KATHMANDU (TIP): Dire weather has forced Nepal to suspend search operations after a Himalayan avalanche caused what is feared to be the worst expedition disaster in over a decade, the National Mountain Guide Association said. […]
DHAKA (TIP): The Tarique Rahman government has proposed replacing planned sculptures commemorating Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s March 7, 1971 speech and the surrender of Pak forces the same year with water fountains at Suhrawardy Udyan. […]
Islamabad (TIP): Pakistan says it has targeted “camps and hideouts” used by armed groups in two locations in Afghanistan, killing several fighters, while Kabul and the United Nations report civilian casualties. Pakistan’s Ministry of Information […]
New York (TIP): Bangladesh Prime Minister Tarique Rahman has called for stronger international cooperation on peace, democracy, development and regional cooperation while addressing the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. […]
Islamabad (TIP): Pakistan has foiled an “attempted Afghan aggression” on the Pakistan-Afghan border. Pakistani security sources said several Afghan members of the Taliban were killed in an intermittent exchange of fire in the Gulistan area […]
New York (TIP): Nepal Prime Minister Balendra Shah called for grant-based international support at the United Nations General Assembly on Sept 24 to help the Himalayan nation recover from the glacier flood that killed at […]
Islamabad (TIP): he Pakistan government’s security costs are set to go up after jailed former prime minister Imran Khan’s party announced to postpone its planned protest in the capital from Sunday to October 4. Khan’s […]
Colombo (TIP): Sri Lanka’s police summoned former first lady Shiranthi Rajapaksa on September 16 for questioning over allegations that her charity misused donations, tightening authorities’ anti-corruption drive. President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s government has revived long-dormant […]
Thimphu (TIP): India and Bhutan welcomed the signing of an agreement on a concessional Line of Credit of INR 4,000 crore for energy projects in Bhutan during External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar’s official visit to […]
Islamabad (TIP): As part of its bid to conserve energy, Pakistan has announced a new set of austerity measures, including cuts to fuel allocations for official vehicles, besides bans on the purchase of vehicles for […]
Islamabad (TIP): Two Hindu sisters, reportedly aged 13 and 14, broke down outside a court in Pakistan’s Sindh province after it declined to send them home with their parents, according to journalists and minority-rights activists. […]
Colombo (TIP): Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake on Wednesday assured defence minister Rajnath Singh that his country would “never allow its territory to be used for any activities inimical to India’s security interests”, repeating […]
Islamabad (TIP): The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) made a formal complaint to Sky Sports after it aired an interview with the sons of former Prime Minister and World Cup-winning captain Imran Khan during the lunch […]
Dhaka (TIP): Bangladesh is moving closer to buying 20 Chinese J-10CE multirole fighter jets for $2.3 billion, in what could become one of Dhaka’s biggest defence purchases in years. An aide of Bangladesh Prime Minister […]
Colombo (TIP): The Commander of the Sri Lanka Navy, Vice Admiral Damian Fernando, held talks with Navy Chief Admiral Krishna Swaminathan and Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh, aiming to bolster maritime security cooperation and enhance […]
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 […]
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