430,000 NEW DOMICILE CERTIFICATES ISSUED AS INDIA ENFORCES...
August 30 ,2020
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is changing held Kashmir’s residency laws for the first time since 1947, in a bid to snuff out any c...
29 DEAD, DOZENS INJURED AFTER RESTAURANT COLLAPSES IN CHIN...
August 30 ,2020
At least 29 people were killed and dozens injured after a restaurant collapsed in northern China on Saturday, according to a state medi...
CHINA'S NEW TECH EXPORT CONTROLS COULD GIVE BEIJING A SAY...
August 30 ,2020
China's new rules around tech exports mean ByteDance's sale of TikTok's U.S. operations could need Beijing's approval, a Chinese trade...
1 KILLED, 1 WOUNDED IN KABUL BLAST
August 30 ,2020
At least one person was killed, and another was wounded in a blast in Kabul on Saturday night, Kabul police confirmed.
The incident ha...
The killings that never see justice
August 30 ,2020
Members of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) were involved in the killing of 26-year-old Nur Alam Babu, the only son of the wounded free...
RUWAN WIJEWARDENE OFFERS TO LEAD THE UNP
August 30 ,2020
Former Parliamentarian Ruwan Wijewardene says he has decided to put his name forward to be appointed the leader of the United National...
CRACKDOWN IN KUWAIT: UNDOCUMENTED BANGLADESHIS IN TROUBLE
August 30 ,2020
Undocumented Bangladeshi workers in Kuwait are at risk of facing deportation, as authorities in the Gulf country have recently decided...
INDIA TO REOPEN UNDERGROUND TRAIN NETWORKS EVEN AS CORONAV...
August 30 ,2020
India will reopen underground train networks and allow sports and religious events in a limited manner from next month as part of the g...
INDIAN FORCES INJURE SCORES OF KASHMIRIS TAKING OUT MUHARR...
August 30 ,2020
Scores of people mostly Shia Muslims were injured on Saturday when occupation forces dispersed a Muharram procession with pellet guns i...
INDIA HAS FAILED TO ‘PUSH PAKISTAN INTO FATF BLACKLIST’
August 30 ,2020
Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi has said that India had tried to push Pakistan into Financial Action Task Force (FATF) b...
GOVT INSISTS ON RELEASE OF AFGHAN COMMANDOS AHEAD OF TALKS
August 30 ,2020
The Presidential Palace on Saturday said the intra-Afghan negotiations will not begin unless 24 Afghan commandos and pilots are release...
GHANI OFFICIALLY APPROVES 48 RECONCILIATION COUNCIL MEMBER...
August 30 ,2020
President Ashraf Ghani in a decree on Saturday approved 48 members of the High Council for National Reconciliation, which is led by Abd...
Japan and US defense chiefs agree to keep China in check
August 30 ,2020
U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper on Saturday accused China of performing 'destabilizing activities' in the South China Sea. &...
Abe's abrupt exit puts Indo-Pacific strategy and economy a...
August 30 ,2020
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visits the USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier at its home port of Yokosuka, Japan, in October 2015...
This is why the world will miss Shinzo Abe
August 30 ,2020
Shinzo Abe shakes hands with Malcom Turnbull in Sydney in January 2017: even after Donald Trump pulled out, we had agreed to keep TPP...
After seven decades, the children of Partition are going b...
August 30 ,2020
Khalid Bashir Rai was seven when his family had to abandon their home. It was August 15, 1947, the day India was partitioned into two s...
India should not be worried about Bangladesh-China relatio...
August 30 ,2020
The relationship between Bangladesh and India is a historic one and the friendship between the two countries has endured the test of ti...
India withdraws from Russia military exercise, participati...
August 30 ,2020
India Saturday withdrew from a multilateral military exercise- Kavkaz-2020- that was scheduled to be held in southern Russia next month...
Congress writes to Mark Zuckerberg again over allegations...
August 30 ,2020
The Congress on Saturday wrote to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg for the second time in a month, asking what steps were being taken on re...
Centre's New Rules Leave J&K Chief Minister Powerless Over...
August 30 ,2020
In the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir, when it had special status, the chief minister was the most powerful person in the decisio...
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