The commission formed to investigate incidents related to the Gen Z protests has requested the Nepal government to extend its tenure by one month, citing the need for additional time to complete statements.
During a meeting with Prime Minister Sushila Karki at Singha Durbar on Wednesday, commission officials requested the...
Dhaka witnessed fresh unrest in the early hours today as the premises of the renowned Bengali cultural organisation Chhayanaut were vandalised and partially set on fire, hours after news broke of the death of Inqilab Mancha convenor Sharif Osman Hadi. The incident took place around 1:30-2:00 am at Chhayanaut...
Sri Lanka’s parliament was on Thursday told that LKR 500 billion would be additionally needed to restore livelihoods of those affected due to the devastating cyclone Ditwah.
Prime Minister Harini Amarasuriya presented a supplementary estimate for government expenditure to pay for the cost of recovery and rehabilitation after devastation...
The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan on Wednesday said it has shut down as many as 42 camps that had housed Afghan refugees for over 40 years.
Millions of Afghan refugees crossed into Pakistan after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, being a bordering province, hosted the...
Sri Lanka’s Road Development Authority has incurred a loss of nearly Rs 75 billion due to the destruction of roads and bridges caused by the devastating Cyclone Ditwah, a parliamentary oversight committee was told on Tuesday.
Furthermore, the officials stated that when taking into account the additional rehabilitation work required...
Bangladesh is set to celebrate Victory Day today, the most precious day of the Bangladeshis, as the country was liberated from the Pakistani occupation forces on this day in 1971 after a nine-month-long bloodstained War of Liberation. The nation would take a renewed pledge to translate into reality the...
More than 5,500 Afghan refugees were forcibly repatriated from Iran and Pakistan in a single day yesterday. In a social media post today, Taliban deputy spokesperson Mullah Hamdullah Fitrat said that 1,014 families, comprising 5,580 people, returned to Afghanistan yesterday.
Fitrat revealed that, earlier, 4,991 Afghan migrants were forcibly deported...
The bilateral military exercise Ex Ekuverin between the Indian Army and the Maldives National Defence Forces, MNDF, concluded at Thiruvananthapuram with a joint validation exercise.
The two-week training focused on enhancing capabilities in counterinsurgency and counter terrorism operations. The final exercise was attended by Major General RD Sharma, General Officer...
Bangladesh’s Election Commission (EC) has sought additional police protection for its top leadership and offices nationwide, citing renewed unrest following the announcement of the schedule for the 13th national parliamentary election.
In letters sent to the Inspector General of Police and the Dhaka Metropolitan Police, the EC requested enhanced security...
The Gen Z movement in Nepal that led to the fall of the K P Sharma Oli-led government caused damage worth Rs 84.45 billion and led to the deaths of 77 people, according to a report.
A government committee tasked with assessing the damage to life and public and private...
