NEW YORK (TIP): External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar expressed confidence that India’s relationship with neighbours Sri Lanka and Bangladesh would continue to be “positive and constructive.” “I would urge you not to be deterministic about […]
Karachi (TIP): The IMF has approved a USD 7 billion new bailout package for Pakistan, authorising the immediate release of the first loan tranche of less than USD 1.1 billion to reinforce the cash-strapped country’s […]
MALE (TIP): Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu has denied having an “India Out” agenda, asserting that the island nation had a “serious problem” with the presence of foreign military on its soil. Muizzu, who is in […]
UNITED NATIONS (TIP): Adopting a historic text demanding that Israel bring to an end its unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, no later than 12 months from the adoption of the resolution, the General […]
DHAKA (TIP): Bangladesh’s interim government has granted magisterial powers to the Army for two months to improve law and order in the country and prevent “subversive acts”. The Ministry of Public Administration issued a notification […]
DUBAI (TIP): The Taliban have suspended polio vaccination campaigns in Afghanistan, the U.N. said September 17. Afghanistan is one of two countries in which the spread of the potentially fatal, paralyzing disease has never been […]
Dhaka (TIP): This Durga Puja season there is a shortage of Hilsa. The reason: Bangladesh, the world’s largest producer of the fish, has intensified its crackdown on the transportation of hilsa to neighbouring India, reinforcing […]
Karachi (TIP): A Border Security Force (BSF) personnel was injured early on September 12 when Pakistani troops opened fire on Indian positions along the border, officials told news agency PTI. According to Times of India, […]
Dhaka (TIP): Former Bangladesh prime minister Khaleda Zia was admitted to a private hospital in the early hours of September 12, according to a media report. The 79-year-old Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chairperson arrived at […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Six Pakistan MPs from jailed former prime minister Imran Khan’s party were among more than 30 people remanded in custody on september 11 under a new law restricting protests. It comes after thousands […]
Nepal (TIP): Effective on Sep 13, Nepal has lifted the ban on popular social media App TikTok with some pre-conditions. Nepal had banned TikTok on November 12 last year, arguing that the social networking site […]
Karachi (TIP): Pakistani actress Nimra Khan suffered a near abduction ordeal last month while waiting for her car outside a hotel in Karachi’s posh Defence Housing area. “Initially there were fingers pointed at me as […]
DHAKA (TIP): Chief Adviser to Bangladesh’s interim government, Muhammad Yunus, has said the issue of attacks on minority Hindus in his country is “exaggerated” and questioned the manner in which India projected it. In an […]
KABUL (TIP): Islamic State (IS), also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) on september 3 claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing in […]
Dhaka (TIP): Former Bangladesh Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury and ex-Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi have been arrested for the killing of a goldsmith during the recent quota reform protests that led to the ouster of the […]
Kuala Lumpur (TIP): Former Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin was charged on August 27 with sedition over a speech he made that allegedly questioned the integrity of the country’s previous king. Muhyiddin, who led Malaysia […]
Dhaka (TIP): Bangladesh’s interim government on August 28 revoked a ban on the right-wing Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir, less than a month after it was imposed on the Islamist party by […]
Dhaka (TIP): A complaint was filed on August 20 with Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) against deposed premier Sheikh Hasina and 26 others, including former ministers of her cabinet, for committing alleged genocide and crimes […]
Dhaka (TIP): A United Nations team will meet Bangladesh’s interim government and other stakeholders from August 22 to discuss the process to investigate alleged human rights violations during the recent deadly violence in the country, […]
Kathmandu (TIP): Seven persons were killed in separate incidents of landslides that were triggered by incessant rain in the western part of Nepal in the last 24 hours, police said on August 20. Four members […]
Colombo (TIP): The Sri Lankan government has announced visa-free access to citizens from 35 countries, including India, the UK and the US to the island nation for six months, media reports said on August 21. […]
Lahore (TIP): A staunch critic of the Pakistan Army and YouTuber has been arrested in the Punjab province of Pakistan for allegedly fanning ‘religious hatred’ and ‘defaming institutions’, especially the military, on social media, authorities […]
Dhaka (TIP): Amid the political unrest in Bangladesh that saw Sheikh Hasina resign as the Prime Minister and flee the country on August 5, President Mohammed Shahabuddin chaired a meeting at the Bangabhaban in Dhaka […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): The death toll from nearly six weeks of monsoon rains and floods across Pakistan has risen to 154, officials said August 8, as downpours continued in much of the country, inundating some villages. […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The ouster of Bangladesh’s autocratic premier sparked celebrations in Dhaka this week but alarm in neighbouring India, which backed Sheikh Hasina to counter rival China and quash Islamist alternatives, analysts say. It […]
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