New Delhi , March 16: France-led multilateral exercise, La Perouse, enhanced cooperation between partner navies in the Indo-Pacific, according to an official release. The exercise which was conducted on March 13 and 14, brought together seven nations involved in maritime security in the Indo-Pacific: India, Australia, Canada, the United States,...
Beijing , March 16: President Xi Jinping named Li Qiang, a close confidant, as the country's next Premier, nominally in charge of the world's second-largest economy, now facing some of its worst prospects in years. He takes on the job even as the authority of the Premier and the...
Karachi , March 14: Several areas of Karachi remained in darkness on Monday as a high tension (HT) transmission cable tripped due to a technical fault, ARY News reported. About 40 per cent of Karachi was completely dark, after a high tension (HT) transmission line tripped, resulting in multiple grid...
San Diego , March 14: United States President Joe Biden along with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and United Kingdom Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Monday announced that Australia will purchase nuclear-powered attack submarines from the US to modernise its fleet. The agreement is aimed at countering China's influence...
Manama , March 14: India on Monday slammed Pakistan at the 146th Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Assembly in Bahrain. Pakistan in its address at the IPU Assembly, referred to Kashmir in its habitual manner. India through a Right to Reply (RoR) slammed Pakistan terming it an "exporter of terrorists" and reiterated...
New Delhi , March 14: Chief of Defence Staff General Anil Chauhan on Tuesday said that India has been playing an important role in providing high availability disaster recovery (HADR) in the region and beyond. The CDS said India undertook 'Operation Maitri', 'Operation Dost', which are testimony of its willingness...
Islamabad , March 14: An Islamabad local court on Tuesday suspended non-bailable arrest warrants against Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan in a female judge threatening case, Pakistan-based ARY News reported. Suspending former premier Khan's arrest warrants, Additional Sessions judge Faizan Haider barred the police from arresting him till March...
London , March 14: The United Kingdom regards China as an "epoch-defining challenge" to the global order and believes that the security of the UK and Europe depends on Russia's failure to succeed in its war on Ukraine, according to an update to the UK's strategic foreign and defence...
Dubai , March 14: An Arab woman travelling to Europe with her two daughters, aged 3 and 5 years old, was caught at Dubai International Airport (DXB) with a fake residency visa. Originally, the emirate's Misdemeanour Court gave the woman a three-month prison with a suspended sentence. But then out...
Tokyo , March 14: Japanese Cabinet on Tuesday approved a bill to recognise a sexual crime even in the absence of physical force or compulsion and raise the legal age of consent from 13 to 16. The amendments would see a sexual offence charge to more clearly state that non-consensual...