Category: Asia

The World Bank (WB) has approved $165 million to help Bangladesh provide relief to Rohingya refugees in the country, the bank said in a statement. “The grant will help Bangladesh provide basic services and build disaster and social resilience for the Rohingya who have fled violence in Myanmar,” the statement said. Noting that Rohingya outnumbered more […]

KUALA LUMPUR: A Malaysian was sentenced to more than 10 years’ jail and three others were charged over insults against Islam and the Prophet Muhammad on social media, police said on Saturday. The sentence is believed to be the harshest such penalty on record in the Muslim-majority country, where concerns over racial and religious tensions […]

India has shot down a third Pakistani drone since border tensions escalated following a terror attack on Indian soldiers and its retaliatory strike against militants inside the Islamic republic, which led to a mid-air dogfight. After the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) intruded in Indian airspace in the northern border state of Rajasthan, around 7.30pm on […]

  Kane Tanaka, born in 1903, recognised by Guinness World Records A 116-year-old Japanese woman who loves playing the board game Othello has been named the world’s oldest living person by Guinness World Records. Kane Tanaka was recognised in a ceremony on Saturday at the nursing home where she lives in Fukuoka, in Japan’s south-west. […]

India has shot down a third Pakistani drone since border tensions escalated following a terror attack on Indian soldiers and its retaliatory strike against militants inside the Islamic republic, which led to a mid-air dogfight. After the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) intruded in Indian airspace in the northern border state of Rajasthan, around 7.30pm on […]

Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency also opens computer lab at school in port city of Karachi Turkey’s state-run aid agency has opened a computer lab and a technology classroom in a school in Pakistan’s port city of Karachi. The lab with a 20-student capacity and the 75-student capacity classroom were opened in Khadija Girls College by the […]

The protesters, almost outnumbered by police, waved banners and flags bearing the Islamic declaration of faith An estimated 1 million Muslims in China’s Xinjiang region are detained in camps where they are subjected to political indoctrination JAKARTA, Indonesia: Several hundred protesters chanted “God is Great” and “Get out, communist!” outside China’s embassy in the Indonesian […]

Assistance package follows $6bn in funding from Saudi Arabia, as Pakistan’s balance of payments crisis widens The United Arab Emirates will deposit $3bn in the central bank of Pakistan to help “enhance liquidity” as the country struggles with a balance of payments crisis, state media has said. The transfer of 11 billion dirhams by the government-owned […]

“There is complete impunity for those who take the law into their own hands. The poison has already spread and it is difficult to put this jinn back into the bottle. “New Delhi: Speaking to Karwan-e-Mohabbat India, Naseeruddin Shah expressed concern over the Bulandshahr violence and said that, “the death of a cow has more significance than that […]

The all-India bank strike has been called to demand an immediate revision of salaries of bank employees and also to protest against the impending merger of three nationalised banks. Customers queuing up outside ATMs and banks on Friday were greeted with shuttered gates as banks across the country went on a strike that will only end […]