KP Sharma Oli sworn in as Nepal’s PM for 4th time
KP Sharma Oli on Monday was sworn in as Nepal’s Prime Minister for the fourth time to lead a new coalition government that faces the daunting challenge of providing political stability in the Himalayan nation. The leader of Nepal’s largest communist party was appointed as prime minister on Sunday by President...
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Pak govt’s bid to ban party act of desperation: Imran
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China’s Communist Party begins key meet to stem economic slowdown
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Days after NATO allies called Beijing a Ukraine war enabler, China, Russia start joint naval drills
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Rescuers in Nepal recover 11 bodies
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‘Gunman acted alone; being probed as act of domestic terror’
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Anger and anxiety loom over the Republican convention
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Biden calls for national unity, says time to ‘cool down’
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‘I’m supposed to be dead’
Donald Trump has said he is “supposed to be dead” after the assassination attempt on him at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania, calling the incident a “surreal experience.” In one of his first interviews since the incident, the 78-year-old former president told conservative US media that he felt that he had...
China’s Communist Party leadership to unveil new reforms to halt economic slowdown
China’s ruling Communist Party headed by President Xi Jinping will begin its four-day key economic review meeting on Monday to finalise a new set of economic reforms to revitalise the country’s economy hamstrung by the persistent slowdown that has sparked concerns at home and abroad. The meeting called the third Plenum...
Ex-PM, wife handed over to anti-graft body on remand in fresh case
(): A court in Pakistan on Sunday handed over jailed former prime minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi to the country’s anti-corruption officials on an eight-day remand for probe in a fresh case of alleged corruption. The former first couple was arrested by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB)...
Tough road ahead for Imran despite back-to-back judicial relief
Despite back-to-back judicial relief to beleaguered Imran Khan, his woes are far from over and Pakistan’s former prime minister remains in jail with his wife Bushra Bibi. A district and session court on Saturday overturned the conviction of 71-year-old Khan and his wife Bushra, 49, in the un-Islamic marriage case related...
6 people killed in road mishap in Pak’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province
At least six people, including children, were killed and seven others injured when a jeep plunged into a river in northwest Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Sunday, police said. The accident occurred in the Upper Chitral district of the province when the 14-seater jeep they were travelling in skidded off a...
Death toll rises to five in Nepal twin bus tragedy
Rescuers in Nepal on Sunday found the body of a person who went missing when two buses were swept into a swollen river by a mudslide last week in Chitwan district, police said, taking the death toll to five, including that of an Indian. The rescue team on Sunday found the...
2 Indians held in Italy for enslaving 33 countrymen on farms
(): Two Indian nationals have been arrested for allegedly enslaving 33 farm labourers, all from India, in Italy’s Verona province, according to a media report, weeks after the country was shocked by the tragic death of a Sikh farm worker who bled to death. Finance police also seized assets worth 475,000...
