Washington DC: The former finance minister of Afghanistan Khalid Payenda is now driving an Uber cab in Washington (US) to support his family. Payenda, who resigned from his post days before the Taliban took over Kabul, also works as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University, according to a report in The Washington Post. In his...
Washington DC: Violent repression of the largely Muslim Rohingya population in Myanmar amounts to genocide, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Monday, a declaration intended to both generate international pressure and lay the groundwork for potential legal action. Authorities made the determination based on confirmed accounts of mass atrocities on civilians by Myanmar's military...
Chennai: Sri Lanka’s dire economic conditions, sparked by the covid-19 pandemic, are pushing its citizens off the cliff, forcing them to flee to Indian shores clandestinely to escape food shortages. On March 22, up to 16 Sri Lankan nationals, including eight children, reached the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu in two batches on fishing...
Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has dared the Opposition alliance to table a no-confidence motion in Parliament to oust him, as he criticized its call to lawmakers for mass resignations to force him to call snap polls. Khan said that he did not backtrack from holding a national dialogue to steer the country out...
New York: Temperatures recorded at the Earth's poles show alarming heat waves and rising temperatures in the coldest places on the planet. Antarctica hit historic records last week when monitoring stations in the region logged extremely high temperatures. The Concordia station recorded its highest temperature yet, at 10.04 degrees Fahrenheit, according to a tweet from...
New Delhi: In a big boost to ties between the two countries, Israel Prime Minister Naftali Bennett will visit India in the first week of April. It will mark 30 years of the establishment of formal diplomatic relations between India and Israel. Sources said Bennet is likely to undertake a four-day tour starting April 2....
New Delhi: The upcoming deployment of an Indian spy plane to Australia to conduct maritime surveillance in the Indian Ocean is the first step for both countries to more regularly host visiting forces. The leaders’ communique following Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s virtual summit with Indian counterpart Narendra Modi – released almost 24 hours after it...
New Delhi: India on Wednesday rejected as uncalled for Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi's comments referring to Jammu and Kashmir at a meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Islamabad, amid contacts between the two sides over a possible visit by him to New Delhi this week. The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA)...
It requires the support of three nations to avoid being blacklisted by FATF By K.S. Tomar Pakistan has again missed for the second time a mandate of Global Terror Financing Watchdog - Financial Action Task Force (FATF) to check money laundering, leading to terror financing. Hence, it has been retained in Grey List, a big jolt...
