International News Updates

New Delhi: Ahead of next week’s Paris meeting of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), a Netherlands-based think-tank has said that despite the scathing indictment by the Asia Pacific Group (APG), Pakistan is likely to remain on FATF’s grey list. The European Foundation for South Asian Studies (EFSAS) has said that “there is little doubt […]

Lahore: On the occasion of 550th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak in November this year, Pakistan will issue 10,000 visas to Sikh pilgrims. The first batch of devotees will leave for Pakistan in the first week of November by a special train. The pilgrims will proceed to the Wagah railway station from the Atari railway […]

Tokyo: At least 18 people have been killed and 13 were reported missing on Sunday after the powerful super typhoon Hagibis ravaged central and eastern Japan, with torrential rains causing a number of rivers to overflow into residential areas of the country. At least 149 people have been injured across the country, Efe news quoted […]

Islamabad: The Pakistan Railways (PR) will on Sunday operate a special train from Nankana Sahib railway station to Karachi to facilitate members of the Sikh community on the 550th birth anniversary Guru Nanak Dev, the founder of Sikhism. The train will leave Nankana Sahib at 10 a.m. for Karachi via Shorkot Cantt, Khanewal, Rohri, Nawab […]

Kathmandu: Chinese President Xi Jinping has said that China will provide Nepalese Rs 56 billion assistance to Kathmandu over the next two years to help Nepal’s development programmes as the two countries inked 20 agreements on Sunday to bolster their bilateral ties. Xi, who arrived here on Saturday after a two-day informal summit with Prime […]

United Nations: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said he was saddened by the loss of life and extensive destruction caused by Typhoon Hagibis in Japan. At least 35 people have died, and another 17 missing on Sunday as Hagibis ripped through Japan including the Tokyo metropolitan area, causing multiple rivers to overflow and blackouts in […]

Beijing: Chinese President Xi Jinping has issued a stern warning against dissent as protests continue in Hong Kong, saying any attempt to divide China will end in “crushed bodies and shattered bones”. His comments came during a state visit to Nepal on Sunday, the BBC reported citing China’s state broadcaster CCTV. Several peaceful Hong Kong […]

Islamabad/Paris: A Pakistani delegation, headed by Economic Affairs Minister Hammad Azhar, has reached Paris to attend a crucial two-day session of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) set to commence on Monday. According to sources, the FATF meeting would discuss a report on the steps taken by Pakistan till April 2019 and a decision would […]

The 2019 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel has been awarded to Indian-American Abhijit Banerjee along with Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer “for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty.” The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has announced the prize on Monday, 14 October. Born in Kolkata, Banerjee is an […]

New York: Indian-American MIT professor Abhijit Banerjee, who jointly won the 2019 Nobel Economics Prize with his wife Esther Duflo and Harvard professor Michael Kremer, on Monday said he is delighted that work focussed on the world’s poorest people has been awarded the prestigious prize and it honours all the people working on the ground […]

New York: The newly-minted economics Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee has warned that the Indian economy is going into “a tailspin” and his prescription for the government is to focus on increasing demand rather than deficits or stability. “The economy going into a tailspin is the time when you don’t worry so much about monetary stability […]

Kathmandu: Nepal and China have agreed to jointly re-measure the height of Mount Everest, amidst reports that the world’s highest peak may have shrunk after the massive earthquake that shook the Himalayan nation in 2015. Many geologists have argued that the magnitude 7.6 earthquake that jolted Nepal in April 2015 may have shrunk the mountain […]

London: The judging panel for the Booker Prize in London named Canadian writer Margaret Atwood and British author Bernardine Evaristo as the winners of the prestigious literary award. Despite the fact that the rules of the competition say that the award may only be bestowed on a single individual each year, the judging panel decided […]

Dubai: Showing great gesture of humanity, a Dubai-based Indian businessman has bought one-way tickets for 13 foreign prisoners The foreign prisoners are from Pakistan, Bangladesh, China and Afghanistan. Such an act of kindness of the bizman will be helpful to the prisoners in returning home after they have been released from a Dubai prison, a […]

Wellington: New Zealand Minister of Civil Defence Peeni Henare said on Wednesday that hundreds of thousands of New Zealanders will join about 65 million people around the globe in ShakeOut, the world’s biggest earthquake drill on Thursday. The annual drill is to remind people of the right action to be taken during an earthquake which […]