ISLAMABAD (TIP): The Pakistan government will ban jailed former prime minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party for its alleged involvement in anti-state activities, it was announced on July 17. Information Minister Attaullah Tarar announced that […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Heavy rains in eastern Afghanistan have killed at least 40 people and injured nearly 350 others, Taliban officials said July 17. Among the dead in Monday’s storm were five members of the same […]
DHAKA (TIP): Bangladesh students vowed on July 18 to continue nationwide protests against civil service hiring rules, rebuffing an olive branch from Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina who pledged justice for seven killed in the demonstrations. […]
KATHMANDU (TIP): Nepal’s newly appointed Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli will take a vote of confidence in Parliament on July 21, as required by the Constitution, a media report quoted the chief whip of […]
DHAKA (TIP): Bangladesh’s top court on July 10 temporarily suspended quotas for coveted government jobs after thousands of students staged nationwide protests against what they call a discriminatory system, lawyers said. The quota system reserves […]
COLUMBO (TIP): The Sri Lankan Cabinet has approved a move to amend the Constitution giving clarity to terms of both the president and Parliament, restricting it to five years only, the government announced on July […]
KATHMANDU (TIP): The Communist Party of Nepal-Unified Marxist Leninist (CPN-UML) on July 11 said the landlocked Himalayan nation can attain economic prosperity only by maintaining close friendly relations with India, asserting that it will not […]
Muzaffarabad (TIP): A jeep fell from a mountain road into a ravine in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir on July 10, killing 14 people and injuring two others, officials said. The incident happened in […]
KATHMANDU (TIP): As many as 65 people were believed missing in Nepal after two buses were swept by a landslide triggered off the highway and into a swollen river on July 9, officials said. The […]
COLOMBO (TIP): At least 60 Indian nationals part of a group engaged in online financial scams have been arrested by Sri Lanka’s Criminal Investigations Department. They were arrested on June 30 from the Colombo suburbs […]
COLOMBO (TIP): R Sampanthan, a veteran Sri Lankan politician and a moderate Tamil leader, passed away on July 3 while receiving treatment in a hospital, the Tamil National Alliance has announced. Sampanthan, 91, led the […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Amidst a legal tussle over the reserved seats in Pakistan’s legislatures, Chief Justice Qazi Faez Isa has ruled that the election commission is not a subordinate institution to the Supreme Court or the […]
KATHMANDU (TIP): Embattled Nepal Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ has decided not to resign from the post despite an agreement reached between the country’s largest parties – Nepali Congress and CPN-UML – to form […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): A Pakistani court on July 3 acquitted former prime minister Imran Khan and several senior party colleagues in a case registered against them for protesting against the jailed premier’s disqualification by the election […]
Islamabad (TIP) : Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on June 23 that fighting terrorism was a collective responsibility of all institutions, as the country battled a resurgent Taliban militancy. Addressing the apex committee meeting […]
Islamabad (TIP): Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on June 26 extended an olive branch to his predecessor and political rival Imran Khan, offering to hold talks with him if was facing “troubles” in jail. “If […]
Dhaka (TIP): Accusing PM Sheikh Hasina of a “personal political vendetta” against her political rival Khaleda Zia, a leader from her party BNP today claimed she is on her “deathbed” as she has been deprived […]
Male (TIP): Maldives police have arrested two serving ministers for allegedly performing black magic on President Mohamed Muizzu, local media reported on June 27. Shamnaz Saleem, who was a state minister at the Environment Ministry, […]
Cox’s Bazar (TIP): At least nine Rohingyas were killed in landslides caused by heavy torrential rain in Ukhiya refugee camps of Cox’s Bazar June 19 morning, The Daily Star reported. Quoting Mohammad Samsudduza, additional refugee […]
KUALA LUMPUR (TIP): The father of a Malaysian man who attacked a police station and killed two police officers last month was charged on June 19 with inciting terrorism in his family. His Singaporean wife […]
PESHAWAR (TIP): A Pakistani journalist was gunned down on June 18 by unknown gunmen in the restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in the country’s northwest, according to a tribal journalist association. Khalil Jibran, associated with Pashto […]
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (TIIP): A Muslim mob in northwestern Pakistan on June 20 broke into a police station, snatched a man who was held there and then lynched him over allegations that he had desecrated Islam’s […]
Kathmandu (TIP): The sales and distribution of Biotax 1gm, manufactured by an Indian firm, has been banned in Nepal due to “health risks.” The Department of Drug Administration suspended the antibiotic injection since it was […]
TOKYO (TIP): Kazuko Shiraishi, a leading name in modern Japanese “beat” poetry, known for her dramatic readings, at times with jazz music, has died. She was 93. Shiraishi, whom American poet and translator Kenneth Rexroth […]
Kathmandu (TIP): Six Indian tourists, mostly senior citizens, were injured when the jeep they were travelling in overturned near a lake in Nepal’s Chitwan district on June 2, officials said. The accident took place near […]
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