As officials of Pakistan and Afghanistan held talks in Turkiye to find a lasting solution to the cross-border militancy, their forces traded fire, testing the fragile peace between the two sides.
The talks began in Istanbul to defuse tension between Islamabad and Kabul that erupted in an open border conflict...
Bangladesh’s interim government on Thursday approved a draft ordinance prescribing the death penalty for perpetrators of “enforced disappearance”, amid the ongoing trial of ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina and 15 serving military officers over crimes against humanity.
“This is a landmark law. It will ensure that enforced disappearances never occur...
Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake will present his government’s 2026 budget to Parliament on Friday afternoon, with analysts seeing it as a key step in the island nation’s fragile recovery from its worst economic crisis in decades. The budget aims to balance public expectations for relief with commitments...
Bangladesh’s garment exports continued to decline for the third consecutive month, marking a sharper drop than last year’s turbulent export performance.
After a strong start in July, exports from the apparel sector fell steadily over the next three months. According to data from the Export Promotion Bureau (EPB), garment exports...
Rescuers were digging through ice and snow on a mountain in Nepal on Tuesday to recover the bodies of seven climbers who were killed by an avalanche a day earlier, officials said.
An avalanche pounded the base camp at Mount Yalung Ri, located at 4,900 metres (16,070 feet), on...
Sri Lankan law enforcement authorities have discovered more than 350 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine, commonly known as “ice,” and heroin valued at approximately 5 billion rupees (about 16.66 million U.S. dollars) aboard a fishing vessel seized by the navy, a senior official told reporters on Sunday.
Deputy Minister of Defense...
A Multi-ethnic Trilingual School built with Indian grant assistance was inaugurated and handed over to the Government of Sri Lanka in Polonnaruwa today. The ceremony was jointly presided over by Sri Lankan Prime Minister Dr. Harini Amarasuriya and Indian High Commissioner Santosh Jha. After inaugurating the school, Dr. Amarasuriya...
India and Sri Lanka held the first Joint Working Group Meeting on agriculture in New Delhi yesterday. The meeting was co-chaired by Secretary, Department of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Dr Devesh Chaturvedi and Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Land and Irrigation of Sri Lanka, D. P. Wickramasinghe.
In a statement,...
Afghanistan’s Acting Interior Minister Sirajuddin Haqqani warned Pakistan that any act of aggression would not be tolerated by Kabul. Haqqani said this, days after the latest round of talks between the two countries in Istanbul earlier this week failed to yield any outcome. He said the people of Afghanistan...
Talks between Afghanistan and Pakistan in Istanbul, Turkey to broker a long-term truce ended without a resolution by the end of the third day
The talks were aimed at reinforcing a fragile ceasefire following recent border clashes that have left dozens of soldiers and civilians dead on both sides.
The current...
