International News Updates

Islamabad: Pakistani weekly magazine ‘Friday Times’ has made a shocking revelation that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman was very wrathful from some works of Prime Minister Imran Khan during his visit to the United Nations General Assembly, hence, he asked to return PM’s fight to the US from midway. Before visiting the UNGA, Imran […]

Dhaka: Hindu community people in Bangladesh capital Dhaka on Sunday amassed at a temple to have blessings from a girl adorned as the living embodiment of their goddess Durga. During the five-day Durga Puja festival, the Hindu Goddess Durga is worshiped in her different forms and one of those is Kumari, the virgin form of […]

Kabul: Three Indian engineers who were taken hostage about six months ago in Afghanistan’s Baghlan province have been freed in exchange for 11 Taliban prisoners, a former commander of the militant group has said. The news was confirmed by Sayed Mohammad Akbar Agha on Sunday, TOLO News reported. According to Agha, the freed Taliban members […]

Kathmandu: Police in Nepal has arrested former Parliament Speaker Krishna Bahadur Mahara following a district courts permission to take him into custody to investigate attempt-to-rape charges levelled against him. Mahara has been taken to Metropolitan Police Circle, Singhadurbar, The Himalayan Times reported. The Kathmandu District Court had earlier granted permission to the Nepal Police to […]

Copenhagen: Three Americans, William G. Kaelin, Gregg. L. Semanza and Briton Peter J. Ratcliffe, were awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine on Monday. The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institute announced that the three recipients were recognized “for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability”, Efe news reported. With their work, they […]

Islamabad: Kashmir is in the blood of the Pakistani nation and the country and the army will stand by the Kashmiri people “no matter what,” the ailing former military ruler Pervez Musharraf has asserted, as he returned to active politics. General (retd) Musharraf, now based in Dubai, also referred to Kargil conflict and alleged that […]

Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday inaugurated the country’s largest poverty alleviation scheme to combat hunger by providing food to the poor, as part of his ambitious plan to build a Madina-like welfare state. The Ehsaas-Saylani Langar Scheme, which has been launched in coordination with the Saylani Trust, one of the country’s biggest […]

United Nations: A Chinese envoy on Monday called for the joint advancement of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) for sustainable development. “We should advance together the building of the Belt and Road (Initiative) to achieve high-quality development,” said Wu Haitao, China’s deputy permanent representative to the UN. The Belt and Road Initiative focuses on […]

Islamabad/Beijing: Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan arrived in Beijing on Tuesday on his third official visit to China where he is slated to discuss issues of regional and bilateral importance with Chinese President Xi Jinping and his counterpart Li Keqiang. Upon his arrival in Beijing, Khan was received by Chinese Minister of Culture and Tourism […]

Stockholm: Three scientists won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for their work in understanding how the universe has evolved, and the Earth’s place in it. The prize was given to James Peebles “for theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology,” and the other half jointly to Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz “for the discovery […]

Beijing: As Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan arrived here Tuesday for talks with Xi Jinping ahead of the Chinese President’s important visit to India, China said the Kashmir issue should be resolved between New Delhi and Islamabad, significantly omitting its recent references to the UN and UN Security Council resolutions. Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang […]

United Nations: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has again sounded a warning that the world organisation is facing a financial crunch and may run out of funds by the end of this month. With only 128 of the 193 member countries having paid their dues in full as of October 3, he has reportedly warned UN […]

Islamabad: India-born Asim Umar, the chief of the Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS), has been killed during a joint US-Afghan raid on a Taliban hideout in Afghanistan’s Helmand province, Afghan officials said on Tuesday. Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri had announced the formation of the AQIS to take the fight to India, Myanmar and Bangladesh […]

Islamabad: Pakistan’s ruling Imran Khan government has broken all previous records in borrowing money merely in the first year of its tenure. According to the official data, during the one-year regime of the present government Rs 7,509 billion (Pakistani currency) increase was recorded in the total debt of the country. A report in the Pakistani […]

Stockholm: Three scientists on Wednesday were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their contributions to the development of lithium-ion batteries, which have reshaped energy storage and transformed cars, mobile phones and many other devices in an increasingly portable and electronic world. The prize went to John B Goodenough of the University of Texas; M […]