New Delhi: India on Monday condemned Pakistan’s fresh attacks on Afghanistan that killed several civilians. Fresh clashes between the two sides erupted less than two months after both sealed a ceasefire pact to end weeks of fighting. “We have seen reports of border clashes in which several Afghan civilians have been killed,” Ministry of External […]
Read MoreSri Lanka’s fragile economic recovery will be delayed as Cyclone Ditwah’s devastation of homes, roads and vital crops pushes more families into poverty, with officials warning the bill to rebuild could soar to $7 billion. The worst economic crisis in decades, which peaked in 2022, had already doubled Sri Lanka’s poverty rate to nearly 25% […]
Read MoreThailand’s airstrikes on Monday targeted Cambodian military facilities housing long-range artillery, after surveillance signalled that rockets, including a Chinese-made variant, could be used to hit civilian areas, a Thai military official said. The Southeast Asian neighbours engaged in their worst fighting since a five-day clash in July, with both sides accusing each other of breaching […]
Read MoreThe medical team is not considering sending BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia abroad for advanced treatment until her health reaches a more stable point, a member of her medical board said. He said that although her health shows signs of gradual progress, the improvement is not significant, and recovery will take time due to her age […]
Read MoreBy Aditya Gowdara Shivamurthy and Uditi Lunawat On 22nd November, Sri Lanka’s Energy Minister, Kumara Jayakody, highlighted the government’s efforts to develop Trincomalee with India. He mentioned that India has proposed a submarine product pipeline to connect both countries, and the latter would also be sending a joint working team to discuss the development of the […]
Read MoreBy Sana Khan Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in New Delhi on Thursday for his first visit to India in four years, meeting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to discuss trade, defence cooperation, and peace efforts in Ukraine. The visit comes amid Western sanctions on Russia that have strained its traditional trade networks, while India […]
Read MoreJAKARTA: Indonesia has trained up to 20,000 troops to take on health and construction-related tasks during a planned peacekeeping operation in the war-torn enclave of Gaza, the defense minister said on Friday. The world’s most populous Muslim nation, Indonesia is among the countries with which the United States has discussed plans for a multinational stabilization […]
Read MoreDUBAI: Iran seized a Marshall Islands-flagged oil tanker as it traveled through the narrow Strait of Hormuz on Friday, a US official said, turning the ship into Iranian territorial waters in the first-such interdiction in months in the strategic waterway. Iran did not immediately acknowledge the seizure, though it comes as Tehran has been increasingly […]
Read MoreThe Penang Island City Council has ordered the unauthorised mural at a building at Chew Jetty to be removed. In a notice dated Thursday, issued under Section 82 of the Local Government Act 1976 by the council’s Heritage Conservation Department, the building owner in the Malaysian state was instructed to erase and repaint the wall. […]
Read MoreBy Park Chan-kyong South Korea has thrown its weight behind a United Nations resolution condemning the North’s dire human rights record, a choice that could complicate Seoul’s push to reopen dialogue with Pyongyang, analysts have warned. The decision to co-sponsor the annual UN resolution – despite expectations that President Lee Jae-myung’s liberal government might step […]
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