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A health worker from an aid organization walks wearing a hazmat suit at the Kutupalong Rohingya refugee camp in Coxs Bazar, Bangladesh. (AP)

Coronavirus detected in Rohingya refugee camp

Two people tests positive for Covid in one of the camps in Bangladesh that accommodates more than one million refugees

15 May 2020 11:27 AM IST

Pro-Tibetan protestors hold picures of Gendun Cheokyi Nyima (The Panchen Lama) during a demonstration outside the Chinese consulate in Barcelona. (AFP)

US urges China to release Panchen Lama

Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, the second highest spiritual authority in Tibetan Buddhism after Dalai Lama, is world's youngest...

15 May 2020 10:03 AM IST

A medical worker takes a swab sample from a woman to be tested for the COVID-19 novel coronavirus in Wuhan. (AFP)

Wuhan to test all residents after handful of new infections

A cluster of six new cases was found in one part of the city, the first local infections reported in Wuhan since the...

13 May 2020 1:56 PM IST

People wait for their turn outside a shop at a market after the government eased the lockdown in Islamabad. (AFP)

Pakistan decides not to enforce indefinite lockdown

Pakistan has also reduced the quarantine period before Covid-19 tests for inbound air passengers from 48 hours to the...

13 May 2020 8:34 AM IST

Nepalese students shout slogans as they are detained by policemen during a protest in Kathmandu, Nepal on Saturday, May 9, 2020. The protest was held against the Indian government for building a link road to Lipulekh, a disputed territory between India and Nepal. The road has been built to reach Kailash Mansarovar, a pilgrimage site in the Himalayas. (AP)

Nepal issues diplomatic note to India in protest on Lipulekh

India however made it clear last Saturday that the road falls very much within Indian territory in Uttarakhand

11 May 2020 6:02 PM IST

Laborers work to build a road as authorities relax the government-imposed nationwide lockdown. (AP)

Pakistan begins to ease month-long lockdown even as coronavirus cases...

Prime Minister Imran Khan cited the economic crisis due to the shutdown as reason to allow businesses to open from...

9 May 2020 3:00 PM IST

A man gives food to women for the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan in Lahore. (AP)

European Union offers 163 million USD package to Pakistan

A cash-strapped Pakistan government has been implementing austere measures to improve the country's finances amid the...

8 May 2020 3:40 PM IST

Through that so-called Order exactly two years ago in May, 2018, the then Pakistan government had seized more authority from the local council in the Gilgit-Baltistan region to deal with the affairs of that region

India lodges protest against Pak plan for Gilgit-Baltistan polls

India has always regarded Gilgit-Baltistan as part of its territory which has been under the illegal occupation of...

4 May 2020 8:24 PM IST

Police officers stand guard outside the Lal mosque which is sealed as its cleric denies a government-imposed nationwide lockdown to help contain the spread of the coronavirus in Islamabad. (AP)

Pakistan sees highest single day spike in Covid cases

Pakistan's coronavirus tally records 19,52 new cases; death toll raised to 440

3 May 2020 1:51 PM IST

Representational Image. (PTI)

Pakistan summons senior Indian diplomat over alleged ceasefire...

The Foreign Office in a statement claimed that the Indian forces violated ceasefire in Hajipir and Sankh Sectors on...

2 May 2020 2:51 PM IST

Pakistan speaker Asad Qaiser. (AFP)

Pakistan speaker Asad Qaiser tests Corona+

24 people have died in the last 24 hours in Pakistan, taking the death toll to 385

1 May 2020 2:43 PM IST

Pakistan former prime minister Nawaz Sharif. (AFP)

Pakistan's anti-graft body issues warrant against Nawaz Sharif in...

The 70-year-old supremo of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, is currently in London for medical treatment

27 April 2020 12:56 PM IST