India's contribution to the improved global growth outlook extends well beyond the immediate AI boom or the performance of energy-exporting economies. The IMF's assessment points instead to a combination of domestic demand, demographics, market expansion and structural reforms as important drivers of India's longer-term prospects.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said that 1.3 billion Indians have embarked on one mission - to make an "Aatmanirbhar Bharat", a self-reliant India, which seeks to merge the local with the global and ensure India's strengths act as a global force multiplier
Maiya Sainju is the in-charge of urban health clinic at the office of Ward No. 32 of Kathmandu Metropolitan City
Floods and landslides claimed at least 14 lives in Dhorpatan, Baglung, today. As many as 39 people have gone missing, according to the Province Police Office of Pokhara
Lt Gen (retd) Asim Saleem Bajwa has decided to step down as a top prime ministerial aide shortly after debunking scandalous allegations of assets concealment in a detailed rebuttal shared on the popular micro-blogging site Twitter
India on Thursday appeared uninterested in securing relief for its spy from Pakistani courts, which resulted in a deadlock over the appointment of a defence lawyer for Kulbhushan Jadhav to plead his case before the Islamabad High Court (IHC)
The federal and provincial governments in Pakistan have identified major hurdles such as lack of permanent appointments of Project Directors (PDs), opening up of bank accounts, acquisition of land and inability to establish proper coordination among different agencies for execution of multi-billion funded projects financed by multilateral donors
An Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) chartered oil tanker ‘New Diamond on Thursday caught fire 37 nautical miles off the Sri Lankan coast
The Sri Lanka Navy, Sri Lanka Air Force, Sri Lanka Ports Authority, the Indian Navy and the Indian Coast Guard are currently working together to control the fire that erupted in an oil tanker off Sri Lanka’s Eastern Coast on Thursday, the Navy said
A nine-member experts’ committee has been appointed to draft a new constitution, stated the Co-Cabinet Spokesman Minister Udaya Gammanpila during a media briefing held at the Government Media Centre today (03)
Sri Lanka will expand the storage capacity for fuel in the country to boost buffer stocks when ships are delayed, Energy Minister Udaya Gammanpila said
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) supremo and former prime minister Khaleda Zia can stay out of prison for six more months, but in this period she cannot leave the country and has to receive treatment at her residence, the Law Ministry said
As much as 617 metric tons of fish worth Tk 12 crore died in ponds and water bodies of Rajshahi due to lack of oxygen because of scorching heat, said District Fisheries official
The positivity rate for Covid-19 testing in Bangladesh has come down to the lowest 14.96 percent in more than three months as the health directorate reported 2,158 new cases in 24 hours till 8:30am yesterday
Freedom fighters in Bangladesh's port city of Chittagong have given a seven-day ultimatum to take action against MP Mostafizur Rahman Chowdhury and also demanded the cancellation of his parliamentary seat and expulsion from the ruling party Bangladesh Awami League
Deborah Lyons, UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Afghanistan, while briefing the UN Security Council on Thursday called for a humanitarian ceasefire to be announced in the country as the negotiating teams of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and the Taliban prepare to sit in Doha for talks that are aimed to end the deadly conflict that has gripped the nation for the past two decades
