Category: South Asia

Chinese Police interrogate Tibetans arrested over dam protests

New Delhi, Feb 25 (SocialNews.XYZ) Chinese Police have started wide-scale, rigorous interrogations of Tibetans arrested for protesting against a dam…

9 months ago

Social media shutdown enters seventh day in Pakistan

Islamabad, Feb 24 (SocialNews.XYZ) Despite the passage of seven days, the services of social media giant X, formerly Twitter, remained…

9 months ago

Bangladesh plans to produce FMD vaccine for livestock

Dhaka, Feb 23 (SocialNews.XYZ) Bangladeshi Fisheries and Livestock Minister Abdur Rahman has said the government has a plan to produce…

9 months ago

PTI offered ‘lucrative position’ for making rigging allegations, claims ex-Rawalpindi Commissioner

Islamabad, Feb 22 (SocialNews.XYZ) Withdrawing all his allegations related to rigging in the February 8 general elections in Pakistan, former…

9 months ago

Imran wants IMF aid to Pakistan stalled over ‘rigged’ elections

Rawalpindi, Feb 22 (SocialNews.XYZ) Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan will write to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), demanding to…

9 months ago

PTI to hold intra-party elections on March 3

Islamabad, Feb 22 (SocialNews.XYZ) Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Thursday announced to hold intra-party polls on March 3. Previous intra-party polls…

9 months ago

US asks Pakistan to respect freedom of expression, end social media curbs

Washington, Feb 22 (SocialNews.XYZ) The US has asked Pakistan to respect freedom of expression and restore access to X and…

9 months ago

NGO in Mizoram holds demonstration against fencing along Myanmar border, scraping of FMR

Aizawl, Feb 21 (SocialNews.XYZ) The NGO Coordination Committee (NGOCC), a grouping of five major civil society organisations and student bodies…

9 months ago

Calls grow in Nepal for restoration of Hindu state

Kathmandu, Feb 21 ( IANS) Nepal is witnessing a growing call for the restoration of the Hindu state. The erstwhile…

9 months ago

PML-N, PPP clinch deal; Shehbaz Sharif set to be Pak PM; Asi Ali Zardari slated to be Prez

Islamabad, Feb 21 (SocialNews.XYZ) PML-N president Shehbaz Sharif is set to become the Prime Minister of Pakistan while PPP co-chairman…

9 months ago

Pakistan’s major parties agree to form coalition govt

Islamabad, Feb 22 (SocialNews.XYZ) Pakistan's two major political parties, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistan People's Party (PPP), agreed to…

9 months ago

73 students hospitalised following wasp attack in Sri Lanka

Colombo, Feb 21 (SocialNews.XYZ) A total of 73 school children from Passara National School in Sri Lanka's Uva province were…

9 months ago

Afghan govt allows girls to enroll in state-owned medical institutes

Kabul, Feb 21 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Afghan caretaker government has allowed girls graduating from 12th grade to get admission to state-owned…

9 months ago

In a message from jail, Imran terms Pak polls as ‘mother of all rigging’

Rawalpindi, Feb 20 (SocialNews.XYZ) Imran Khan’s sister Aleema Khan said on Tuesday that the PTI chief has termed the February…

9 months ago

Consensus reached over Afghanistan issue despite Taliban’s absence: UN chief

Doha, Feb 20 (SocialNews.XYZ) UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said that international representatives have reached consensus on some key issues…

9 months ago

Pak’s uncertain political landscape could complicate IMF deal: Fitch

Islamabad, Feb 19 (SocialNews.XYZ) The closely-contested outcome of the February 8 general elections in Pakistan and the ensuing political ambiguity…

9 months ago

India launches construction of houses for plantation workers in Sri Lanka

Colombo, Feb 19 (SocialNews.XYZ) India has launched the construction of houses for the Indian origin plantation workers across six different…

9 months ago

Services of social media platform X disrupted in Pak for third day

Islamabad, Feb 19 (SocialNews.XYZ) Services of social media platform X, formerly Twitter, remained disrupted for the third consecutive day in…

9 months ago

Sri Lankans urged to use electricity sparingly as demand spikes due to dry weather

Colombo, Feb 19 (SocialNews.XYZ) Sri Lanka's state-owned electricity producer and distributor, the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB), has urged people to…

9 months ago

Rawalpindi Commissioner resigns in protest against rigging in Pakistan polls

Rawalpindi, Feb 17 (SocialNews.XYZ) Commissioner Rawalpindi Division Liaquat Ali Chatta on Saturday resigned from his post in protest against electoral…

9 months ago



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