FORMER INTERIM PRESIDENT SIBGHATULLAH MUJADDEDI PASSES AWAY
Sibghatullah Mojaddedi was born on 21 April 1925. He served as president after the fall of Mohammad Najibullah’s government in April 1992.
He was the founder of the Afghan National...
CITIZENSHIP BILL IN RAJYA SABHA UPDATES: CURFEW IMPOSED IN MANIPUR AFTER PROTEST TURNS VIOLENT
The controversial Citizenship (Amendment) Bill 2016, which seeks to provide citizenship to non-Muslim migrants from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh, will be tabled in Rajya Sabha today amid protests in...
WHY PANIC ABOUT PARTITIONING SL: PM
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said his government had not even worked out a draft of the new Constitution and as such no one should panic about moves being made...
CHILD AMONG 17 KILLED IN FIRE AT HOTEL IN DELHI’S KAROL BAGH, 2 JUMPED
More than two dozen fire engines were sent to the spot after the fire broke out on the top two floors of Hotel Arpit Palace around 4 am. Most...
PAKISTAN EYES $12B DEALS WITH SAUDI ARABIA
After decades of dependence on Saudi grants, Pakistan is poised to sign billions of dollars of investment deals with the kingdom during an upcoming visit of Crown Prince Mohammad...
ANXIOUS SLUM DWELLERS BLOCK ROADS IN DHAKA’S BHASHANTEK
Police are working to bring the situation under control
Slum dwellers have blocked the roads, protesting the eviction drive of the Bhashantek slums in Dhaka.
The protest took place on Tuesday.
According...
17 KILLED IN MASSIVE FIRE AT NEW DELHI HOTEL
The fire broke out at Hotel Arpit Palace on Gurudwara road in Karol Bagh at 4:35 a.m; six injured
A massive fire broke out at a central Delhi hotel on...
CAG REPORT ON RAFALE DEAL TO BE TABLED IN LOK SABHA TODAY
Amid new revelations that anti-corruption clauses in the Rafale deal with France were waived by the government, official sources have said the audit report of the Comptroller and Auditor-General...
PAKISTAN CLERIC’S REMARKS ON KASHMIR RED-FLAGGED
Pakistani cleric Tahir-ul-Qadri’s visit to India has run into trouble after security agencies red-flagged his recent speech that “Kashmiris should be able to choose freedom through a plebiscite.” His...
US envoy leading tour for ‘intra-Afghan’ talks
A senior US diplomat is set to lead a large delegation on a six-nation tour, including Afghanistan, to help invigorate that country’s peace process and bring “all Afghan parties...
Bangladesh stops more Rohingya taking risky trip to Malaysia
Bangladesh security forces stopped 22 Rohingya Muslims from being smuggled to Malaysia by boat, officials said on Monday (Feb 11), the second group in three days prevented from leaving...
Bhutan records lowest inflation at 3.13% in 2018
With an annual average of 2.69 percent last year, Bhutan recorded the lowest inflation since the National Statistics Bureau (NSB) began tracking it 15 years ago.
The Consumer Price Index...
Maldives defence minister in hot water over India comment
Maldives' defence minister Mariya Ahmed Didi could face the parliament over her contentious comments during a recent visit to neighbours India.
The first female defence minister, Mariya told SNI that...
20,000 Pakistan students to get Chinese scholarships every year
Stressing for enhanced people-to-people contacts to take Pak-China strategic partnership to new heights, China’s Ambassador in Islamabad Yao Jing Monday said his country had increased the number of its...
Myanmar takes over Naga camps near Indian border
The Myanmar Army has taken control of the headquarters of the ethnic Naga rebels in the country’s northwest – without either side firing a shot.
The rebels, formally known as...
The Rafale row rumbles on in India
The latest twist in the Indian government’s proposed acquisition of 36 Rafale fighter jets from French firm Dassault is more semantic than financial or technical. The negotiations were begun...
What Pakistan will gain from peace in Afghanistan
Pakistan’s expectations of substantial improvements in its security and trade relations with Afghanistan—and by extension with the United States—appear to be thin on the ground.
For starters, Pakistan expects that...
After criticizing vote, US charts careful course on Bangladesh
Bangladesh faced widespread international criticism over the conduct of recent elections, but the United States looks set for business as usual as it sees strong common interests with Prime...
Raheel Sharif-led IMCTC delegation arrives in Pakistan on first visit for talks
A delegation of Islamic Military Counter Terrorism Coalition (IMCTC), headed by former army chief General (retd) Raheel Sharif, arrived in Pakistan on it’s first-ever visit to the country on...
Myanmar army shelling villages in Rakhine ‘without any regard for human rights’
Myanmar soldiers are shelling villages, detaining civilians and blocking aid as part of a new crackdown in Rakhine state by some of the army units implicated in atrocities against...
36-hour bandh in India’s Manipur against citizenship bill
Peoples’ Alliance Manipur (PAM), an umbrella body of various civil society organizations, has called a 36-hour shutdown across Imphal, starting from 5am on Monday, in protest against the Citizenship...