ISLAMABAD — The Pakistan government is caught between a rock and a hard place following recent events that rocked the nation and made the government walk back on its actions after an ultra-right body Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) cadres ran amok without facing any effective

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has accused China of acting more aggressively abroad and more repressively at home. He said in an interview with CBS News the US did not want to hold China down but would not allow it to undermine the rules-based international order. He noted

New Delhi: Mamata Banerjee on Sunday won a spectacular victory in Bengal, defeating the BJP in elections in the middle of a raging pandemic. The DMK is back in Tamil Nadu after 10 years. The LDF has retained Kerala; Assam has voted for BJP again. Here are the top 10 updates on assembly

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday (MAy 2) extended congratulatory wishes to West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress over Bengal assembly election result.  "Congratulations to Mamata Didi for Trinamool Congress' win in West Bengal. The Centre will continue

Mamata Banerjee today won a landslide victory in Bengal but faced defeat in a cliffhanger of a contest in Nandigram to the BJP's Suvendu Adhikari, her former protege. "I accept the verdict in Nandigram - it is not a big deal. Don't worry," said the Chief Minister. The

North Korea has hit out at the Biden administration as it prepares to unveil its strategy for dealing with Pyongyang and its nuclear programme. The foreign ministry said recent comments out of Washington showed President Joe Biden was intent on maintaining a "hostile policy".

West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Assam, Puducherry Election Results 2021 Live Updates: After four hours of counting, here are the big takeaways from the leads currently in. In West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee has managed to defend her government and appears to be headed towards a third term

A Chinese national pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston in connection with illegally procuring and causing the illegal export of $100,000 worth of U.S. origin goods to Northwestern Polytechnical University (NWPU), a Chinese military university that is heavily involved in

NOWSHERA: The police on Thursday arrested a cleric for allegedly delivering a hate speech against the girls’ contemporary education after registering a case against him. District Police Officer Muhammad Iqbal said that Mufti Sardar Ali Haqqani had delivered a

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has said he will not withdraw navy and coast guard boats patrolling the disputed South China Sea, insisting the country's sovereignty over the waters is not negotiable. Tensions over the sea - which China claims almost entirely - have spiked as

The UN Security Council on Friday again demanded the restoration of democracy in Myanmar and the release of all detainees including elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi, as it threw its weight behind calls by Southeast Asian nations for an immediate end to violence and talks to resolve the

High school students are among 30 people killed in a car bombing in Afghanistan, local officials say. The bomb went off late on Friday close to a guesthouse where the students were reportedly staying in Pul-e-Alam, the capital of eastern Logar province. Dozens of people were hurt.

US President Joe Biden has laid out a sweeping investment plan for jobs, education and social care in his first speech to a joint session of Congress. Delivered on the eve of his 100th day in office, the Democrat pitched some $4 trillion (£2.9tn) in spending - the largest

Islamabad [Pakistan]: As the total public sector stocks depleted to less than three weeks of consumption level, Pakistan Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin on Monday underscored the need to build six million metric tons of strategic wheat reserves. In a National Price Monitoring Committee

NEW DELHI: China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has rotated two large field formations it had deployed along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Ladakh in 2020-21 by inducting two fresh divisions earlier this month, Indian military and intelligence sources have revealed. In

SLAMABAD: The government’s move to form a special parliamentary committee on the issue of French envoy’s expulsion from Pakistan seems to have fizzled out as after the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (JUI-F), the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP)

Abu Dhabi: Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, has affirmed his confidence in India’s ability to overcome the challenge of the resurgence in COVID-19 cases. He reiterated the UAE’s full support for and solidarity

CHAGAI: Another 224 Pakistani nationals were deported by the Iranian authorities on Sunday. According to official sources, these people had been arrested in different parts of Iran for not having valid traveling documents. They were handed over to Levies Force through Raahdari Gate at

Amid rising tensions with Beijing on multiple fronts, US officials have shared concerns that China may have compromised hundreds of federally funded scientists from different colleges and universities across the country. Over 500 US scientists are under probe for being compromised by

Athens, Greece: Document of the Oppressed (DOTO) which claims to be a non-profit documentation center which documents hate crime against religious minorities specifically in India, runs a vicious agenda to fool general public by providing them with misinformation, according to