India will leap from $3 trillion to $30 trillion economy “very soon”, minister says

India would become a 30 trillion dollar economy from the level of three trillion dollar economy very soon, Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal has said.
26 June 2022, 09:01 AM

Quake-hit Afghan village struggles back to life

A ruined village in eastern Afghanistan, just 10 kilometres from the epicentre of this week’s deadly earthquake, is struggling back to life as aid trickles into the isolated region. 
25 June 2022, 18:00 PM

Afghanistan earthquake: China says will provide $7.5mn aid

China will provide humanitarian aid worth 50 million yuan ($7.5 million) to Afghanistan after it was hit by an earthquake that killed more than 1,000 people this week, the Chinese foreign ministry said on Saturday.
25 June 2022, 16:59 PM

Bangladesh says it needs to import 6.2mn tonnes of wheat from India this fiscal

Bangladesh has conveyed that it will need to import at least 6.2 million tonnes of wheat from India in the current fiscal (2022-23).
25 June 2022, 11:04 AM

Pakistan jails 2008 Mumbai attack mastermind for 15 years

As Pakistani officials ticked items off their to-do list for submission of report to Financial Action Task Force (FATF) on the implementation of the action plan for getting out of its ‘grey-list’, something that strengthened their case was the conviction and sentencing of top Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist Sajid Majeed Mir.
25 June 2022, 03:26 AM

India rushes food, medicine to Lanka

Sri Lanka accepted a rice and pharmaceuticals shipment from neighbouring India yesterday as the island nation battles an unprecedented economic crisis that
24 June 2022, 18:00 PM

Aftershock takes more lives in Afghanistan as death toll rises to 1,150

An aftershock took more lives Friday and threatened to pile even more misery on an area of eastern Afghanistan reeling from a powerful earthquake that state media said killed 1,150 people this week.
24 June 2022, 12:01 PM

India restarts diplomacy with Afghanistan after a year amid earthquake crisis

India yesterday (June 23, 2022) re-established its diplomatic presence in Afghanistan as it deployed a "technical team" in its embassy in Kabul, less than a year after New Delhi withdrew officials from its embassy after the Taliban seized power last August.
23 June 2022, 19:03 PM

‘Nothing is left here’

Organised rescue efforts are struggling to reach the site of an earthquake in Afghanistan that has killed more than 1,000 people, as survivors dig through the rubble by hand to find those still missing. 
23 June 2022, 18:00 PM

Record floods threaten southern China

Record floods were expected in parts of southern China yesterday as heavy rains pushed water levels in the Pearl River delta to their highest in almost a century.
23 June 2022, 18:00 PM

India will support Lanka’s recovery

India’s top diplomat yesterday held talks with Sri Lanka’s president and prime minister as India signalled its willingness to go beyond the $4 billion
23 June 2022, 18:00 PM

Suu Kyi sent to solitary confinement

Ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi remained in strong spirits after being transferred from house arrest to prison, a source with knowledge of the case said yesterday, and would “calmly” face her new solitary confinement.
23 June 2022, 18:00 PM

Rohingya woman arrested at India-Nepal border

Indian security forces apprehended a Rohingya woman for illegally staying in the country, officials said today.
23 June 2022, 16:59 PM

Earthquake response in Afghanistan becomes harder with Taliban's isolation

A devastating earthquake in eastern Afghanistan, which killed at least 1,000 people and flattened homes in remote villages close to the Pakistani border, poses the biggest challenge yet for the Taliban since they seized power nearly a year ago.
23 June 2022, 15:45 PM

Ousted Myanmar leader Suu Kyi moved to solitary confinement

Ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been moved from house arrest to solitary confinement in a prison compound in the military-built capital Naypyidaw, a junta spokesman said on Thursday.
23 June 2022, 08:28 AM

Afghanistan earthquake: Survivors dig through rubbles by hand

Survivors dug by hand Thursday through villages in eastern Afghanistan reduced to rubble by a powerful earthquake that killed at least 1,000 people, as the Taliban and the international community that fled their takeover struggled to aid the disaster’s victims.
23 June 2022, 05:39 AM

PM Hasina set to visit India on Sept 6-7 for meeting with Modi

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is set to visit India on September 6-7 for a bilateral meeting with her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi.
22 June 2022, 18:32 PM

BJP nominates tribal, female politician for India president

A female Indian politician from a tribal community has been nominated as presidential candidate by ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, officials said yesterday. 
22 June 2022, 18:00 PM

Crisis-hit Lanka plans donor conference

Sri Lanka will call China, India and Japan to a donor conference to drum up more foreign assistance and present an interim budget in August, the prime minister said yesterday, amid ongoing negotiations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). 
22 June 2022, 18:00 PM

Earthquake kills 1,000 in Afghanistan

The death toll from a powerful earthquake in Afghanistan yesterday hit 1,000, disaster management officials said, with more than 600 injured and the toll expected to grow as desperate rescuers dig through collapsed dwellings.
22 June 2022, 18:00 PM