NEW DELHI (TIP): In a significant move that will save millions of animals, Nepal’s Gadhimai temple trust on July 29 announced a ban on animal sacrifice at the Gadhimai festival, the world’s biggest animal sacrifice […]
KATHMANDU (TIP): Landslides triggered by heavy rains killed at least 24 people July 30 and left more than a dozen missing as homes were swept away in three districts of quake-hit Nepal. Rescuers are still […]
YANGON (TIP): Myanmar on July 30 ordered the release of thousands of prisoners including 210 foreigners, officials said, the latest in a series of amnesties under the reformist government that have seen sentences quashed for […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Barack Obama is inviting Pakistan beleaguered Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to the White House in October, raising the prospect of a second such visit in two years despite the US President reneging on […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Pakistan would include proof of alleged Indian involvement in the Taliban attack on a Peshawar army school last year, which killed 152 people mostly kids, in a dossier that it would handover to […]
BAMIYAN, AFGHANISTAN (TIP): Trudging halfway up a jagged goat trail, guide Mohammad Ibrahim extolled the panoramic view — a vast, ancient landscape of russet-hued cliffs that is on the frontline of Afghan efforts to jumpstart […]
YANGON (TIP): The Myanmar government and armed ethnic minority groups resumed critical talks on Wednesday to reach a nationwide ceasefire agreement that would end six decades of fighting before an upcoming general election that threatens […]
COLOMBO (TIP): The Maldives parliament said on July 23 it has sacked the country’s vice-president and accused him of treason, as international concern mounts over the state of democracy on the honeymoon islands. Lawmakers voted […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Amid heightened tension along their border resulting in casualties on both sides, India on July 16 warned Pakistan of “effective and forceful” response to unprovoked firing and cross-border terrorism. India’s blunt message […]
KATHMANDU (TIP): Earthquake-hit Nepal is planning to train 50,000 workers in a bid to carry out massive reconstruction works, the biggest skill development programme as the country braces for the slowest economic growth rate in […]
KABUL (TIP): An Afghan official says Taliban gunmen killed eight people in an ambush in a province east of the capital, Kabul. Sarhadi Zwak , a spokesman for the governor of Laghman Province, says the […]
DHAKA (TIP): A leader of fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami party was sentenced to death today by a special war crimes tribunal in Bangladesh for commiting murders and rapes, including that of Hindu women, during the independence war […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): China on July 17 pledged to provide$10 million to all-weather friend Pakistan for the rehabilitation of people displaced due to military operations in the restive tribal region, officials said. The agreement to provide […]
LAHORE (TIP): Two militants linked to Tehreek-i- Taliban Pakistan (TTP) have been arrested here for “facilitating” a suicide bomber, who blew himself up at the Wagah border minutes after the popular flag-lowering ceremony last year, killing […]
KATHMANDU (TIP): Nepal’s deputy Prime Minister Bamdev Gautam has expressed confidence that a new constitution will be promulgated in the country in two months and said the devastating earthquake on April 25 brought the quibbling […]
KABUL (TIP): The Afghan intelligence agency on July 9 said a third top IS commander in Afghanistan was killed in a US drone strike in the country’s east this week. Shahidullah Shahid, a former member […]
DHAKA: At least 17 people were killed on Friday in a stampede during a handout of free clothes at a factory in the northern Bangladeshi city of Mymensingh, police said. The stampede erupted when hundreds […]
JAKARTA (TIP): Four airports in Indonesia were shut on July 10 due to an ash cloud from a volcanic eruption in East Java. According to the country’s flag carrier Garuda Indonesia, Bali’s Denpasar International Airport […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) prime minister Chaudhry Abdul Majeed has warned Islamabad against any attempt to convert Gilgit-Baltistan into a federal province. “Gilgit-Baltistan is part and parcel of the state of Jammu and Kashmir. […]
LAHORE (TIP): A train carrying hundreds of Pakistan soldiers and their families plunged several feet into a canal on July 2 when a bridge collapsed in the country’s east in what the army suspects was […]
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN (TIP): A suicide attacker driving an explosives-packed vehicle targeted a Nato military convoy in the Afghan capital, Kabul, on July 1, police and a Nato official said. Police on the scene said casualties […]
KATHMAMNDU (TIP): Five mild aftershocks have been recorded in Nepal in the last two days as the country was still reeling under the impact of the deadly temblor that struck two months ago and claimed […]
DHAKA (TIP): Al-Qaida’s Bangladesh chief and his top advisor were among 12 militants belonging to the group arrested by police which also seized a huge cache of explosives, foiling a major attack planned for the […]
KARACHI (TIP): A heatwave has killed nearly 800 people in Pakistan’s financial hub of Karachi and piled pressure on a beleaguered provincial government, as rivals blame it for severe blackouts and crumbling public services that […]
KATHMANDU (TIP): External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj will be among a host of leaders who will attend an international donor conference here for reconstruction efforts following the devastating earthquake that hit Nepal in April. The […]
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