BANGKOK (TIP): A fire extinguisher exploded and killed a student during a fire drill held outdoors in sweltering heat at a high school in Thailand’s capital on June 23, police said. Five other students were […]
COLOMBO (TIP): Sri Lanka is not in the position to hold a snap presidential election this year because of the ongoing economic crisis and the government’s focus is on debt restructuring, Cabinet Spokesman Bandula Gunawardena […]
BANGKOK (TIP): Recent fierce fighting between Myanmar’s army and local militant groups has killed at least 26 civilians, including six children, in area east of the capital, according to reports on June 15 by a […]
COLOMBO (TIP): A group of Sri Lankan Army doctors have set a Guinness World Record by removing the world’s largest kidney stone, surpassing the previous record registered by Indian doctors in 2004. The stone, removed […]
KARACHI (TIP): The coastal regions of Pakistan were on high alert on June 15 with over 82,000 people being evacuated to safer places in the southern Sindh province as Cyclone Biparjoy, currently classified as a […]
KARACHI (TIP): Pakistan’s cash-strapped government unveiled a 14.5 trillion rupee (around $50.5 billion) budget on June 9, with over half set aside to service 7.3 trillion rupees of debt. Pakistan’s economy has been stricken by […]
Badakhshan (TIP): A bomb exploded on June 8 in Afghanistan’s northeastern Badakhshan province killing a former Taliban police official. The official identified as Safiullah Samim, was killed during a memorial ceremony for a deputy governor […]
DHAKA (TIP): Bangladesh has shut thousands of schools as it struggles through its lengthiest heatwave in half a century, with widespread power cuts only compounding locals’ misery. Temperatures in the South Asian nation’s capital of […]
SINGAPORE (TIP): An Indian-origin has won SGD18,888 in cash at the company’s dinner-and-dance event in the hit South Korean survival drama Squid Game, where players compete to win life-altering rewards, but minus the deadly stakes. […]
KATHMANDU, New Delhi (Tip): Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Nepalese counterpart Pushpakamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ on June 1 vowed to resolve the vexed boundary dispute in the spirit of friendship even as the two sides […]
LAHORE (TIP): The Pakistan government on June 2 urged the country’s media houses to refrain from publishing or broadcasting speeches, statements, tweets or pictures of former prime minister Imran Khan. The government said it was […]
COLOMBO (TIP): Sri Lanka is drafting new legislation to curb the growing incidents of religious slander and online vitriol, according to the country’s religious affairs minister. The move comes after a stand-up comedian Nathasha Edirisooriya […]
Colombo (TIP) : Sri Lanka has summoned the Canadian High Commissioner here and registered a strong protest over Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s “Tamil Genocide” comment on the 14th anniversary of the end of the […]
Islamabad (TIP) : Pakistan’s government has barred former prime minister Imran Khan and his wife along with at least 80 people from leaving the country, a media report said on May 25. Khan and several […]
Kabul (TIP) : An Afghan military helicopter crashed in the country’s north on May 21 after hitting a power line base, killing two pilots, the Defence Ministry said. The MD-530 chopper was patrolling in the […]
KATHMANDU (TIP): Veteran mountaineer Kami Rita Sherpa scaled Mt Everest for a record 28th time on May 23, breaking his own record with the highest number of ascends on the world’s highest peak, less than […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): A prominent Pakistani television journalist known for his public support of former Prime Minister Imran Khan has gone missing, the police, his family and his employer said. Sami Abrahim’s disappearance was first announced […]
LAHORE (TIP): Punjab Police on May 19 obtained warrants to conduct a detailed search at former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan’s Zaman Park residence here to find “terrorists” reportedly hiding there, media reports said. The […]
BANGKOK (TIP): The official death toll from the powerful cyclone that struck Myanmar has burgeoned to at least 145, including 117 members of the Muslim Rohingya minority, state television reported May 19. It said the […]
KATHMANDU (TIP): A 59-year-old Indian climber, aiming to set a new world record of becoming Asia’s first woman on a pacemaker to scale Mt Everest, died on May 18 after falling sick at the base […]
Kathmandu (TIP): Ten Indian nationals, including three women, have been arrested here for allegedly acquiring Nepali citizenship cards illegally by producing fake documents, police said. A Kathmandu Valley Crime Investigation Office team apprehended the Indian […]
Islamabad (TIP): In yet another effort to build trust with the Taliban government, China and Pakistan agreed to include Afghanistan as part of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Sources here pointed out that China […]
Kathmandu (TIP) : Former Home Minister and influential leader of Nepali Congress Bal Krishna Khand was arrested on May 10 for his alleged involvement in the fake Bhutanese refugee scam. He was arrested for his […]
Karachi (TIP) : The Pakistani authorities are expected to go ahead with their goodwill gesture to release on May 10 199 Indian fishermen arrested for allegedly fishing illegally in the country’s waters, despite the death […]
Islamabad (TIP) : Afghanistan’s interim Taliban regime Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi has asked Pakistan and the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) to sit together for a dialogue, amid a sharp increase in deadly attacks on […]
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