‘PAKISTAN TO EXTEND ALL POSSIBLE SUPPORT FOR DURABLE PEACE...
April 16 ,2021
Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday said that Pakistan would continue to extend all possible support to the efforts for a political s...
INDIAN HOSPITALS BATTLE ‘CHAOTIC’ SURGE AS DAILY VIRUS INF...
April 16 ,2021
Many Indian hospitals were scrambling for beds and oxygen as COVID-19 infections surged to a new daily record on Thursday, with a secon...
MORNING NEWS BRIEF: 16 APRIL
April 16 ,2021
PICTURE OF THE DAYMUNSHIGANJ, BANGLADESH
Migrant people and workers leave the city in speedboats before the countrywide lockdo...
MORNING NEWS BRIEF: 16 APRIL
April 16 ,2021
PICTURE OF THE DAYMUNSHIGANJ, BANGLADESH
Migrant people and workers leave the city in speedboats before the countrywide lockdown is im...
Malaysia eases currency protections as ASEAN vies for inve...
April 16 ,2021
Malaysia's central bank hopes the move will improve the country's position in global supply chains and attract foreign direct in...
White House meeting with PM Suga sends signal of tight US-...
April 16 ,2021
US President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga will meet in person on Friday (April 16).PHOTOS: EPA-EFE, REUTERS...
Biden hits Russia with new sanctions in response to electi...
April 16 ,2021
The Biden administration has announced the expulsion of 10 Russian diplomats and broad sanctions against Russian officials and companie...
Top IAF commanders begin 3-day conference, review India’s...
April 16 ,2021
Top commanders of the Indian Air Force on Thursday began a comprehensive review of the security challenges facing India, including alon...
Australia gift Sri Lanka drones to spot people smuggling
April 16 ,2021
Australia has gifted Sri Lankan police five drones to monitor people smuggling between the two countries.
It’s part of a wider p...
Biden presses Pakistan as he announces Afghan exit
April 16 ,2021
US President Joe Biden warned the Taliban on Wednesday he would hold them accountable on Afghanistan after the US exit and pressed...
About 15,000 collected bank cheques for Ram Temple donatio...
April 16 ,2021
About 15,000 bank cheques with a face value of Rs 22 crore, collected by the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) for the construction of the Ra...
Myanmar regime arrests about 36 protest leaders, celebriti...
April 16 ,2021
About three dozen people, including a prominent protest leader, protesters, celebrities, activists and ordinary citizens, were arrested...
Govt outlaws TLP after deadly protests
April 16 ,2021
The government on Thursday decided to approach the apex court seeking the dissolution of the Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) after the...
Callous rhetoric: Amit Shah’s ‘anti-Bangladeshi card’ can...
April 16 ,2021
Describing cross-border infiltration as West Bengal’s biggest problem, Indian Home Minister Amit Shah claimed that the poor in Ba...
Joe Biden ends the Afghanistan nightmare
April 16 ,2021
President Joe Biden did it. In announcing a complete exit by September 11, the twentieth anniversary of the Al Qaeda terrorist attacks...
Coup puts Myanmar’s crippling military capitalism in the s...
April 16 ,2021
Myanmar’s economy has long been shaped by the Tatmadaw — the nation’s powerful armed forces — and by the shifti...
Facebook planned to remove fake accounts in India – until...
April 16 ,2021
Facebook allowed a network of fake accounts to artificially inflate the popularity of an MP from India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata...
Nepal: Verdict ahead of parliamentary hearing raises multi...
April 16 ,2021
A recent Supreme Court decision has put a spotlight, once again, on how the principle of checks and balances is facing a threat in Nepa...
Indian and Pakistani intelligence officers held secret tal...
April 16 ,2021
Indian paramilitary soldiers stand guard in Shopian in Indian-controlled Kashmir. Photo: AP
Top intelligence officers from India a...
Top US envoy Blinken in Afghanistan for troop withdrawal t...
April 16 ,2021
United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken has begun an unannounced visit to Afghanistan to brief officials on President Joe Biden...
US not criticizing India over human rights exposes hypocri...
April 16 ,2021
On Tuesday, CNN published an opinion piece entitled "Why Biden should be careful about courting India's Modi government." It warned the...
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Colombo Chronicle
Takeaways from the Indian elections: an overview
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...
Ikram Sehgal
Karachi Canvas
Pandemic has sharpened geo-political conflicts
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...
