Kabul: Three female media workers were shot dead in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad on Tuesday, government officials said, amid a wave of killings that is spreading fear among professional workers in urban centers. Zalmai Latifi, head of local broadcaster Enikas TV, said the three

Yangon: - Four people were shot dead during a protest in Myanmar’s Sagaing region while two others were killed in the country’s second-largest city, medics said Wednesday. "My team handled the dead bodies and contacted the families" in Sagaing region, rescue worker Myo Min Tun told

Ankara: India was once again left embarrassed on Thursday after Turkish authorities closed down a website being operated by India to spread anti-Pakistan propaganda. This was revealed by  Abdul Akbar, a diplomat at the Pakistan Embassy at Ankara. Taking to Twitter, Akbar disclosed that the website, www.hamsvasser.com

New Delhi: The Delhi Police closed the Ghazipur border, hours after it reopened a portion of NH-9 for the traffic movement. The one side of the National Highway (NH)-9 which goes towards Ghaziabad from Delhi was opened for traffic around 2 AM on Tuesday. The stretch has

Tikrit: Iraq and the US have denied evacuating hundreds of staff of Lockheed Martin Corp and Sallyport Global from an Iraqi military base where they work as contractors, the Iraqi and US military spokespersons confirmed Wednesday. Four separate military sources, who spoke to Reuters on the

New Delhi: Attacking the Centre, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said that unemployment is high in the country and its informal sector is in shambles following the "ill-considered demonetisation decision" taken by the BJP-led government in 2016. He also criticised the Union government for

Srinagar: Former Chief Minister of PDP-BJP coalition in erstwhile Jammu and Kashmir State, Mehbooba Mufti said that the Kashmir issue was not about raods and development but a “far bigger issue”. “Jammu and Kashmir issue is not about roads and lanes but a far bigger issue.

Islamabad: In 2020, India topped list of 29 countries that blocked access to the internet despite increased demand during COVID-19, while over the past year billions of people all over the world have relied heavily on internet connectivity to keep in touch with family and

PARIS: A court in France on Monday found former president Nicolas Sarkozy guilty of corruption, handing him a three-year prison sentence in a ruling that deals a major blow to any lingering political ambitions. The three-year jail sentence includes two years as suspended and the remaining

Paris: Lawyers representing survivors of a chemical weapons attack in 2013 in Syria have filed a criminal complaint against Syrian officials whom they blame for the deaths of hundreds of civilians in a rebel-held area. France is home to thousands of Syrian refugees, and its investigating