MUMBAI (TIP): Tahawwur Hussain Rana, a key accused in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack case, had helped co-conspirator David Coleman Headley to obtain an Indian visa, a Mumbai police official familiar with the probe has […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): India has revoked a key trans-shipment facility that permitted Bangladesh to export goods to third countries via Indian land customs stations. This decision follows remarks by Bangladesh’s interim government chief adviser, Muhammad […]
BANGKOK (TIP): The number of people who died in the Myanmar earthquake has increased to 3,145, the military government said on Thursday. Search and rescue teams found more bodies as humanitarian groups rushed to help […]
COLOMBO (TIP): Sri Lankan animal rights activists marched on Thursday to protest the round-up of stray dogs ahead of a visit by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Authorities in Colombo and the Buddhist pilgrim city of […]
Dhaka and Islamabad (TIP) Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Monday spoke with Muhammad Yunus via phone, exchanging Eid ul-Fitr greetings and reaffirming their commitment to strengthening bilateral ties. During the call, Sharif reiterated his […]
KUALA LUMPUR (TIP): A fire caused by a burst gas pipe spread to several homes and sent a fireball soaring into the sky outside Malaysia’s largest city Tuesday, injuring more than 100 people. The towering […]
BEIJING (TIP): Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Bangladesh’s Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus here on Friday, official media reported. Yunus, on a four-day visit to China, took part in the country’s Boao Forum for Asia […]
COLOMBO (TIP): Over a hundred MPs of the ruling National People’s Power (NPP) coalition on Monday wrote to the Parliament Speaker seeking removal of the suspended Sri Lankan police chief “for bringing disrepute to the […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): A Pakistan court has sentenced five men to death for posting blasphemous content online, a prosecution lawyer told AFP on Wednesday, as the country witnesses a sharp increase in such cases. Private groups […]
DHAKA (TIP): Bangladesh’s interim government says it has no plans to ban the political party of ousted premier Sheikh Hasina, putting it at odds with the student revolutionaries who overthrew her in an uprising last […]
Karachi (TIP) : Seventeen children died of measles infection in Sindh in the last two months, ARY News reported, citing a statement by the health department. Ten children died in Khairpur district of Sindh by […]
COLOMBO (TIP): Sri Lanka’s long-delayed local council polls will be held in May, the election commission announced Thursday, setting up the first popularity test of the island nation’s new leftist government. The vote was due […]
PESHAWAR (TIP): The process of repatriation of illegally residing Afghan nationals in Pakistan continued unabated as more than 800,000 people were repatriated by March 20, an official said. With only 10 days remaining until the […]
Mithi, Pakistan (TIP): In a desert town in Pakistan, Hindus prepare meals for fasting Muslims, who in turn gather to welcome a Holi procession, a rare moment of religious solidarity in the Islamic nation. Discrimination […]
Yangon, Myanmar (TIP): The World Food Programme will be forced to cut off one million people in war-torn Myanmar from its vital food aid because of “critical funding shortfalls”, it said on Friday. The United […]
MACH (TIP): Hostages freed from a train siege in southwestern Pakistan on Tuesday said they walked for hours through mountainous terrain to reach safety, forced to leave behind relatives from whom they were separated. Militants […]
BANGKOK (TIP): Myanmar’s junta chief said the country would hold an election in December or January, the first in the war-torn nation since the military staged a coup in 2021. “We are planning to hold […]
COLOMBO (TIP): Deshabandu Tennakoon, theoretically still the island nation’s police chief, is being treated as a fugitive and his team members are on a trail to arrest him, police spokesman Buddhika Manathunga said here on […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): The Pakistan government has set March 31 as the deadline for Afghan Citizen Card (ACCs) holders to leave Pakistan voluntarily as part of a plan to repatriate all illegal foreigners, according to an […]
DHAKA (TIP): Bangladesh’s army chief on February 25 blamed infighting for deteriorating law and order, warning that the gains of the student-led revolution that toppled the government last August were at risk. The South Asian […]
Herat, Afghanistan (TIP): Twenty-nine people died in two provinces in Afghanistan due to hail and heavy rain, officials said February 25. “Twenty-one people were killed and six others were injured” because of hail in western […]
DHAKA (TIP): Bangladeshi students who played a key role in overthrowing the government last year have announced a new political party, the latest grouping in heated political jostling ahead of expected elections. The new Ganatantrik […]
PESHAWAR (TIP): Pakistani security forces killed 10 terrorists in an intelligence-based operation in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, the military’s media wing said on February 24. According to a statement from the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the […]
Dhaka (TIP): The Director General of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) on Feb 20 termed the reports of attacks on minorities in his country as ‘exaggerated,’ while asserting that authorities have taken steps for their protection. […]
Peshawar (TIP): Pakistan security forces on Feb 21 killed at least six terrorists during an intelligence-based operation in the country’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, the military’s media wing said. According to a statement issued by […]
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