Dhaka: Bangladesh will hold crucial parliamentary elections Thursday, 18 months after an interim government took charge following the collapse of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's 15-year regime in massive country-wide deadly protests. The Election Commission has made elaborate security arrangements, deploying nearly one million security personnel...
Islamabad: Pakistan’s Defence Minister Khawaja Asif has made a striking admission regarding the country’s historical alignment with the United States, accusing Washington of exploiting Islamabad for its strategic interests before abandoning it once its objectives were achieved. Speaking in Pakistan’s National Assembly, Asif acknowledged the...
Nuremberg: India has always negotiated with a "clear mindset" on sectors that are "very" sensitive for the country in trade pacts and has protected all those key segments under the interim trade agreement with the US, Commerce Secretary Rajesh Agrawal said. He also said that...
Dhaka: More than half the polling centres have been identified as "risk-prone" for the general elections in Bangladesh, as officials said 90 per cent of them will be under CCTV surveillance, with many policemen deployed in the capital, Dhaka, wearing body cameras. Officials said the...
New York/Washington: The office of the US Trade Representative has removed a social media post that featured a map of India showing the entire region of Jammu and Kashmir, including Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, as well as the Aksai Chin region as part of the Indian territory....
Vancouver: A shooting at a school in British Columbia left eight dead including the suspect, with two more people found dead at a home believed to be connected to the incident, Canadian authorities said Tuesday. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said more than 25 people...
New York/Washington: White House has removed "pulses" from a list of American products on which it said India will eliminate or reduce tariffs, in a revised fact sheet issued on the interim trade deal. On Monday, the White House had issued a fact sheet on...
New York/Washington: India has already started ‘winding down’ its purchases of Russian oil, and New Delhi is 'ramping back up' buying energy from America and other sources, United States Trade Representative (USTR) Jamieson Greer said Tuesday. In a call between President Donald Trump and Prime...
Kathmandu: Nepal's Prime Minister Sushila Karki Tuesday thanked India for providing support for the upcoming elections in Nepal. Nepal is set to hold the House of Representatives elections March 5, the first since last year's deadly Gen-Z protests that toppled the K P Sharma Oli-led...
Kathmandu: Twelve people were killed and eight others injured Tuesday after a passenger bus fell into a river in central Nepal, police said. The incident occurred around 11 am when the bus enroute to Okhaldhunga from Kathmandu fell into the Tamakoshi River in Ramechhap municipality...
Influential people and high dignitaries often willingly get into honey-traps or sex rackets to seek pleasure using their positions. The...
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An unseemly controversy has been created over an unpublished book penned by former Army Chief General MM Naravane. It has...
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After punishing Indian exporters with a steep 50 per cent tariff on their goods sold in America for more than...
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By Aakar Patel Violation of sovereignty is defined as an infringement on a nation’s territorial integrity or an interference with...
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