Brussels: The EU on Tuesday pledged a one-billion-euro ($1.2-billion) aid package for Afghanistan, "to avert a major humanitarian and socio-economic collapse," the bloc s chief Ursula von der Leyen said. The money adds 250 million euros to a 300-million-euro sum the EU previously announced for urgent

Seoul: Standing beside North Korea’s largest missiles, leader Kim Jong Un said his country’s weapons development is necessary in the face of hostile policies from the United States and a military buildup in South Korea, state media said on Tuesday. Pyongyang was only increasing its military

An eerie silence hung over the Roorkee church that was vandalised by a mob of over 200 people, including women, a week ago. The mob, allegedly of local right-wingers, damaged all the furniture and sound equipment, and attacked church volunteers gathered for Sunday prayers on

Mumbai: The Indian Congress demanded the immediate dismissal of Union junior home minister Ajay Mishra, whose son Ashish has been arrested for allegedly mowing down four farmers in Lakhimpur Kheri. State Congress president Nana Patole, Mumbai party Congress chief Bhai Jagtap and state NCP president Jayant

Islamabad: In a major diplomatic breakthrough on Kashmir issue on Pakistan's position on Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK), two resolutions highlighting human rights abuses, militarization of IIOJK have been presented to Swedish Parliament for discussion by ruling Social Democrat Party. Pakistan Ambassador to Sweden Dr Zahoor Ahmed

Islamabad: In a major diplomatic breakthrough on the Kashmir issue on Pakistan's position on IIOJK, two resolutions on the situation in the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu & Kashmir (IIOJK) have been presented to the Swedish Parliament for discussion. These resolutions urge the Swedish government, in cooperation

The suspected draft Agreement between Maldives and India was to develop the coast guard harbor of Maldives National Defense Force (MNDF) along with a dockyard upon completion of the project at a strategic location of Maldives Uthuru Thila Falhu (UTF). Maldives signed the USD 50 million

Islamabad: Indians are furious over the release of images of captured and badly bruised Indian army officers and men during the China-India clashes in Galwan valley in the Himalayan border area in 2020. The images widely shared on social media showed scores of Indian soldiers beaten

Washington: Two dozen countries have joined a U.S.- and EU-led effort to slash methane emissions 30 percent by 2030, giving the emerging global partnership momentum ahead of its launch at the U.N. climate summit in Glasgow later this month, a government official told Reuters. Nigeria, Japan

Moscow: Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny said on Monday that a prison commission had designated him an extremist and a terrorist, but officially no longer regarded him as a flight risk. Navalny said on Instagram that he had been summoned before a commission which voted unanimously