-- 2020-08-29 17:28:13
Plentiful monsoon rains spurred Indian farmers to plant summer crops across a record swathe of farmland 7.0 per cent bigger than last year, promising a bumper harvest in Asia’s third-biggest eco...
-- 2020-08-29 15:06:49
At least eight people were killed in an alleged shootout in the southern Philippine province of Cotabato around noontime on Saturday, police and local official said. A local official said the victims...
REUTERS 2020-08-29 10:55:25
In his golden-hued office, decked out with peacock feathers and crystal balls, Indian mystic healer and astrologer Sanjay Sharma is busy offering his clients a peek into their future as the Covid-19 p...
-- 2020-08-28 19:57:13
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, on a rare visit to Norway, warned Oslo against granting the Nobel Peace Prize to Hong Kong pro-democracy activists, much on the lines of awarding the prize to China&r...
-- 2020-08-28 19:50:20
The white supremacist who slaughtered 51 worshippers at two New Zealand mosques was sentenced Thursday to life in prison without the possibility of parole, reports thehindubusinessline.com citing PTI....
REUTERS 2020-08-28 15:13:18
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Japan’s longest-serving premier, announced his resignation because of poor health on Friday, ending a stint at the helm of the world’s third-biggest economy in w...
FE ONLINE DESK 2020-08-28 15:06:30
The stand-off with China in eastern Ladakh is "the most serious situation” since 1962, Indian Foreign Minister Dr S Jaishankar has said, referring to the then Indo-China war, NDTV reports. "Thi...
AP 2020-08-28 13:58:21
India should commit to carbon neutrality by ending fossil fuel subsidies and investing in clean solar power as it mobilises trillion of dollars to recover from the coronavirus pandemic, the UN chief s...
REUTERS 2020-08-28 13:33:32
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is set to resign, public broadcaster NHK said on Friday, adding that the long-serving leader wanted to avoid causing problems for the government due to the worsening...
REUTERS 2020-08-27 10:41:43
Iran said on Wednesday it was ending a months-long standoff with the UN nuclear watchdog by granting it access to two sites suspected of once hosting secret activities, easing diplomatic pressure on T...
-- 2020-08-27 09:51:22
A New Zealand court sentenced a man who killed 51 Muslim worshippers in New Zealand's deadliest shooting to life in prison without parole, the first time such a sentence has been handed down in the co...
-- 2020-08-26 20:28:18
Philippine Foreign Minister Teodoro Locsin on Wednesday said the United States military presence in Asia is needed as rivalry between Washington and Beijing intensifies. The two powers are arguing ov...
-- 2020-08-26 18:51:49
Facebook has shared data with United Nations investigators probing international crimes in Myanmar, after the lead investigator said the company was withholding evidence. A Facebook representative on...
-- 2020-08-26 16:50:02
A violent flash flood killed more than 70 people and destroyed hundreds of homes just north of Afghanistan's capital on Wednesday. The floods swept through Parwan province, which borders Kabul, in th...
-- 2020-08-26 16:41:34
India's National Investigation Agency (NIA) charged 19 people, including 7 Pakistani nationals, on Tuesday over a deadly bomb attack on a security convoy in the Indian-controlled part of Kashmir last...
REUTERS 2020-08-26 16:31:14
The father of slain three-year-old Mucaad Ibrahim, the youngest victim in the New Zealand mosque shootings, told the white supremacist who gunned down his son that “true justice” awaited h...
REUTERS 2020-08-26 14:15:08
The former president of the Maldives, Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, said he had tested positive for Covid-19, as the tourist-dependent island nation reports a pick-up in cases since re-opening its borders las...
REUTERS 2020-08-26 10:46:15
On June 09, an Indian health education minister posted an infographic on Twitter showing Covid-19 infections and deaths in the city of Bengaluru were running about half the rate in New Zealand, a coun...
Reuters 2020-08-25 18:26:41
Rescue workers pulled more than 60 people alive from the rubble of a collapsed building in an industrial town near India's financial capital Mumbai, a senior official said on Tuesday, as rescue effort...
-- 2020-08-25 10:41:18
Aspiring politician Abdul Rasheed was born in Myanmar and is one of the very few members of the Rohingya Muslim minority to have Myanmar citizenship. His father was a civil servant. But when the coun...
REUTERS 2020-08-25 09:54:45
Rescue workers pulled more than 60 people alive from the rubble of a collapsed building in an industrial town near India’s financial capital Mumbai, a senior official said on Tuesday, as rescue...
Reuters 2020-08-24 22:25:18
India's main opposition Congress party on Monday rejected a request from its leader, Sonia Gandhi, that she may be allowed to step down, after a rare challenge to the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty, which has d...
Reuters 2020-08-24 19:27:39
Twin blasts including a suicide bombing killed 15 people and wounded 75 others on a restive southern Philippine island on Monday, among them security forces and civilians, with Islamist militants susp...
-- 2020-08-24 15:56:50
The leader of India’s main opposition Congress party offered to resign on Monday, domestic media said, after almost two dozen top leaders called for better decision-making in the party, which ha...
-- 2020-08-24 15:37:04
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is reportedly in a coma and his sister Kim Yo-jong will be exercising de facto control over national and international matters, several media outlets said quoting a for...
REUTERS 2020-08-24 13:26:40
A white supremacist who killed 51 people at two mosques in New Zealand last year watched without emotion on Monday as relatives of his victims recounted the horror of a massacre which prosecutors said...
REUTERS 2020-08-24 10:51:01
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited a Tokyo hospital on Monday for a second time within days, stoking concern about his ability to stay on as leader due to health issues and fatigue from tackli...
FE Online Report 2020-08-23 23:49:57
Rohingya rights groups accused the social media platform, Facebook, that it had a role in the violence in Myanmar that forced the minority Muslims to move to Bangladesh. Some four rohingya right grou...
Muhammad Zamir 2020-08-23 23:38:36
India's economy has been a leader among developing nations, with gross domestic product (GDP) growing at 6.9 per cent between financial year (FY) 2012 and FY 2018. Energy and electricity demand has gr...
Reuters 2020-08-23 19:22:47
The suspected white supremacist who killed 51 Muslim worshippers last year, a massacre that prompted a global campaign to stamp out online hate, arrived in Christchurch on Sunday ahead of sentencing h...
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