By Mahua Venkatesh New Delhi, Nov 22: The impact of the devastating floods continues to plague Pakistan as large swathes of land are still under water. This has impacted the sowing of winter crops in…
By Rajinder S Taggar Chandigarh, Nov 22: The court trial of former Punjab minister Sadhu Singh Dharmsot in the Forest Department corruption scandal has been held up as the state government has still not granted…
By Ateet Sharma New Delhi, Nov 22: In what has been described as another “close call” for Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) located in the middle of a war…
By Santosh Ghimire New Delhi, Nov 22: Only 61 per cent eligible voters polled in Sunday’s elections, but the turnout could have been even lower had young candidates had not been in the fray. According…
By Rajinder S Taggar New Delhi, Nov 21: The Punjab government has placed under suspension two absconding Indian Forest Service (IFS) officers who are facing corruption charges and have been absent from duty for a…
By Mahua Venkatesh New Delhi, Nov 21: Pakistan’s Finance Minister Ishaq Dar finds himself in a bind. Dar, a close aide of PML-N supremo, was reappointed Finance Minister, promised to bring down prices and reduce…
By Sankalp Gurjar New Delhi, Nov 19: On November 20, Nepal will hold parliamentary and provincial elections. Under the new constitution, it will be the second time that the Himalayan state will go for polls….
By Rahul Kumar New Delhi, Nov 19: The Indian diaspora is planning a major demonstration in front of the Pakistani High Commission in London to commemorate the 14th anniversary of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks….
By Rahul Kumar New Delhi, Nov 18: The simmering discontent among the Baloch community against alienation by Pakistan has spread across the province from the strategic Gwadar port city in the south to Kalat in…
By Aditi Bhaduri New Delhi, Nov 18: Going by social media posts in the Turkic world, one would think that the map of Eurasia had changed overnight and instead of the numerous countries now dotting…
By Santosh Ghimire New Delhi, November 18: With just two days left for crucial federal parliament and provincial assembly polls, Sobita Gautam, a young activist from Nepal has been aggressively campaigning door-to-door in her Kathmandu-2…
By Mahua Venkatesh New Delhi, Nov 17: All eyes are on India as it assumed the one-year presidency of the G20 group amid shifting geopolitical dynamics and rising global challenges. The government started preparations for…
Sankalp Gurjar New Delhi, Nov 17: Earlier this month, a Chinese survey ship Yuan Wang VI entered the Indian Ocean, apparently, to track the Indian missile test in the Bay of Bengal. It is the…
Santosh Ghimire Kathmandu, Nov 17: Election fever has gripped Nepal. With just three days left for federal parliament and provincial assembly elections, campaigning is peaking, with candidates wooing voters across the country. This is the…
Rajinder S Taggar Chandigarh, Nov 17: The Department of Rural Development and Panchayats, Punjab, has come to the conclusion that the Lovely Professional University (LPU), Jalandhar, committed no “fraud” in exchanging 13 acres of land…
Atul Aneja New Delhi, Nov 17: India has moved to the frontline of diplomacy to resolve the turbulent situation in Taliban ruled Afghanistan by joining Russia and Iran in a new Moscow-backed troika. Sources told…
Rajinder S Taggar Chandigarh, Nov 16: While the Punjab police have failed to arrest one of the main accused in the Rs 5,600 crore National Spot Exchange Limited (NSEL) scam, Ludhiana businessman Kailash Aggarwal, the…
By Santosh Ghimire New Delhi, Nov 15: Subodh Majhi, a resident of Basahiya village of Nepal’s Janakpur, is a daily wage worker. He listens to the news daily keenly following the federal parliament and provincial…
By Rahul Kumar New Delhi, Nov 14: A joint counter-terror operation is underway in the Maldives where the Maldives police and the defence forces have arrested 13 people. The operation was launched on Saturday. The…
Rahul Kumar New Delhi, Nov 11: Former Maldivian President Mohamed Nasheed is at the COP Summit in Egypt as a climate change hero. Back home he is in the news for representing neighbouring Sri Lanka…