Gilgit-Baltistan , April 25: The Gilgit-Baltistan government in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir has begun an operation to remove illegal electricity connections and special transmission lines to government offices. The decision has been taken as local residents face up to 18-hour-long power outages.
The Gilgit-Baltistan water and power department in cooperation with district...
Twenty-nine politicians in Pakistan are allegedly involved in the smuggling of Iranian petroleum products, a report submitted to the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) has revealed.
The report states that terrorists are using revenue generated from petrol smuggling as a key source of financing. The report, incriminating politicians and government officials...
As tensions between China and India have grown in the last few years, the countries wedged between them are becoming more strategically significant. The two competing powers have sought a buffer between them ever since their founding—1949 in the case of the People’s Republic of China, and 1947 for...
“India is a key strategic partner of the US and we’re dedicated to advancing that partnership, every single day,” said a top White House official ahead of the India-US 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue scheduled in New Delhi on November 10.
The White House official also said it is for New Delhi...
Shanghai: Shanghai authorities say they will take major steps Wednesday toward reopening China's largest city after a two-month COVID-19 lockdown that has set back the national economy and largely confined millions of people to their homes.
Already, a steady stream of people strolled in the Bund, the city's historic waterfront...
The United States will give $ 325 million in new security assistance to Ukraine, President Joe Biden has announced as he hosted his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House and vowed to defend the war-struck country from Russian aggression.
The White House meeting on Thursday was the sixth...
President Joe Biden signed an executive order Wednesday to block and regulate high-tech U.S.-based investments going toward China — a move the administration said was targeted but it also reflected an intensifying competition between the world’s two biggest powers.
The order covers advanced computer chips, micro electronics, quantum information technologies and artificial...
A senior banker at Nomura Holdings Inc. has been barred from leaving China in a move connected to a long-running investigation of a top dealmaker in the country.
Charles Wang Zhonghe, who is chair of investment banking for China at the Hong Kong arm of the Japanese bank, has not...
Turbat , November 25: Massive protests have erupted in Turbat city, Pakistan's Balochistan province after four youth were killed in a fake encounter by the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) last Thursday.
Family members and workers of different political parties have joined the protest at the Fida Shaheed Chowk, along with...
New Delhi: China won’t be the focus of the Indo-Pacific Armies Chiefs Conference (IPACC) to be hosted by India next week in Delhi, the Indian Army said Wednesday.
Asked if the event is aimed at discussing the tensions in the Taiwan Strait, Maj. Gen. Abhinaya Rai, Additional Director General (Strategic Planning),...
