With New Delhi closely monitoring the Thimphu-Beijing boundary negotiation, India’s top diplomat, Foreign Secretary Vinay Mohan Kwatra called on Bhutanese King Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuck – not in the neighbouring country’s capital, but in Gelephu, a town near its border with India.
The king was accompanied by Bhutanese Prime Minister Lotay Tshering when Kwatra and New Delhi’s...
The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) has not been told to tone down its “assertive transparency strategy” to counter Beijing’s grey-zone tactics in the South China Sea, a senior PCG official said, a month after both countries agreed to resolve any incident in the area through diplomacy.
“We will continue ,”...
Tibet, often revered as the "Roof of the World," stands as a bastion of mysticism and spirituality. Central to its cultural and religious identity is the institution of the Dalai Lama, believed by Tibetan Buddhists to embody the compassionate spirit of Avalokiteshvara.
The Dalai Lama, a revered spiritual leader in...
New Delhi: With less than a week to go before India hosts the G20 summit in New Delhi, reports have indicated that Chinese President Xi Jinping might skip the summit this year, whereas US President Joe Biden has confirmed that he will attend. And despite Prime Minister Narendra Modi and...
Taking a shot at the architects behind the European Union’s new climate policy, a Chinese central banker says the bloc’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) functions as a “new tariff barrier” that violates economic principles.
The CBAM, which will enter into effect in October, is designed to prevent “carbon leakage”,...
A fire and subsequent explosions at a golf ball factory in southern Taiwan killed at least five people and injured more than 100 others, and five people are still missing.
The fire began on Friday night at the factory in Pingtung county and raged overnight. Authorities said rescuers were still...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) told the Pakistan government to increase the interest rates during the recently concluded staff-level visit which urged the government to adopt an aggressive approach to curb inflation.
The IMF also questioned the Shehbaz Sharif-led government on what steps it has taken on their defence budget...
India will surpass Japan and Germany to emerge as the third-largest economy and also the third-largest stock market in the world in the next five years, India's G20 Sherpa and former NITI Aayog CEO, Amitabh Kant said on Thursday. Speaking at a conference on "The Deccan Conversations, Accelerating Our...
Islamabad , December 16: An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan's Quetta remanded fashion designer Khadija Shah in police custody for another seven days, Pakistan-based Dawn reported. She was presented before Judge Sadat Bazai again after the expiry of her three-day police remand on Friday.
Earlier, the district attorney sought a 14-day...
