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Dhaka: The Bangladesh National Hindu Grand Alliance (Bangladesh Hindu Mohajote) on Saturday alleged that the Hindu community was being tortured every day in the country and the living condition of Hindus in this country were getting harder and…

Dhaka: (Mir Afroz Zaman-UNI) Chowdhury Abdullah Al Mamun, Director General (DG) of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), said Bangladesh has shown enviable success in curbing militancy and terrorism. He said if RAB had not eradicated militancy from…

Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday said Finance Minister Miftah Ismail has informed him that Pakistan could receive up to $2 billion from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), reports Express Tribune. "Miftah Ismail in a…

Meanwhile, US officials led by Robert Kaproth, DSA, Treasury for Asia and Kelly Keiderling, DSA of state for South and Central Asia, arrived in Sri Lanka on Sunday

Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Saturday said that his country's economic future was closely linked to the success of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) with Gwadar port acting as its "main component" and to achieve…

Kabul: The death toll from the earthquake in Afghanistan reached 1,100, more than 1,650 people were injured, the Tolo News broadcaster reported. Earlier, Amin Huzaifa, the head of the culture and information department of the Paktika province, told…

New Delhi: Union Petroleum Minister Hardeep Puri on Monday met with the grieving son of Sardar Savinder Singh, an Afghan Sikh who was killed in the terror attack on the Karte Parwan Gurdwara in Kabul on Saturday and conveyed the condolence message of…

Kabul: The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan on Saturday ‘strongly condemned’ the attack on a Sikh temple in Kabul, that left two persons dead, including an Afghan Sikh. The UNAMA called for protection of all minorities in Afghanistan,…

Colombo: Former Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa, an influential brother of Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, on Thursday resigned from Parliament, marking another breach in the Rajapaksa clan which until recently held a tight grip over the…

Bangkok: Thailand had rescued 59 Rohingya refugees, including children, from an island who had been abandoned by people smugglers on an island close to the Malaysian border, police said on Sunday. The Rohingya – 31 men, 23 women, and five…

ISLAMABAD: Islamabad Police on Thursday registered a case against the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman and former Prime Minister Imran Khan in connection with the riots that occurred during his Azadi March in Islamabad on Wednesday. Apart…

NEW DELHI: Sri Lanka High Commissioner Milinda Moragoda on Friday met Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and explored the possibility of India increasing its financial assistance to the island nation to help it deal with its severe economic crisis.…

Islamabad: Police in Pakistan's Punjab province carried out raids at multiple locations and arrested several PTI workers and leaders in the wee hours of Tuesday, Dawn reported. There were reports of a police constable being shot dead during the…

Colombo:The state of emergency in Sri Lanka has been lifted with effect from Saturday after the government decided not to present the Emergency Regulations in Parliament for approval with the improvement of the law and order situation in the island…

Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has praised the country’s military for ending the conflict with the LTTE in 2009 and ushering in peace through a “humanitarian operation”, saying there was “no hatred, anger or revenge” involved in the nearly…

Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers ordered all female presenters on TV channels to cover their faces on air, the country’s biggest media outlet said Thursday. The order came in a statement from the Taliban’s Virtue and Vice Ministry, tasked with…

COLOMBO: A no-confidence motion tabled by the Opposition against Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa was defeated in Parliament on Tuesday, in a comfortable win for the embattled President amidst nationwide protests demanding his resignation due…

BEIJING : China on Sunday came to India's defence after G7's criticism over the decision to regulate the export of wheat, saying that blaming developing countries like India won't solve the global food crisis. Last week, the Indian government…

LAHORE: A Pakistani court here on Saturday extended the pre-arrest bail of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and his son and Punjab Chief Minister Hamza Shehbaz until May 21 in the Rs 14 billion money laundering case. The indictment of the prime…

COLOMBO: A Sri Lankan court on Friday was moved to direct the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to immediately arrest former prime minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and six others for alleged criminal intimidation and aiding and abetting attacks on…