Qaisar Mansoor Bangladesh is starting formal negotiations with India for a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (Cepa). The negotiations are taking place at a time when Bangladesh is set to lose the duty-free and quota-free market-access facility to India after 2026 when it graduates to a developing
Ouagadougou: Burkina Faso’s new self-proclaimed putsch leader called for an end to violence against French targets, after a series of attacks against buildings linked to the former colonial power. “Things are progressively returning to order, so we urge you to freely go about your business and
Geneva: The United Nations has revised up its humanitarian appeal for Pakistan five-fold to $816 million from $160 million as it seeks to control a surge in water-borne diseases following the country's worst floods in decades, an official said on Monday. Nearly 1,700 people have been
London: King Charles III will not travel to next month’s United Nations climate summit in Egypt, Buckingham Palace confirmed, after UK Prime Minister Liz Truss reportedly “objected” to the keen environmentalist attending. Britain’s new monarch, who took the throne when his mother Queen Elizabeth II died
Washington: The US suicide rate rose in 2021, particularly among young men, according to official data— an increase that ends a two-year-decline. The number of suicides rose from around 46,000 in 2020 to 47,650 in 2021, according to preliminary figures released by the Centres of Disease
Vatican City: Pope Francis has for the first time directly appealed to Russia’s President Vladimir Putin to stop the “spiral of violence and death” in Ukraine, saying he is haunted by “rivers of blood and tears”. The head of the Catholic Church also condemned the annexation
Washington: NASA said it would try to launch its Moon mega-rocket in November, without committing to a precise date for the much-delayed Artemis 1 mission. The US space agency, which was forced to postpone its latest liftoff attempt due to massive Hurricane Ian which hammered Florida
Srinagar: International Day of Non-Violence is being observed on 02 October, on the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, pioneer of the philosophy and strategy of non-violence. Whereas, peace is something quite unknown to the people in IIOJK who are facing the worst state terrorism by India
