By Mahua Venkatesh New Delhi, March 21: Pakistan’s once robust textile industry, considered the backbone of the economy, is under severe stress as several firms are inching towards default. Many of them have already shut…
By Mahua Venkatesh New Delhi, March 20: Saudi Arabia’s reluctance to provide any meaningful financial assistance to Pakistan, which is currently in the middle of an unprecedented economic crisis, is a wake-up call for Islamabad….
By Tarana Halim New Delhi, March 20: On the streets of Dhaka, while organising anti-Pakistan demonstrations to protest against Islamabad’s pitch against the Bangladesh war crimes trials, I popularised a slogan I had coined-Amar Mati,…
By Ahmed Ali Fayyaz New Delhi, March 20: Over six years after a bloody street turbulence in the valley, the Jammu and Kashmir Police’s State Investigation Agency (SIA), created on the pattern of the National…
By Rahul Kumar New Delhi, March 18: The Chinese embassy in Islamabad has asked Pakistan to release overdue payments to the tune of $1.5 billion to Chinese Independent Power Plants (IPPs) working under the mega…
By Rahul Kumar New Delhi, March 17: India has to invest massively in software, design and critical technologies like drones, hypersonic missiles and quantum computing if it has to fend off the challenge from China….
By Rahul Kumar New Delhi, March 16: The political turmoil brought about by former prime minister Imran Khan’s wranglings with Pakistan’s two big parties – Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP)…
By Darakhsha Qamar New Delhi, March 16: The recent instance of violence between the police and a group of people protesting against an Ahmadiyya community event that left 2 dead and at least 50 others,…
By Rahul Kumar New Delhi, March 15: The nearly $7 billion worth of sophisticated weapons that the US left behind in Afghanistan in the wake of Taliban advances are now being used by militant groups…
By Rajinder S Taggar Chandigarh, March 15: The Canadian Border Security Agency (CBSA) has issued deportation notices to over 700 Indian students whose admission offer letters to educational institutions were found to be fake. Talking…
By Santosh Ghimire Kathmandu, March 15: The Nepali Congress, largest party in Nepal’s parliament, is all set to join the Prachanda-led coalition government next week, according to party leaders. Prakash Sharan Mahat, spokesperson for the…
By Rahul Kumar New Delhi, March 14: India plans to hold a four-day training programme for Afghan Foreign Ministry officials in Kabul beginning Tuesday. The news regarding the training was issued by the Taliban government’s…
By Ashutosh Kumar Shimla, March 14: In the biggest drug seizure drive in Mandi two days back, a scrap dealer – Kali Dass, 42, hailing from Balh, landed up in the police net for being…
By Ahmed Ali Fayyaz New Delhi, March 13: While investigating the involvement of a number of the Kashmiri separatist leaders in a scandal of admission of many students in Pakistan’s medical and engineering colleges, the…
By Mahua Venkatesh New Delhi, March 13: The deepening economic crisis in Pakistan is leading to a large number of school dropouts. With surging inflation and shortage of essential items including food, many children are…
By Rana Banerji New Delhi, March 13: Talking to a private media channel in connection with an International Women’s Day programme (Lahore, March 08), Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) Vice President, Maryam Nawaz called for the…
By Santosh Ghimire Kathmandu, March 11: Nepal’s Supreme Court started hearing a petition on Friday which seeks the immediate arrest of Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal alias Prachanda and launch probe into his Maoist party…
By Rajinder S. Taggar Chandigarh, March 9: In a shocking fraud committed in connivance with revenue officials, the Indian Air Force’s emergency airfield (Jahaz Ground) in Ferozepur Cantonment has been sold off to private persons….
By Syed Badrul Ahsan New Delhi, March 4: On March 7, 1971 the people of Bangladesh crossed the Rubicon. When Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman rose to address a million-strong crowd in Dhaka on the day,…
Rahul Kumar New Delhi, March 4: Tensions are building up between Afghanistan and Pakistan over the harsh treatment being meted out to Afghan refugees recently. Pakistan is reportedly detaining Afghans who hold official UNHCR refugee…