The arrest of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party leader and former Prime Minister Imran Khan for corruption should raise no eyebrows. Arrest or sacking of Prime Ministers for corruption has been routine in Pakistan as high corruption has virtually...
World News Edited by Akhil Kumar
New Delhi: Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan was arrested today just as he was entering the Islamabad High Court for a hearing in one of dozens of cases pending since he was ousted...
The United Nations Special Procedure Experts (Rapporteurs) on various aspects of human rights have addressed the Sri Lankan President, pointing out serious flaws in the Anti-Terrorism bill now in parliament, particularly its unduly wide definition of terrorism.
The new Anti-Terrorism...
With Cambodia as the spur, Beijing is consolidating its hold in the Gulf of Thailand, which can become the gateway for Chinese ships to enter the Indian Ocean.
China’s state-run news agency Xinhua reported that China Harbour Engineering Company Ltd....
India’s state-owned Numaligarh Refinery Limited (NRL) plans to enter Myanmar by setting up retail fuel outlets in strife-torn Sagaing region, according to Indian media reports.
NRL has been exporting oil to Myanmar via the 421-kilometre road linking Numaligarh in Assam...
Malpass calls the lack of progress on loans ‘frustrating’
Anti-poverty lender hoping for advances on Zambia, Ethiopia
China is at a impasse in terms of restructuring debts owed to it by developing nations in distress even after the World Bank made...
By India Today News Desk: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar took a jibe at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over the latter’s criticism of government’s handling of the China issue. "I would have offered to take classes on China from...
In 1953, an average of seven people, not including children, huddled around each TV set – many of them 9-inch Ekcovisions – to watch the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. The experience was like seeing “ermine-draped ectoplasm floating about at a rather bizarre...
The details of the Queen Consort's coronation outfit have been being teased over the past few weeks, but when finally revealed at Westminster Abbey this morning, it did not disappoint—combining a nod to tradition with more modern and personal...
India is number 10 in a crony capitalism list of 43 countries with a GDP over $ 250 billion, says The Economist
By P.K.Balachandran
According to The Economist, the crony-capitalist sector’s share in India’s GDP has gone up from 5% to...
During a discussion on the 178th Anniversary of the Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka (RASSL) in Colombo on April 27, President Ranil Wickremesinghe spoke of his plan to establish an “Institute of History” to coordinate the work of...
Analysts said the comments at a Shanghai Cooperation Organisation meeting were tailored to his Indian hosts and other members
The comments are the latest example of China trying to woo US partners by maintaining their ‘strategic autonomy
China’s Foreign...
