Iraq’s Prime Minister, Haider al-Abadi, on Monday said that the nation’s forces have launched a campaign to retake Mosul, the self-declared capital of the IS. Artillery began firing on the city early on Monday, in a long-awaited assault from Kurdish Peshmerga, Iraqi government and allied forces. Tanks are also moving[Read More…]
At least 30 people were killed in Pakistan when two buses collided in southern Punjab province, police said on Monday. Images from the crash site showed a bus on its side with its windows shattered, and another bus with its roof partly caved in. Officials said the buses collided at[Read More…]
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has termed India as a “key strategic ally.” He also said that if voted to power India and the US would become “best friends” and have a “phenomenal future” together. “We are going to have a phenomenal future together,” Trump said at an event by[Read More…]
The Chinese media on Saturday denounced the West’s ‘bad mouthing’ of the BRICS nations, saying disagreements among the members are ‘minor’ and cooperation is the norm. “BRICS countries themselves are different in many aspects. China and India have lived with territorial disputes, but the geopolitical contention between them is mostly[Read More…]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi called out to India’s ‘old friend’ Russia in a joint address at the sidelines of the BRICS Summit before holding wide-ranging talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, which covered the entire expanse of bilateral engagement. The engagement witnessed 16 agreements being signed between the two countries.[Read More…]
Volkswagen AG (VW) has agreed to pay $175 million to US lawyers suing the German automaker on behalf of the owners of 475,000 polluting vehicles, two people briefed on the agreement said. In August, the lawyers in the class action litigation sought up to $332.5 million in fees and costs[Read More…]
The US on Saturday told Pakistan to go after those terrorists who seek and “sometimes find safe haven” in the country and delegitimise all terror groups operating on its soil. “We continue to urge Pakistan to take action to combat and delegitimise all terrorist groups operating on its soil,” State[Read More…]
Russian President Vladimir Putin said the five-nation bloc of emerging economies was “determined” to cooperate in the fight against terrorism. “For our five countries’ leaders this meeting (in Goa) will be a good opportunity to harmonise our positions on key issues on the international agenda. We are determined to cooperate[Read More…]
China is set to sign off on loans worth over $24 billion to Bangladesh during President Xi Jinping’s visit on Friday. China plans to finance around 25 projects, including a 1,320 megawatt (MW) power plant, and is also keen to build a deep sea port in Bangladesh. Japan has also offered finance[Read More…]
India blocked a climate change project from Pakistan at the Green Climate Fund, raising eyebrows at the meeting in South Korea. The project, meant to reduce the risk of floods caused by bursting glacial lakes, is to be located in the Gilgit-Baltistan region. Dinesh Sharma, special secretary in the finance[Read More…]
In a scathing attack on the Nawaz Sharif government, Chief Justice of Pakistan Anwar Zaheer Jamali said the country was being run like a “monocracy” in the name of democracy, the Dawn reported on Friday. “This court has repeatedly been saying that monocracy exists in this country in the name[Read More…]
Lashkar-e-Taiba, which has been designated as a terrorist organisation by the UN, is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of innocent lives, including American citizens, the US has said even as it refused to comment on the outfit’s leader Hafiz Saeed. “I’m not going to respond to comments that may[Read More…]
India and Russia are likely to ink almost 18 agreements on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to Goa for the 17th India-Russia annual summit meet on Saturday. The main areas of concern will be Defence and nuclear cooperation and Putin is likely to inaugurate the third and fourth units of the Kudankulam[Read More…]
In a sign of improving relations among both countries, China on Thursday said ‘sound and stable’ development of ties in recent years has proved that the ‘dragon’ and the ‘elephant’ can join hands and peacefully co-exist. “Once, predictions about our future relations dwelled on ‘rivalry between the dragon and the[Read More…]
Almost a quarter of the coral on the Great Barrier Reef of Australia which is 1,400 miles long, with 2,900 individual reefs and 1,050 islands is now dead. The coral deaths followed intense coral bleaching, which was caused by global warming and influenced by the whims of the weather Hot[Read More…]
American singer and songwriter Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday. The Swedish Academy said Dylan ‘created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition’. Dylan was born Robert Allen Zimmerman in 1941 and began his musical career in 1959, playing in coffee houses in[Read More…]
Acclaimed playwright, theatre actor and Nobel Laureate Dario Fo passed away at the age of 90 in Milan. Famous for his cutting political satires, he won the Nobel prize for literature in 1997 and his most famous works include, ‘Accidental Death of an Anarchist’ and ‘Can’t Pay? Won’t Pay!’ He[Read More…]
Rejecting references by Pakistan on the condition of women in Kashmir, India said that innocent women have suffered for long due to persistent terror attacks by ‘proxies of Pakistan’. The statement was made by Counsellor Mayank Joshi in India’s Permanent Mission to the UN, reports PTI. Joshi exercised India’s Right[Read More…]
After the failed missile attack attempts on a US Navy destroyer, the Pentagon has responded by launching cruise missile strikes on three coastal radar sites in Yemen controlled by Iran-aligned Houthi forces. BBC reports that the attack which took place on Thursday was authorised by President Obama and was carried[Read More…]
Days after Donald Trump said that he had never engaged in such a behavior, three women have accused Donald Trump of groping or kissing them without their consent in news reports published Wednesday. As reported by the New York Times, one of the women alleges that Trump grabbed her breasts[Read More…]
Masood Azhar, the Jaish-e-Muhammad chief has called for jihadist and militant groups to be allowed to launch offensives against India. Published in Jaish weekly al-Qalam, it said, “If the government of Pakistan shows a little courage, “the problem of Kashmir, as well as the dispute over water, can be resolved[Read More…]
The UN headquarters in New York was witness to several members of the Sikh community protesting outside the building, raising concerns over the escalating India-Pak tensions and its impact on the lives of the people in Punjab. The ‘Save Punjab Rally’, organised on Tuesday by rights group Sikhs for Justice[Read More…]
Pakistani government has been slammed by Amnesty International for its “crude” imposition of a travel ban on Cyril Almeida for reporting the clash between civilian officials and military over covert support for militants. The assistant editor at Dawn, was placed under the country’s “Exit Control List,” and was forbidden from[Read More…]
Chinese experts have said the sealing of the border, announced by the Indian government last week is “irrational” and will set back bilateral ties. The move reflects India’s “Cold War mentality”, one expert said Hu Zhiyong, a research fellow from the official think-tank, Institute of International Relations of the Shanghai[Read More…]
The ‘vitiated’ atmosphere in the wake of the Uri terror attack is said to be stated as one of Bhutan’s primary reasons for pulling out of the Saarc summit, reports PTI. The nation conveyed the decision to the Saarc chair in Nepal, supporting India’s national interest. “We also share concerns[Read More…]
