BANGKOK (TIP): An Indian state-owned arms manufacturer has shipped artillery barrels to military-ruled Myanmar, an activist group said March 1, warning they could be used by the junta in its crackdown on dissent. Myanmar has […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has ordered the foreign ministry to slash the number of missions abroad and reduce their offices, staff and initiate other measures to cut down expenditures of the debt-ridden […]
DHAKA (TIP): The only newspaper of Bangladesh’s main opposition party halted printing on February 20 after a government suspension order was upheld, stoking fears about media freedom in the South Asian nation. Campaigners and foreign […]
Islamabad (TIP): Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan on February 20 thwarted the government’s plan to arrest him by personally appearing before the Lahore High Court, which granted him protective bail till March 3 in […]
MAYILADUTHURAI (TIP): Six fishermen from Tharangambadi in the district were allegedly assaulted by Sri Lankan Navy personnel at sea near the International Maritime Boundary Line (IMBL) in the wee hours of February 23. According to […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): India and Bangladesh will consider trading in local currencies. This was amongst the things that were discussed when Foreign Secretary, Vinay Mohan Kwatra met with Bangladesh’s Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina, in Gono […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): People in Pakistan woke up on February 16 to the shock of a historic price hike in the prices of petrol and gas as the government tried to appease the IMF for unlocking […]
KATHMANDU (TIP): The Yeti Airlines aircraft which crashed in Nepal last month killing 71 people, including five Indians, lost thrust and fell after the propellers of both engines went into a feathered position, according to […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): A rare public show of division within the ranks of Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban emerged in recent days when Interior Minister Sirajuddin Haqqani, a powerful government figure, gave a speech seen as an implicit […]
KARACHI (TIP): Pakistan’s divisive former military ruler Pervez Musharraf was buried on February 7 in a muted funeral that was never officially announced. The country’s serving army chief, the prime minister and the president all […]
COLOMBO (TIP): President Ranil Wickremesinghe on February 9 said Sri Lanka was in the final stages of negotiations with the IMF on the much-awaited USD 2.9 billion bailout package that could help the debt-trapped island […]
PESHAWAR (TIP): The plot to target a highly secure mosque here in the capital of Pakistan’s restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province was hatched in Afghanistan and funded by their intelligence agency, the country’s law enforcement officials […]
KATHMANDU (TIP): The Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP), the third largest member of the ruling coalition in Nepal, has quit the government led by Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ after he denied reinstatement of the […]
Kathmandu (TIP): Nepal’s former deputy prime minister and home minister Rabi Lamichhane on Sunday reacquired his citizenship certificate, two days after he had to resign following a decision by the country’s Supreme Court to scrap […]
Peshawar (TIP): A suicide bomber who killed 101 people at a mosque inside a major police facility in Peshawar had disguised himself in a police uniform to sneak into the high security zone and was […]
Peshawar (TIP): At least seventeen people have been killed after a truck hit a bus coming from the opposite direction in Pakistan’s northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on February 2, police said. The tragic accident occurred […]
Kathmandu (TIP): The Nepal Electricity Authority has reportedly urged the Bihar government to supply an additional 90 Mega Watt (MW) of power. This is to deal with the power deficit that the country is currently […]
Islamabad (TIP): The Pakistani rupee on January 27 fell to its lowest-ever level of Rs 262.6 against the US dollar ahead of an International Monetary Fund (IMF) delegation’s visit to Islamabad to discuss resuming disbursements […]
Colombo (TIP): Sri Lankan (SL) President Ranil Wickremesinghe has underlined the need to fully implement the India-backed 13th Amendment to the Constitution to grant political autonomy to the minority Tamils in the country. Addressing an […]
Karachi (TIP): A mysterious illness has killed 18 people, mostly children, in Karachi’s Kemari area this month with health officials in this southern Pakistani port city still unable to find the cause of the deaths. […]
Singapore (TIP): An Indian mother and her daughter have made it to the Singapore Book of Records by creating a 6-by-6 metre rangoli artwork using 26,000 ice cream sticks which depicts notable Tamil scholar-poets. Sudha […]
Kathmandu (TIP): A 5.9-magnitude earthquake jolted western Nepal on January 24, killing one person and damaging a number of houses in the region, officials said. The earthquake, with epicentre in the Mela area of Bajura […]
Muzaffarabad (PoK) (TIP): Frustrated residents in the illegally-occupied region of Muzaffarabad staged a protest against the spike in the prices of flour, according to a Pakistan media report. Trade associations and other groups have warned […]
Kandahar (TIP): The Taliban on February 18 publicly flogged nine convicted of robbery and “sodomy” in Ahmad Shahi Stadium in Kandahar. “The Supreme Court said in a statement that nine people were punished in Ahmad […]
Kathmandu (TIP): A team of experts from France, which is in Nepal to help the government investigate the crash of Yeti Airlines’ aircraft with 72 people on board, on January 18 began its probe and […]
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