements said, as the area battles a power crunch triggered by record-high temperatures.
19 August 2022

India firm to develop Nepal hydropower plant left by China

Nepal has signed a pact with an Indian company to develop a hydroelectric plant in the west of the nation years after a Chinese firm backed out over terms, officials said.
19 August 2022

Abandoned yacht sparks terror scare in Mumbai

An unmanned yacht carrying assault rifles and ammo triggered a brief security scare after it mysteriously washed up on the Indian coast, officials said.
19 August 2022

Nearly 3.78m tourists visited Thailand from January to mid-August

Thailand saw 3.78 million tourist arrivals from January to Aug 17, a government official said on Friday (August 19, 2022).
19 August 2022

Kabul mosque blast kills 21

A blast that ripped through a mosque packed with worshippers in the Afghan capital killed at least 21 people and wounded more than two dozen others, police said yesterday.
18 August 2022

Fresh protest breaks out in Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka police yesterday fired tear gas and water cannon on a small protest to break up the first demonstration since the crisis-hit island nation lifted a state of emergency.
18 August 2022

16 killed, many missing in China floods

Sixteen people were killed and many left missing in flash flooding in northwest China, state media reported yesterday, as the country battles extreme weather that has shuttered factories and caused rolling power cuts.
18 August 2022