Tue 27 December 2022: Analysts say the government must assert its dominance and immediately devise a strategy to counter escalating attacks. Islamabad, Pakistan – Pakistan is facing a resurgence of violent attacks, with analysts saying the government must immediately devise a strategy to counter the threat to internal security as the country heads into an election […]
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Mon 26 December 2022: Former Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, ousted in July following mass protests, departed from the Sri Lankan Bandaranaike International Airport to the United States together with his family, the Daily Mirror newspaper reported on Monday, The ex-top official left the country with his spouse Ioma, daughter-in-law Sewandi, his son Manoj and […]
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Mon 26 December 2022: Taiwan’s defense ministry reported on Monday that China has sent 71 airplanes and seven ships to the island in a 24-hour show of force. The People’s Liberation Army claimed it had carried out a “strike drill” on Sunday in reaction to unnamed “provocations” and “collusion” between the United States and the […]
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Mon 26 December 2022: After weeks at sea, dozens of weak and starving Rohingya refugees were discovered on a beach in Aceh, Indonesia’s most northern province, authorities said. According to the local police commander Rolly Yuiza Away, the group of 58 men landed on Indrapatra beach at Ladong, a fishing village in Aceh Besar district, […]
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Sun 25 December 2022: China’s National Health Commission, which for the past three years or so has published daily COVID-19 case figures for the country, said it will no longer release such data from Sunday. “Relevant COVID information will be published by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention for reference and research,” the NHC said in a […]
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Sat 24 December 2022: The Indian Health Ministry has given a fresh six-point advisory to the states to face any Covid emergency amid rising cases in neighbouring China. India has reported a handful of the BF.7 strain that’s running amok in China. All travellers coming from China, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong and Thailand will […]
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Sat 24 December 2022: The COVID-19 virus may have infected about 37 million individuals in China on a single day this week, according to a report from the Bloomberg news agency, which was based on information from the minutes of a National Health Commission meeting that took place on Wednesday. Overall, according to the estimate, […]
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Fri 23 December 2022: French serial killer Charles Sobhraj, also known as the ‘Bikini Killer’, has been released from a Nepali jail on Friday (Dec 23). As per an AFP report, Sobhraj was being transferred to the immigration detention centre ahead of his deportation to France. Sobhraj’s lawyer, however, said his client wanted to get […]
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Fri 23 December 2022: The minister of higher education in Afghanistan’s Taliban government has defended his decision to ban women from universities – a decree that triggered a global backlash and protests inside the country. Afghanistan’s Taliban-run administration announced earlier this week it had closed universities to women partly due to female students not adhering to its interpretation of […]
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Fri 23 December 2022: Setting an example of dedication and devotion, Arbin Tahir, a high school student from Jammu and Kashmir’s Bandipora has written the Holy Quran consisting of 900 pages with her own hands in six months. According to a report, Arbin is a student of Giariyan Jamaat in 11th standard and has always […]
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