COX’S BAZAR (TIP): Four Rohingya refugees were killed during a gunfight between two insurgent groups in Bangladesh, police said December 6, in the latest sign of deteriorating security in the country’s overcrowded relief camps. Bangladesh […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Jailed former prime minister Imran Khan will not contest the intra-party polls and has instead nominated barrister Gohar Khan for the post of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chairman to lead the party in the upcoming […]
COLOMBO (TIP): Sri Lanka’s inflation more than doubled to 3.4 per cent in November, the statistics office said November 30, a day after Colombo announced a deal to restructure nearly $6 billion in bilateral debt. […]
DHAKA (TIP): Bangladesh’s main opposition on November 30 officially boycotted the upcoming general elections, removing the only party that could have offered a realistic challenge to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s fourth consecutive term in power. […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): The Islamabad High Court on November 21 declared illegal the August 29 notification which had directed jail authorities to keep former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan in “judicial lockup” in the cipher case, […]
BANGKOK (TIP): Thailand’s Cabinet on November 21 approved an amendment to its civil code to allow same-sex marriage, with an expectation for the draft to be submitted to Parliament next month. Karom Polpornklang, a deputy […]
DHAKA (TIP): Bangladeshi trans woman Yasin Ahmed Sokal always wanted the freedom to dress like her sisters, but never in her wildest dreams did she imagine being showered with applause at a beauty pageant in […]
ISLAMABAD/LONDON (TIP): Cash-strapped Pakistan reportedly earned USD 364 million in an arms deal with two private US companies last year to supply ammunition to Ukraine in its war with Russia, according to a media report. […]
BIREUEN (AFP): About 250 desperate Rohingya refugees reached western Indonesia on a decrepit, overcrowded wooden boat November 16, bringing the total number reported by local officials to have arrived this week to nearly 600. The […]
Dhaka (TIP): Bangladesh is set to hold its 12th general elections on January 7, 2024, announced the Chief Election Commissioner, Kazi Habibul Awal, on Wednesday. The announcement of elections comes against a backdrop of nationwide […]
YANGON (TIP): Myanmar’s military has lost control of a strategic town on the Chinese border following days of clashes with ethnic armed groups, in what analysts say is the biggest military challenge it has faced […]
Islamabad (TIP): At least 1,65,000 Afghans living in Pakistan without valid documents have left the country since the government ordered all illegal foreigners to leave or face forcible expulsion, officials said. The government earlier last […]
Peshawar (TIP) : A bomb blast near a police patrol killed at least five people and injured 21 others in Pakistan’s restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on November 3 in the latest attack on security personnel […]
Lahore (TIP): Lahore, the capital of Pakistan’s Punjab province, was one of the most polluted major cities across the world for the second consecutive day on November 2, according to a global air quality monitoring […]
KABUL (TIP): A police spokesman on October 27 raised the death toll from an explosion in a mostly Shiite Muslim neighbourhood of the Afghan capital, Kabul, to four, with seven people critically injured. The cause […]
NEW DELHI, Dhaka (TIP): : Pakistan should apologise to Bangladesh for its actions during the 1971 liberation war, said AKM Mozammel Haque, the country’s minister for Liberation War Affairs, during his visit to New Delhi […]
YANGON (TIP): An alliance of Myanmar ethnic rebel groups launched coordinated attacks on the military across the north of the country on October 27 morning, rebels and media said. The military’s 2021 putsch sparked renewed […]
Dhaka (TIP): At a “Peace and Development Rally” organized on October 9 by Bangladesh’s ruling Awami League, a government official responded to perceived criticism over the government’s recent import of Russian uranium by reportedly threatening […]
PESHAWAR (TIP): Four Pakistani soldiers and eight terrorists were killed in two separate encounters during cleanup operations in the restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan, the army said on October 20. Six terrorists and four […]
Islamabad (TIP): Ahead of his return to Pakistan on October 21, ex-Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s legal team has filed two protective bail petitions in the Islamabad High Court to restrain authorities from arresting the PML-N […]
Colombo (TIP): Sri Lanka and the IMF have reached a crucial staff-level agreement to release the second tranche of about USD 330 million out of the USD 2.9 billion bailout package which will help in […]
Colombo (TIP) : Twenty-seven Indian fishermen were arrested for allegedly poaching in Sri Lanka’s territorial waters, the island nation’s navy said on October 18. The fishermen were arrested off the coast of Mannar in the […]
COLOMBO (TIP): The Sri Lankan government has confirmed that it has concluded a preliminary deal with China on the restructuring of its debts to Beijing, seen as a “big step” in the cash-strapped country’s economic […]
BANGKOK (TIP): Twenty-nine people were killed and dozens wounded in a military strike on a camp for displaced people in northern Myanmar, a spokesman for an ethnic rebel group that controls the area told AFP […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): More than 90% of the people killed by a 6.3-magnitude earthquake in western Afghanistan last weekend were women and children, U.N. officials reported on October 12. Taliban officials said Saturday’s earthquake killed more […]
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