By Abhishek De Kyrgyzstan’s capital, Bishkek, has been on the boil over the last couple of days, with violent mobs targeting hostels housing students from India, Bangladesh and Pakistan. Three Pakistani students have been reportedly killed in the violence, prompting Islamabad and New Delhi to issue advisories for its nationals in Kyrgyzstan. Local reports said the […]
Read MoreBy Federica Marsi A $320m floating pier built for delivering aid has been attached to Gaza’s shore and began being used to deliver aid on Friday, United States Central Command (CENTCOM) says. Aid groups have criticised the pier as a costly and ineffective distraction from the fact that land deliveries are the most efficient way […]
Read MoreBy Shola Lawal India has signed a 10-year agreement to develop and operate Iran’s strategic Chabahar Port as New Delhi aims to boost trade ties with landlocked Afghanistan and Central Asian countries, bypassing ports in its western neighbour and arch foe Pakistan. “It [the port] serves as a vital trade artery connecting India with Afghanistan […]
Read MoreRussian leader Vladimir Putin was in the northeastern city of Harbin on Friday, the final day of a visit aiming to promote crucial trade with China and win greater support for his war effort in Ukraine. Putin arrived Thursday on his first trip abroad since his March re-election, meeting President Xi Jinping for talks in […]
Read MoreBy Andrew Haffner Phnom Penh, Cambodia – Cambodia is pushing for an infrastructural renaissance, but it will need some help from its friends abroad to chip away at an estimated price tag of $36.6bn. That was the final sum calculated by the Cambodian government and published earlier this year in a 174-project master plan that […]
Read MoreChina on Friday announced some of its most sweeping measures yet to stabilise the crisis-hit property sector, allowing local governments to buy “some” apartments, relaxing mortgage rules and pledging further efforts to deliver unfinished homes. Earlier in the day, fresh data showing the fastest drop in new home prices in more than nine years highlighted […]
Read MoreLocal emergency services workers continue to search for mass graves around three hospitals in the Palestinian Gaza Strip, months after Israeli occupation forces launched an operation that blocked them. Israel claims that these hospitals were used as command centers of the Palestinian independence organization Hamas. Palestinian officials said that the bodies of more than five […]
Read MoreIsrael has a rift in relations with neighboring Egypt over the aggression in Gaza. Cairo is even thinking of taking decisions like withdrawing the ambassador from Tel Aviv. Egyptian officials told the US media outlet Wall Street Journal that the differences between the two countries have become apparent over the Israeli aggression in Gaza and […]
Read MoreAccording to the United Nations, 150,000 pregnant women in Gaza are suffering from various health problems. Wafa news agency confirmed this information on Monday (May 13) quoting Al Jazeera. More than 150,000 pregnant women in Gaza are facing dire sanitary and health problems amid the ongoing war, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for […]
Read MoreRegardless of the political conflict, China has overtaken the US as India’s largest trading partner. The US was India’s largest trading partner in the previous two fiscal years. According to the data of the Ministry of Commerce of India, the trade between India and China in the fiscal year 2023-24 was 118.4 billion or 11 […]
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