Naseer A. Faiq, Chargé d'Affaires of the Afghan mission to the UN, in press release said that he has submitted an amicus brief to a US District Court in New York calling on the court to preserve Afghanistan’s foreign exchange reserves solely for the benefit of Afghan people. Click here to read...
Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund, the prime minister of the Islamic Emirate, in a cabinet meeting asked the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs and the ICRC office to investigate the growing number of beggars in Kabul and to find solutions to address the issue. Click here to read...
Former President Hamid Karzai said that the people of Afghanistan want their girls to return to schools and there “is no way that the country can live without our girls going to school”. Click here to read...
Ministry of Interior Affairs of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan announced that the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) or Daesh has been eliminated by up to 98 percent in Afghanistan and is no more a threat. Click here to read...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday pledged to ensure houses for all homeless people in the country. Click here to read...
The Dhaka College authority finally formed a committee yesterday to verify whether their students were involved in clashes in the New Market area a week ago. Click here to read...
Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, expected to arrive tomorrow on a one-day visit, might carry good news, Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen said yesterday. Click here to read...
Bangladesh and India today inked two Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) extending for five more years bilateral cooperation in the areas of information technology and cyber security. Click here to read...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today greeted Emmanuel Macron on his re-election as the President of the French Republic. Click here to read...
For around four months the Department of Trade (DoT) had been trying everything officially and unofficially to get a break up of the fuel prices charged to Bhutan by fuel Oil companies in India. Click here to read...
A big development in this past week was the government through the Department of Geology and Mines, Ministry of Economic Affairs signing a 15-year lease with the State Mining Corporation Limited (SMCL) for the Chunaikhola Dolomite Mine and the Khothakpa Gypsum Mine. Click here to read...
Bhutan’s trade deficit last year was Nu 32.23B, the highest in the last five years, according to Bhutan Trade Statistics (BTS) 2021. Click here to read...
Although the government relaxed the Covid-19 protocols, budgetary agencies struggled to utilise the capital budget in the fiscal year 2021-22. Click here to read...
Bhutan called-for countries to support each other with rapid technological progress and ensure efficient water management system at the fourth Asia-Pacific Water Summit held yesterday, 23 April. Click here to read...
With the relaxation of restrictions, the JDWNRH allowed the delivery of food for patients and attendants from January 6. Since then, they have been coming across several cases on a daily basis of people trying to bring prohibited items inside the hospital. Click here to read...
Owing to the difference in economic and geographic size between the two neighbours, it is easy to perceive the India-Bhutan relationship as being tilted in favour of one but the truth is that the relationship is a mutually beneficial relationship based on shared cultural values and genuine all-weather friendship. Click here to read...
The World Bank last week approved $10 million to help Bhutan scale up its vaccination program against COVID 19, including providing booster doses to the eligible population. Click here to read...
The proposal was discussed during the meeting between Power and New and Renewable Energy Minister R K Singh and Maldives' Environment, Climate Change and Technology Minister Aminath Shauna in the national capital on Tuesday. Click here to read...
India is one of our strongest development partners and in fact India has invested heavily in our infrastructural projects, said Aminath Shauna, Maldives Minister of Environment, Climate Change and Technology. Click here to read...
The US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has drawn parallels between the situation of minority Christians in Myanmar with the persecution faced by Rohingya Muslims since 2017. In its annual report released on April 25, the US federal government commission said: “Faith communities, including ethnoreligious Christian minorities, now face persecution that some have likened to what the Rohingya have faced since 2017.” Click here to read...
People's Defence Force (PDF) fighters in Sagaing Region’s Kalay Township have said they killed around 20 members of the junta’s forces on Friday, including soldiers, officers and Pyu Saw Htee militiamen. Click here to read...
Key ethnic armed groups in Myanmar have unsurprisingly rejected an offer by the country’s military junta to take part in a new round of peace talks. Click here to read...
MYANMAR is a relatively small country on the Indochina peninsula. Its close neighbours are India, China and the other countries on the peninsula. Its geographical position means that it serves as a buffer zone between the two competing Asian giants, yet its role is not limited to that. Click here to read...
In Maungdaw township, situated on the western border of Rakhine State, at least four people were sentenced to long term imprisonment in connection with links to Arakan Army (AA) within month of April. On 21 April, the Maungdaw district court sentenced Nyi Nyi Naing (28 years old) from ward number 3 and U Aung Hla Thein (46) from Ngwe Taung village under Maungdaw township to 10 years in prison each under section 50 (i) of the Anti-Terrorism Act. Click here to read...
The national active Covid-19 caseload of Nepal active caseload has reached to 261 on Tuesday as eight people tested positive for the infection in past 24 hours. Click here to read...
During the election season, political forces make announcements of free goods and services which could do more harm than good and destroy the system. Click here to read...
The hardliners joining the elections is a good move and it does not matter whether they win or lose, experts say. Click here to read...
Deuba warns Congress rebels to back off. Oli tells UML mutineers to resist impulses. Click here to read...
This has heightened the country’s hydro hopes in terms of both domestic consumption and exporting the surplus power to neighboring India and Bangladesh – the best way to address the perennial problem of widening trade deficit. Click here to read...
The hearing on the case filed by Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) Governor Maha Prasad Adhkari against the government’s decision to suspend him could not be completed at the Supreme Court on Tuesday. Click here to read...
The Ministry of Education, Science and Technology has initiated discussions with the stakeholders in its bid to make the country's medical science education more systematic and qualitative. Click here to read...
“Pakistan cannot afford to have enmity with the US at all,” declared Mr Sharif while responding to a volley of questions from senior journalists during an Iftar dinner at Prime Minister House on Tuesday. Click here to read...
Imran Khan and his PTI are pursuing a policy of pressurising the military establishment to intervene and hold early elections. However, signs are that the defence forces are determined to remain apolitical on this issue. Click here to read...
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif is expected to request Saudi Arabia to increase the volume of the oil deferred payment facility to ease the pressure on foreign exchange reserves amid record oil prices in the global market in the wake of Russia-Ukraine war. Click here to read...
Sri Lanka has begun discussions with China about refinancing its debt, a cabinet spokesman said on Tuesday, as Colombo struggles with its worst financial crisis in decades. Click here to read...
After two trading halts earlier in the session, the Colombo Stock Exchange said the market will be closed for the rest of the day following a 10% slump in the blue-chip S&P SL20 index. The market shut just half an hour into trading on Monday. Click here to read...
Foreigners who deposit a minimum of $100,000 locally will be granted permission to live and work in Sri Lanka for 10 years under the "Golden Paradise Visa Program", the government said. Click here to read...
According to the Sri Lankan president's media division statement, the World Bank said it would continue to help Sri Lanka to overcome the current economic crisis. Click here to read...