Asia

Dhaka, Jan 9 (UNI/Xinhua) The Bangladeshi government Sunday signed a contract with a Chinese consortium to turn a major road in the eastern part of capital Dhaka into a four-lane expressway. Abdus Sabur, chief engineer of Bangladesh's…

Dhaka, Jan 8 (UNI) Turkey's Interior Minister Solaiman Soylu has said that Bangladesh is not alone in tackling the Rohingya crisis and that Turkey also stands with the country. The minister came up with the remark while inaugurating a…

Colombo, Jan 8 (UNI) Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Saturday evening arrived in Sri Lanka on a two-day visit to mark the 65th anniversary of Diplomatic Ties between the two countries as well as 70 years of the Rubber-Rice Pact. He was…

New Delhi, Jan 8 (UNI) External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Saturday held a telephonic talk with his Iranian counterpart H. Amirabdolahian, during which the two discussed the challenges in Afghanistan, the prospects of Chabahar port…

Jerusalem, Jan 4 (UNI/Xinhua) Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Tuesday spoke by phone on a variety of topics of common interest, including the Iranian nuclear issue. "The two discussed…

Kazakh President urges citizens to ignore provocations

Damascus (Syria), Jan 3: Five Syrian soldiers were killed and 20 others wounded when the Islamic State militants targeted their military bus in eastern Syria overnight Sunday, the media reported on Monday. A missile attack targeted the bus…

Kunming (China), Jan 2 (Xinhua) Twenty-two people were injured in a 5.4-magnitude earthquake that struck the county of Ninglang in China's Yunnan Province at 1502 hours on Sunday, local authorities said. The quake struck near the border…

Islamabad, Jan 2 (UNI) Pakistan’s Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) chief Sirajul Haq has called for the country’s Prime Minister Imran Khan’s resignation saying that there are mafias all over the country, and 2022 will be the last year of the…

Pakistani military had exceeded up to 15 km into Afghanistan territory

Dharamshala, Dec 31: The Tibetan Government in Exile on Friday firmly rejected Beijing’s contention that Tibet has always been a part of China and said that since the illegal and violent occupation of Tibet, China has oppressed the Tibetans…

Xi'an (China), Dec 31: China's Shaanxi province reported 165 locally transmitted Covid-19 cases on Thursday, bringing the total number of local cases in the latest resurgence to 1,301. Since the epidemic emerged on December 9, Xi'an, the…

Dhaka, Dec 28: Bangladesh Railway has signed a deal with a Chinese firm to purchase 580 wagons for expanding its freight train service capacity. Bangladesh Railway and CRRC Shandong Co., Ltd. signed the deal at a ceremony held in the…

Naypyidaw, Dec 29: A popular Myanmarese celebrity has been jailed for three years for participating in the protests against the military coup that took place in February. Model cum actor Paing Takhon took part in anti-coup protests and had…

Kabul, Dec 27: Hundreds of Afghans seeking entry to Iran are struck at Islam Qala port awaiting permission from the Iranian authorities to cross the border, closed due to the spread of the Omicron coronavirus strain, Afghanistan's TV…