Category: Asia

Thu 27 June 2019 President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to attend G20 Leaders’ Summit in Osaka, Japan Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday arrived in Japan to attend G20 Summit in the port city of Osaka. Erdogan and first lady Emine Erdogan were welcomed by Japanese Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs Kenji Yamada and Turkey’s Ambassador […]

In Balochistan, 1 policeman killed, 2 injured in suicide attack claimed by Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan Three suicide bombers stormed a police compound in southwestern Pakistan on Wednesday morning, killing one policeman and injuring two others, said officials. The militants, wearing suicide vests, stormed the compound in the remote Loralai district in Balochistan, said Inter-Services Public Relations, […]

Tue 25 June 2019: A water shortage could cut food exports from India, which has emerged as a leading supplier of a number of food products to the world, the water resources minister warned on Monday.  From being a food-deficit country, India has achieved the distinction of being a top exporter of food but to […]

Thu 24 June 2019: A train plunged into a canal when the bridge it was travelling across gave way, killing four people and injuring 100 more in Bangladesh on Monday. Officials said part of the bridge collapsd as the express train went over, sending five cars crashing to the ground, with one of them landing […]

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor says the Bill did nothing to benefit Muslim women New Delhi: The government on Friday introduced The Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill, 2019 banning Triple Talaq in the Lok Sabha amid criticism that it will harm Muslim families and was discriminatory. The opposition requested Lok Sabha Speaker Om […]

Thu 20 June 2019: A former top Indian policeman critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s alleged role in deadly anti-Muslim riots in 2002 has been jailed for life. Sanjiv Bhatt was convicted of murder in a case dating back 30 years. He alleged that Mr Modi, chief minister at the time of the violence in […]

Thu 20 June 2019: The British government has asked Pakistan to sign a treaty that would allow it to send thousands of Pakistani migrants with expired UK visas back to their home country, says Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi. Qureshi said he recently discussed the treaty with UK Home Secretary Sajid Javid, and appeared […]

Wed 19 June 2019: Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister, Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail said, Tuesday, that her country looks forward to a thorough report from Egypt, explaining the reasons that caused the death of former President, Mohamed Morsi. “Mr Morsi was the first democratically-elected President of Egypt following the 2011 Arab Spring revolution, whose term […]

Tue 18 June 2019: PATNA, India (AFP) – Angry protests erupted in one of India’s poorest states on Tuesday (June 18) over the deaths of more than 100 children from a mysterious brain fever potentially linked to lychees. So far this month, 103 children, mostly under 10 and malnourished, have died from Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) in […]

Mon 17 June 2019: NEW DELHI/KOLKATA (Reuters) – Hundreds of thousands of doctors across India went on strike on Monday demanding better working conditions, the country’s top medical body said, as the outrage over lax security conditions at hospitals escalated. The nationwide protests, affecting hundreds of hospitals, started after an attack at a medical college […]