Colombo (TIP): Sri Lanka will simplify immigration procedures to speed up the voluntary return of refugees from India who left the country without valid documents during the civil war, the government told Parliament on Wednesday. […]
Dhaka (TIP): Members of parliament in Bangladesh have elected ruling party veteran Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir as the next president, following the premature resignation of the former president for health reasons. Seventy-eight-year old Alamgir from […]
Islamabad (TIP): Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan was taken back to Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi on Friday morning after undergoing a medical examination at Shifa International Hospital in Islamabad. He had been shifted to […]
DHAKA : A suspected gas leak at a shipbreaking yard in southeastern Bangladesh killed at least eight people on Friday during the dismantling of a decommissioned ship, police said. Several others were injured at the […]
Pakistan has once again dipped into its familiar playbook of indulging in empty and hollow rhetoric against India, with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif threatening a “direct response” over water even as Islamabad grapples with a […]
As Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers mark five years since sweeping back to power, some Kabul residents say they feel safer after decades of conflict and upheaval but stress the leaders should now focus on creating jobs […]
New Delhi (TIP): Bangladesh’s former prime minister Sheikh Hasina on August 5 signalled her determination to return home in December after two years in self-exile in India, despite the risk of arrest or a death […]
Mecca (TIP): Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkiye have signed a joint defence pact as tensions in the Middle East continue to escalate with the United States and Israel’s war on Iran. The agreement, called the […]
Islamabad (TIP): Pakistani authorities have imposed severe new restrictions on international media, including barring them from reporting in most of the country, in a move that has provoked a significant backlash from journalist organisations. According […]
COLOMBO, July 24 (TIP) : Sri Lanka on Friday, July 24, welcomed the US decision of lowering to 10 per cent the tariff on goods imported from the island nation saying it will send a […]
Dhaka (TIP): Bangladesh President Mohammed Shahabuddin has resigned two years ahead the end of his full five-year term. Shahabuddin, 76, cited health reasons for his decision on Friday. The move comes amid rising demand from […]
Islamabad (TIP): Two decades ago, President George W Bush stood at a joint news conference with President Pervez Musharraf on the grounds of the presidential palace, the Aiwan-e-Sadar, in Islamabad. Ducks splashed in a flower-filled […]
Islamabad (TIP): A suicide attack on a security checkpoint in northwestern Pakistan has killed 27 people, including soldiers, police and gunmen, the army reported. The overnight attack was near the Afghan border in the restive […]
Dhaka (TIP): The Detective Branch (DB) of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has handed over Major (Retd) Muzaffar Hossain (77), a fugitive accused in the assassination case of Former President Ziaur Rahman, to the Army. […]
Muzaffarabad (TIP): Pakistan pocketed roughly Euro 732 million in EU tariff exemptions last year as the top beneficiary of Europe’s GSP+ trade scheme, but a new joint assessment from the European Commission and the EU’s […]
Islamabad (TIP): Pakistan has formally lodged a strong diplomatic protest with Japan over its decision to explicitly refer to “cross-border terrorism from Pakistan” in the India-Japan Annual Summit Joint Statement, underscoring Tokyo’s growing alignment with […]
Islamabad (TIP): Pakistan’s military has said that security forces had killed 54 militants in a series of retaliatory operations across Balochistan after coordinated attacks over the past four days left 42 civilians and security personnel […]
Muzaffarabad (TIP): Tensions in Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK) have escalated after the Jammu Kashmir Joint Awami Action Committee (JAAC) gave Islamabad a 48-hour ultimatum. JAAC warned of a “grand and final” phase of protests […]
Pakistani politics has been hit by a bombshell with the arrest of Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar’s grandson for alleged abduction and rape of two foreign nationals. Pakistanis are livid over the state of affairs […]
Dhaka (TIP): China has revived a decade-old connectivity dream which may have major implications for India as well. The China-Myanmar-Bangladesh Economic Corridor (CMBC) promises Beijing a new route to the Bay of Bengal. But it […]
Islamabad/New Delhi (TIP): Pakistan, a state sponsor of terror, seems to have found a new way to deflect attention from its record on terrorism. It has turned to a new rallying cry – water, or […]
Brussels (TIP): A Taliban delegation held closed-door talks with European Union officials and representatives of 15 EU countries in Brussels, with discussions centred on diplomatic services and what the Taliban called a “dignified return process” […]
QUETTA (TIP): A Pakistani anti-terrorism court has sentenced prominent civil rights activist Mahrang Baloch and an associate to life in prison over the killing of a paramilitary soldier during a July 2024 protest. Baloch’s lawyer […]
Islamabad (TIP): A French woman who spent more than a decade cut off from the outside world, trapped inside a remote home in Pakistan with her five children, has finally been rescued after one of […]
Islamabad (TIP): The name Hangor evokes history. In 1971, Pakistani submarine PNS Hangor sank India’s INS Khukri during the India-Pakistan war. That was the first instance where an Indian Navy warship sank in wartime since […]
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