Thu 12 September 2019: Authorities in Bangladesh fighting to control the spread of a deadly mosquito-borne virus, which has so far killed at least 60 people, have been warned the crisis could get worse. Despite desperate attempts to stem the outbreak of dengue fever, the Bangladeshi Ministry of Health and Family Welfare revealed on Tuesday […]
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Wed 11 September 2019: India is unhappy over the reference of situation in the occupied Kashmir in the Pakistan-China joint statement issued Sunday after the conclusion of visit by Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi to Islamabad. “We reject the reference to Jammu and Kashmir in the joint statement issued by China and Pakistan after the recent visit […]
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Mon 09 September 2019: Senior Journalist Ravish Kumar on Monday received the 2019 Ramon Magsaysay award, regarded as the Asian version of the Nobel Prize, in Manila, Philippines. Accepting the award, Ravish pointed out that the Indian media is in a state of “crisis” which is not accidental or random, but “systemic and structural”. Ravish, […]
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Sun 08 September 2019: The government could source for halal food from entrepreneurs for the proposed free breakfasts in schools, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim suggested today. Anwar, who is also PKR president, said he would seek to find ways to help entrepreneurs and talk to the relevant ministers. Anwar suggested that the food for the […]
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Sat 07 September 2019: As Pakistan observed its 54th Defense Day on Friday, Prime Minister Imran Khan vowed that Islamabad was prepared to give the “fullest possible” response to India’s actions in disputed Kashmir. Defense Day, which is held on September 6, marks the anniversary of the defense of the country’s territory in the 1965 […]
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Fri 06 September 2019: An Indian woman who says she is 73-years-old has given birth to twin girls, doctors said Friday. If the claim is true, she would be the oldest mother in the world. Erramatti Mangayamma was able to conceive after undergoing in-vitro fertilization (IVF) and delivered the twins via caesarean section in Guntur […]
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Fri 06 September 2019: Pakistan’s Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa said Pakistan is proud of its “special strategic and brotherly relationship” with the UAE and Saudi Arabia. The statement came as UAE’s Foreign Minister Shaikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan and Saudi Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Adel Al Jubeir called on the […]
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Thu 05 September 2019: A disturbing video of this incident that occurred in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh’s Alirajpur district on September 1, has gone viral on Twitter. We may have reached the 21st century, but caste-based violence still exists in India. Twitter users who shared the video are shocked. Indian filmmaker Vinod Kapri […]
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Tue 03 September 2019: Malaysian Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad today slammed several world superpowers for imposing sanctions on small countries in the region. He said the sanction would hurt not only the country involved but also other countries for “no reason at all”. “We have no quarrel with this country but we are […]
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Sun 01 September 2019: Indonesian police have arrested dozens of people in the easternmost region of Papua following protests last week in which buildings were set ablaze, a police spokesman said on Sunday. The area has been racked by civil unrest for two weeks over perceived racial and ethnic discrimination. Some protesters are also demanding […]
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