The death toll from the collapse of the multi-storey building in Indian state Maharashtra’s Bhiwandi rose to ten on Monday even as five people were rescued from the rubble, news agency ANI reported citing the spokesperson of the Thane Municipal Corporation. A child was pulled

Nepal government is deporting 41 Chinese nationals for ‘suspicious activities’. Apparently, they were staying illegally in the country. It is learnt that the Department of Immigration, on July 19, had ordered deportation of 22 Chinese and additional 19 on September 4. All

Pakistan has decided to elevate Gilgit-Baltistan's status to that of a full-fledged province, a Pakistani media report on Thursday quoted a senior minister as saying. The move is likely backed by China, with geo-political and economic interests at the core. According to a

A German think tank said Wednesday it is closing its Hong Kong office following China's imposition of a sweeping new national security law on the territory. The Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom, which is linked to Germany's opposition Free Democratic Party, said it

South Punjab has witnessed an increase in the number of incidents of blackmailing and harassment of women over the past two months, a top official at the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) said Friday. The FIA received some 50 complaints of blackmailing and harassment of women in the

A package containing ricin poison that was addressed to US President Donald Trump has been intercepted before it reached the White House, officials told US media. The letter was discovered at a screening facility for White House mail earlier this week, the officials said. They said

The ongoing atrocities on Uyghur Muslims in China's Xinjiang region has drawn criticism from even the young Israelis as they feel "this is almost like a genocide in making". In a conversation with Radio Free Asia's Uyghur Service, Anne Destiny 1, a social activist

Experts from four countries -India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Myanmar have joined hands to enhance conservation of river dolphins in the region, paving way for regional cooperation. A webinar on "Exploring the impact of COVID-19 on the ecosystem health of rivers and its dolphin

Days after the US imposed a ban on import of five specific manufacturers in Xinjiang, Swedish clothing icon H&M has decided not to buy raw materials from the region's farms and factories suspected of using "forced labour". The fashion house said on Tuesday that it

US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, an iconic champion of women's rights, has died of cancer at the age of 87, the court has said. Ginsburg died on Friday of metastatic pancreatic cancer at her home in Washington, DC, surrounded by her family, the statement said.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah was discharged from Delhi's All India Institutes of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) hospital on Thursday, four days after he was re-admitted for a check-up after recovering from COVID-19. The BJP leader was admitted to AIIMS on Sunday night, nearly two weeks

Demanding a reversal of their exile, Kashmiri Pandit representatives have urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah to sit for an urgent meeting. Rich tributes were showered on the martyrs on the eve of Balidan Divas at a Webinar- Mahapanchayat of Kashmir

The Hong Kong government has said it will not interfere in the arrest of 12 Hong Kongers by Chinese authorities when they were trying to flee to Taiwan. In a statement late on Sunday, the government said the families of the 12 individuals has requested the administration for help, Al

Barbados has announced its intention to remove Queen Elizabeth as its head of state and become a republic. "The time has come to fully leave our colonial past behind," the Caribbean island nation's government said. It aims to complete the process in time for the 55th

Tropical Storm Sally has left more than half a million Americans without power as its torrential rains and storm surges lashed the US Gulf coast. Sally weakened after it made landfall as a Category 2 hurricane on Wednesday, but the slow-moving storm continues to batter Florida and

India on Sunday gifted to Nepal a consignment of disaster relief material including tents and plastic sheets for distribution to flood and landslide affected families in five districts of the Himalayan nation. The consignment was handed over by India's deputy envoy in Nepal, Namgya

Singers, composers have taken an initiative to take the rich classical music of Jammu and Kashmir including sufiyana, classical, and folk at a global stage by taking different genres of musicians together to prepare a special album namely ‘Qarrar’. But unfortunately, all the

Uyghur American activist Rushan Abbas recently protested on the second anniversary of her sister’s detention in northwestern China’s Xinjiang province in front of the Chinese Embassy in the United States, media reports said on Sunday. She demanded safe release of her family

Israel's rapprochement with Gulf Arab states has left the Palestinians feeling abandoned by traditional allies and clutching an old playbook in a rapidly changing Middle East, analysts and critics say. As the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain prepare to sign normalization accords

US President Donald Trump has denied that he downplayed the seriousness of Covid-19, despite admitting in a recorded interview having done that. At a televised event with voters, Mr Trump said he had "up-played" it. The claim contradicts what Mr Trump told journalist Bob