Samyam Shreshta, Correspondent (Asia — South) KARACHI — Senior police official Chaudhry Aslam Khan, along with two other officers, was killed in a bomb blast in Karachi on Thursday. The blast took place at around 4:40 pm at Lyari Expressway near the Essa Nagri area of the city. A suicide bomber had overrun his vehicle into Aslam’s convoy to make the blast happen. The powerful explosion threw Aslam’s vehicle at least 20 meters away, […]
Ritambhara Rai Bhattarai Correspondent (Asia: South) TELANGANA — Indian congress party’s head Sonia Gandhi’s idol has been built in the Indian state of Telangana. Shankar Rao, a state legislator, has built the nine foot long bronze idol. Rao stated that the temple was built to honour Sonia Gandhi for her party’s decision to split Telangana from Andhra Pradesh and form a new state that is home to 35 million people. According to Rao, this is […]
Preeti A Karna, Correspondent (Asia – South) HANGU — A Pakistani schoolboy who died stopping a suicide bomber from attacking his school has been recommended for the highest award for bravery by the country. Fifteen year-old Aitzaz Hassan, a student in the Hangu district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province was on his way to school on January 6 when he witnessed a man wearing a vest and confronted him. The teenager tackled the man […]
Sadichchha Pokharel, Editor (Asia: South) NEW DELHI– Indian Minister of State for Human Resource Development Shashi Tharoor’s wife Sunanda Pushkar has been found dead in Room 345 of Leela hotel in Chanakyapuri neighbourhood in New Delhi. Pushkar and Tharoor were recently involved in a Twitter controversy where she had allegedly “exposed” Tharoor’s affair to his twitter followers. Pakistani journalist Mehr Tarar was blamed for “interfering” in the couple’s marriage in a press statement. Pushkar also […]
Suryatapa Mukherjee, Editor (South America) SANTIAGO — Santiago is currently facing a health hazard as smoke from several different forest fires have engulfed the Chilean capital forcing its residents to breathe the most polluted air in about fifteen years. President Sebastian Piñera issued a health alert in four out of the fifteen Chilean regions. The forest fires are blazing towards the south of the capital, almost 200 kms away. But the smoke blew northward […]
Ritambhara Rai Bhattarai, Correspondent (Asia: South) KABUL — The Hamid Karzi administration has decided to free 88 prisoners held in jail at Bagram air base, north of Kabul. According to U.S. officials, all the prisoners are Taliban fighters who were involved in killing at least 60 American soldiers and more than 50 civilians. The U.S. is not in favour of the decision and considers it to be a dangerous move. The Bagram was handed […]
Preeti A Karna, Correspondent (Asia – South) DHAKA – Bangladesh’s ruling party, Awami League saw its victory in the general elections that were held on January 5 amidst clashes and violence as the opposition party, Bangladesh Nationalist Party’s (BNP) vow to boycott the elections came into action. At least 18 people were killed during Sunday’s Election whereas dozens have died in the run-up to the elections. Violence persisted throughout the election process with clashes […]
Antonia Velikova, Correspondent (Asia: South) PESHAWAR — At least 21 people, including 19 students, are reported to have been killed in a deadly bus crash in Pakistan on Wednesday. The accident happened on Qazi Ahmed Link Road. Reports claim that the school bus, transporting the students back from a competition trip in Nawabshah, collided with a truck. The road is about 270 kilometres north of Karachi, in the southern province of Sindh. The students were from the Bright […]
Zeeshan Javaid, Correspondent (Asia — South) ISLAMABAD — The atomic power of South Asia region Pakistan, where public is compelled to live under poverty line, the premier of the country, Nawaz Sharif, has been officially declared as the richest parliamentarian of the country, owing net assets worth $17.279 million. Economic experts and watch dog agencies working in Pakistan termed this figure less than the actual net assets of country’s powerful industrialist family. How can it […]
Ritambhara Rai Bhattarai, Correspondent (Asia — South) MALE – The largest floating book fair operated by the German Christian charitable organisation GBA Ships visited Maldives after 40 years. The book fair, which aimed to tour all over the world was open to the public in Malé’s commercial harbour area till the 20th of December. An official opening of the book fair was done on December 18 where the Minister of Youth and Sports, Mohamed Maleeh […]
