Colombo, Aug 17 : Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe said that in addition to English, children in the island nation will also have to learn Hindi and Chinese in the future to fit into the chan ...
Read moreIslamabad, Aug 17 : Pakistan's caretaker government and its cabinet on Thursday officially took over as the selected cabinet members took oath at the President House. The formation of the cabinet ...
Read moreKabul, Aug 15 : It is now two years since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan, during which time it has imposed the most comprehensive, systematic and unparalleled assault on the rights of women a ...
Read moreIslamabad, Aug 15 : Two people were killed and 85 others injured in separate incidents of celebratory aerial firing in Karachi to mark Pakistan's 77th Independence Day on August 14, police said. Th ...
Read moreDhaka, Aug 15 : Amid an ongoing dengue outbreak, Bangladesh registered the second-highest number of fatalities on a single day since January this year, taking the overall death toll to 416, the Direct ...
Read moreNew Delhi, August 15 : The speed at which Afghanistan fell to the Taliban on this day two years ago exposed the faulty intelligence of both the US and Pakistani intelligence communities. It was not j ...
Read moreNew Delhi, August 15 : The Pakistani rupee (PKR) witnessed a significant drop on Tuesday -- the first day of the caretaker government taking over the reins of power in the centre -- and closed at a th ...
Read moreNew Delhi, Aug 14 : India on Monday called for withdrawal of troops from friction points in eastern Ladakh during the 19th round of Corps Commander-level talks with China. The Indian delegation ...
Read moreDhaka, Aug 14 : As a significant surge in dengue fever cases has gripped Bangladesh, the World Health Organization (WHO) called for efforts to control the mosquito vector population and minimize indiv ...
Read moreBeijing, Aug 14 : The death toll in a rain-triggered rock and mudslide in the suburbs of Xian, the capital of northwest China's Shaanxi Province, has risen to 21, with six others still missing, rescue ...
Read more