Islamabad: Pakistan and the Maldives Wednesday signed 20 memorandums of understanding (MoUs) to strengthen cooperation in various fields, including defence, maritime security and artificial intelligence. The agreements were inked during the visit of Maldivian President Mohamed Muizzu, who arrived in Islamabad Tuesday on a three-day...
Kabul: Pakistan Army chief Asim Munir is considering a sweeping restructuring of the country’s administrative map that could divide its four provinces into as many as 12 to 15 smaller provinces, raising concerns over provincial autonomy and the military’s expanding grip on civilian politics, a...
Islamabad: As many as 10 people were killed and 44 others injured as a bus overturned after colliding with a road divider on the Indus Highway in Rojhan tehsil of Rajanpur district in Pakistan's Punjab province, local media reported Wednesday citing rescue authorities. The accident...
Kabul: Nearly 16 million people in Afghanistan are experiencing acute food insecurity, including 3.4 million facing emergency levels of hunger, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said, adding that the conditions are likely to worsen during the winter months, local media...
Washington: The Trump administration said that more than three million migrants have left the United States since President Donald Trump returned to office, as the White House unveiled a sweeping assessment of its immigration crackdown, including a sharp decline in border crossings, mass deportations and...
Milan: Some supermarket shelves and gas station pumps were empty in the southern city of Naples due to a weeklong protest by truck drivers against the high cost of diesel driven up by the Iran war. Protesters blocked the loading and unloading of fresh food...
Washington: The United States has launched a $25 million whistleblower programme offering rewards of up to $30,000 to people whose information helps federal prosecutors bring criminal fraud charges, as the Trump administration steps up efforts to detect misuse of taxpayer money. The Justice Department announced...
United Nations: India has asserted that human rights should not be used as an instrument of political pressure or selective targeting of countries, as it opposed attempts to turn allegations and incomplete statistics into a "negative characterisation" of the world's largest democracy. "India engages with...
Washington: The US and India are "pretty close" to a trade deal, which will differ significantly from earlier pacts, US President Donald Trump said here. Speaking to reporters at the Oval Office Tuesday, Trump said India and the US were pretty close to making a...
Mumbai/New Delhi: India and the US moved to expand energy and defence cooperation Tuesday despite ongoing friction in their relations, as Secretary of State Marco Rubio urged New Delhi to scale up energy trade and increase the purchase of American technologies and systems. External Affairs...
The demonstration by scores of policemen and officers outside the Delhi Police headquarters on 2 November to protest against some...
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More than three years after ethnic violence erupted in Manipur, there is no let-up in the spiral of killings, displacement,...
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The BJP appears to be clueless as to how to handle the people’s fury and the Opposition’s mega rally at...
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By Aakar Patel My thesis is that the Indian state under Hindutva is incompletely communal. I have written about this...
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