Category: Asia

Tue 09 July 2019: Bollywood actress Esha Gupta has stirred up controversy online, after accusing a Delhi-based hotelier of “raping her with his eyes.” “This guy was literally raping me with his eyes. He was requested to behave thrice and then leave..then eventually 2 guards had to be around me..even the security cam can confirm […]

Mon 08 July 2019: At least 29 people were killed Monday after a bus careered off one of India’s busiest roads which has become known as the “highway to hell” because of its poor safety record. The driver was suspected to have fallen asleep before the bus crashed into a railing and fell into a […]

Sun 07 July 2019: Taliban Islamist fighters killed at least eight Afghan security force members and four civilians, as well as wounding more than 50 civilians, by blowing up a car bomb in central Ghazni province on Sunday, government officials and the Taliban said. The Taliban claimed responsibility for detonating the bomb near the National […]

Sat 06 July 2019: In recent years due to poor infrastructure, lack of proper water policy, say experts “Only rain can help us,” said a resident of Chennai, the capital of India’s southern state of Tamil Nadu, voicing her frustration over its mismanagement of a severe water crisis. Shreya Singh, a consultant in central Chennai, […]

Fri 05 July 2019: A Muslim doctor falsely accused of secretly sterilizing Buddhist women in Sri Lanka remains in detention weeks after his arrest, despite investigators saying he was framed. Mohamed Shafi was arrested on May 24 over claims he had carried out the illegal sterilizations of thousands of Sinhalese women. But court documents seen […]

Fri 05 July 2019: The Malaysian producer of Hollywood film “The Wolf of Wall Street” and stepson of the country’s disgraced ex-leader was Friday charged with illegally receiving almost $250 million from state fund 1MDB.Riza Aziz pleaded not guilty to five charges of money laundering when he appeared in a Kuala Lumpur court.He is accused […]

Thu 04 July 2019: Prime Minister Imran Khan will travel to Washington to meet US President Donald Trump on July 22, the Pakistani foreign ministry said on Thursday, a rare visit between leaders of the sometimes prickly allies. The visit – Khan’s first to the US since coming to power last year – came at […]

Wed 03 July 2019: SRINAGAR (Reuters) – Curbs on civilian traffic along a highway linking disputed Kashmir to the rest of India, imposed for a Hindu pilgrimage, have angered residents of the Muslim-majority region. The six-week Amarnath Yatra began on Monday and will see hundreds of thousands of Hindu pilgrims trek to a holy cave […]

Tue 02 July 2019: According to TribuneNews.com, the 52-year-old woman, identified only by her initials “S.M.”, had charged into the mosque and began loudly demanding to see her husband. It is understood that S.M. suspected that her husband was in the process of having his second marriage solemnised at the mosque – and she was […]