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Hong Kong [China], Feb.10 : Foreign visitors will be banned entry to the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) between February 25 and April 1 by the Chinese government in anticipation of protests by both Tibetans and Uyghurs against Beijing’s continuous autho…

London [UK], Feb. 10: A Russian airstrike in northern Syria killed three Turkish soldiers and wounded 11 others on Thursday, in a friendly fire incident that could test the shaky coordination between the two countries in the fight against the Islamic S…

New York [USA], Feb. 10: US President Donald Trump signed three new executive orders on Thursday that he said are ‘designed to restore safety in America.’ According to CNN, Trump signed the executive orders in the Oval Office after swearing in Attorney…

Islamabad [Pakistan], Feb.9 : Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Thursday halted crushing operations at three sugar mills owned by the family of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.Hearing a case related to the shifting of these mills from north to south Punjab, a th…

Islamabad [Pakistan], Feb.9 : Pakistan’s Foreign Office on Thursday claimed that India has accumulated a stockpile of nuclear weapons which has the potential to undermine the strategic balance of power in the South Asian region.The Dawn quoted Foreign …

Dhaka [Bangladesh], Feb.9 : Bangladesh’s Law Minister Anisul Huq on Thursday announced that the government will soon come out with a draft of new citizenship law that will allow Bangladeshi expatriates to take part in local government elections, but no…

London [UK], Feb. 9 : Pope Francis has done a thinly veiled criticism of the policies of U.S. President Donald Trump, saying societies should build bridges not walls to encourage good relations among people.The pontiff did not directly refer to the U.S…

New York [USA], Feb. 9 : The Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged Bangladesh to immediately drop its plan to transfer Rohingya refugees from the Cox’s Bazar area to Thengar Char, an uninhabited coastal island, saying the move would deprive them of their …

Islamabad [Pakistan], Feb. 9 : A Bill in Pakistan that seeks to protect the rights of transgenders apparently is an identical copy of a piece of legislation from India and also a replica of the provision of the 1973 Constitution, reports the Express Tr…

Karachi [Pakistan], Feb. 9 : International Steel Limited (ISL) said that the National Tariff Commission (NTC) has decided to impose definitive anti-dumping duties on galvanised steel coils/sheets from China for a period of five years with effect from F…