Pak unrest: Military court jails 60 more civilians

A Pakistani military court sentenced 60 civilians to 2–10 years in prison for attacks on military facilities after former prime minister Imran Khan’s 2023 arrest, the military’s media wing said yesterday.
26 December 2024, 18:00 PM

S Korea political crisis: Opposition moves to impeach acting president

South Korea’s opposition said yesterday it filed an impeachment motion against acting president Han Duck-soo, in an escalating row over the composition of the Constitutional Court which would decide whether to remove his predecessor from office.
26 December 2024, 18:00 PM

Manmohan Singh passes away at 92

Former Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh, the architect of India's economic reforms, passed away in New Delhi last night. He was 92.
26 December 2024, 17:45 PM

PK Halder walks out of Kolkata jail after over 2 years

More than two and a half years after his arrest by India’s Enforcement Directorate (ED) in a money laundering case, Bangladeshi businessman Prashanta Kumar Halder, known as PK Halder, walked out of jail after a special court in Kolkata granted him bail.
25 December 2024, 18:21 PM

Pak air strikes kill 46 in Afghanistan

Pakistan air strikes in an eastern border region of Afghanistan killed 46 civilians, the Taliban government said yesterday.
25 December 2024, 18:10 PM

38 die in Kazakhstan plane crash

An Azerbaijan Airlines passenger jet crashed yesterday in western Kazakhstan, killing 38 of the 67 people on board, officials said.
25 December 2024, 18:00 PM

Impeached South Korean president defies summons

South Korea’s suspended President Yoon Suk Yeol refused a summons to appear for questioning on Christmas Day, the second time he has defied investigators’ demands in a week.
25 December 2024, 18:00 PM

China military buildup: Japan FM raises ‘serious concerns’

Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya yesterday raised “serious concerns” over China’s military buildup as he met counterpart Wang Yi in Beijing, Tokyo said.
25 December 2024, 18:00 PM

India police kill 3 Sikh separatist militants

Indian police said yesterday they had killed three Sikh militants fighting for a separate homeland known as “Khalistan”, the struggle for which sparked deadly violence in the 1980s and 1990s.
23 December 2024, 18:00 PM

Hasina extradition: India says it received ‘note verbale’ from Bangladesh

It is to be noted that under the provisions of the India-Bangladesh extradition treaty, extradition may be refused if the offence is one of a "political character"
23 December 2024, 16:27 PM

Pak Taliban kills 16 Pak soldiers

The Pakistani Taliban claimed a brazen overnight raid on an army outpost near the border with Afghanistan yesterday, which intelligence officials said killed 16 soldiers and critically wounded five more.
21 December 2024, 18:00 PM

Pak military courts convict 25 PTI men

Pakistan military courts have convicted and sentenced 25 people for involvement in pro-Imran Khan unrest last year, the armed forces said yesterday, with the majority handed decade-long prison terms.
21 December 2024, 18:00 PM

Rebels ‘capture junta western command in Rakhine state’

A Myanmar ethnic rebel group has captured a military regional command in Rakhine state, it said, in what would be a major blow to the junta. 
21 December 2024, 18:00 PM

Rebels ‘capture junta western command in Rakhine state’

A Myanmar ethnic rebel group has captured a military regional command in Rakhine state, it said, in what would be a major blow to the junta
21 December 2024, 16:44 PM

India's green cover increases by 1,445 sq km

India's green cover went up by 1,445 sq km from 2021 to 2023, reaching 25.17 per cent of its geographical area, according to official data made public today
21 December 2024, 12:41 PM

Bangladeshi among 8 arrested in India over terror link

Md Sad Radi, a Bangladeshi national from Rajshahi, was apprehended in Kerala without valid travel documents
21 December 2024, 07:52 AM

Pakistan Taliban claim raid killing 16 soldiers

The Pakistani Taliban claimed a brazen overnight raid on an army outpost near the border with Afghanistan on Saturday, which intelligence officials said killed 16 soldiers and critically wounded five more
21 December 2024, 07:37 AM

Pakistan’s missile program is ‘emerging threat’

A senior White House official on Thursday said nuclear-armed Pakistan is developing long-range ballistic missile capabilities that eventually could allow it to strike targets well beyond South Asia, making it an “emerging threat” to the United States.
20 December 2024, 18:00 PM

Fighters from civil war aggravate India’s ethnic conflict

Indian militant groups that took refuge in Myanmar and fought in its civil war have been streaming back across the border to Manipur state this year, Indian security officers said, inflaming the bitter 19-month ethnic conflict there with weapons and battle-hardened cadres.
20 December 2024, 18:00 PM

Tabla maestro Zakir Hussain laid to rest in San Francisco

The mortal remains of tabla maestro Ustad Zakir Hussain were laid to rest on Thursday at a cemetery near San Francisco as renowned Indian percussionist A Sivamani and other artistes performed on their drums at a little distance away in a tribute to the departed artist.
20 December 2024, 18:00 PM