Conditions for fruit cultivation are ideal in Pakistan and...
September 11 ,2020
Pakistan is climatically capable of growing fruits easily and in abundance. Evidence for the growth of fruit and vegetables in the subc...
SAM NOON UPDATES, 11 SEPTEMBER
September 11 ,2020
India, Pakistan confirm participation in SAARC foreign ministers’ virtual meet, Minister Gyawali says
Amid ongoing tensions be...
MODI GOVT COULD LOOK BEYOND NSCN (I-M) FOR PEACE IN NAGALA...
September 11 ,2020
File photo of NSCN (I-M) chief Thuingaleng Muivah | ANI
The much-awaited peace accord between the Modi government and variou...
AKSHAY KUMAR TELLS BEAR GRYLLS HE DRINKS COW URINE DAILY,...
September 11 ,2020
Bear Grylls (left) with actor Akshay Kumar | Twitter | @BearGrylls
In a video posted on Instagram Thursday, actor Akshay Kum...
VIOLENT INCIDENTS ACROSS PAK-AFGHAN BORDER 'MEANT TO DERAI...
September 11 ,2020
The Pakistan Army has said that the unfortunate rise in violent incidents on both sides of Pak-Afghan border is meant to "derail Afghan...
QATARI GOVT CONFIRMS INTRA-AFGHAN TALKS BEGIN SATURDAY
September 11 ,2020
Mohammad Naeem Wardak, a spokesman for the Taliban delegation, said in a tweet on Thursday that the opening meeting of the intra-Afghan...
PLA Tibet military command adopts drones for logistics sup...
September 11 ,2020
The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Tibet Military Command recently adopted UAVs - or drones - to provide logistics support for...
Coronavirus: Why is Pakistan doing so much better than Ind...
September 11 ,2020
South Asia is the most densely populated part of the world and also one of the poorest. With very low standards of healthcare, the regi...
India-China Tensions
September 11 ,2020
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Talks with India come with war preparedness
September 11 ,2020
Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Indian External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar is scheduled to meet...
MORNING BRIEF, 11 SEPTEMBER
September 11 ,2020
LAC standoff: Jaishankar, Wang Yi hold first face-to-face meeting in Moscow
India’s External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar and...
WHO LISTS PAKISTAN AMONG 7 COUNTRIES WORLD CAN LEARN FROM...
September 11 ,2020
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has listed Pakistan among seven countries that it says the world can learn from to fight future pan...
AYODHYA AIRPORT TO BE NAMED AFTER LORD RAM
September 11 ,2020
The airport in Ayodhya will be named after Lord Ram and will now have an international status.
According to official sources, the Yogi...
'COLLAPSE OF THE SYSTEM' NOT PART OF PEACE PLAN: AFGHAN PR...
September 11 ,2020
President Ashraf Ghani on Thursday said that the collapse of the political system in the country will not be part of the peace plan.
H...
AFGHAN SECURITY INSTITUTIONS FACE CRITICISM AFTER KABUL BL...
September 11 ,2020
Military experts and members of the public on Thursday accused the Afghan security and intelligence agencies of failing to protect the...
WHO SAYS $700 MILLION RAISED SO FAR FOR COVID-19 VACCINES...
September 11 ,2020
International donors have raised $700 million - less than half the target - to purchase future coronavirus vaccines for poor countries...
DHAKA, BUDAPEST AGREE ON NUCLEAR ENERGY COOPERATION
September 11 ,2020
Dhaka and Budapest on Thursday agreed to commence bilateral cooperation in the nuclear energy sector while Hungary announced to open co...
UAE-Israel deal's reverberations extend to Asia ahead of s...
September 11 ,2020
Israeli flag carrier El Al's plane is seen after landing at Abu Dhabi on Aug. 31. Saudi Arabia's decision to grant overflight pe...
Winds fuel wildfires across US west, destroying record 2.5...
September 11 ,2020
Law enforcement and fire personnel in Oroville, California, on Wednesday. Photograph: Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images
Large, fa...
Germans fear Trump more than coronavirus, survey shows
September 11 ,2020
Germans are more afraid of the policies of US President Donald Trump than of the coronavirus that has wreaked havoc on Europe's biggest...
India’s two-front war
September 11 ,2020
Are they really serious when successive Indian army chiefs say they are preparing for a two-front war? Or is a two-front war merely a b...
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Although the elections just held in four States and one Union Territory in India were provincial, they had immense national importance because national issues and national conditions impinged on them...
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The Corona pandemic that the world is struggling with for the second year now has brought home to us some truths about ourselves. The first thing is that...
