Category: International

LONDON/NAIROBI: The Kenyan government authorities have told Pakistan point-blank they will not cooperate anymore with the Pakistan investigators in the Arshad Sharif murder investigation. Pakistani authorities have written to Kenya’s Foreign Office requesting it they be allowed to do a fresh investigation in Kenya, but the Kenyan government has made it clear on more than […]

Tim Cook opened the first Apple Store in India on Tuesday, as the iPhone maker stepped up its battle with Samsung over the growing luxury smartphone market in Asia’s second-biggest economy. The chief executive’s visit to the financial capital, Mumbai, for the launch of its flagship consumer store comes with Apple on a manufacturing drive […]

MANSEHRA: A Chinese national working at the Dasu hydropower project was taken into police custody on Monday following unrest, after labourers at the dam site accused him of making blasphemous remarks during a heated argument. The man was booked on blasphemy charges in Upper Kohistan district and sent to prison on a 14-day judicial remand […]

India is emerging as the world’s major bio-economy with fast-growing biotech start-ups which is likely to touch USD 300 billion by 2030, reported Asian Lite International. India’s cutting-edge developments in its bio-economy were one of the key factors in its ability to successfully combat the Covid-19 outbreak and carry out one of the world’s largest […]

Itanagar: India has been developing border villages in its north-eastern state of Arunachal Pradesh as tourist hubs to assert dominance over China near the line of actual control (LAC). Tension between both the countries escalated further last week after Beijing renamed 11 places in the Indian state which it calls “Zangnan, the southern part of […]

A Chinese citizen working for a construction project in Pakistan is under police protection after workers accused him of blasphemy against Islam, according to officials. Blasphemy is a sensitive issue in Muslim-majority Pakistan, where even rumours of sacrilegious remarks can incite lynch mobs and deadly violence. Officials said on Monday that the engineer at the […]

KARACHI: For those wondering whether the IMF is changing the goalposts yet again, the simple answer is: no. The goalpost was always the same; the Ministry of Finance just kept misinterpreting it. A longstanding condition for resumption of the IMF programme was availability of financing arrangements of at least $6 billion. There was considerable reliance […]

Khartoum city streets were mostly empty of people and traffic on Sunday, with both warring sides mounting roadblocks. But long queues formed at bakeries and the few shops that remained open, as some people briefly ventured out to buy food before returning home to safety. In the afternoon, there was a three-hour pause in hostilities […]

People who encourage women to remove the hijab will be prosecuted in criminal courts and have no right to appeal a conviction, Iran’s deputy attorney general was quoted as saying on Saturday. His comments come as an increasing number of women have been defying Iran’s compulsory dress code, appearing unveiled in malls, restaurants, shops, other […]

The G7 pledged on Sunday to quit fossil fuels faster and urged other countries to follow suit, but failed to agree to any new deadlines on ending polluting power sources like coal. The language reflects the depth of disagreements among the allies on the balance between climate action and energy security, with host Japan leading […]