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IMF’s Map of a Broken World has one Exception - India’s Growth and Resilience

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.

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Facebook executives asked to appear before Indian parliamentary panel on September 2

India's Parliamentary Panel on IT has summoned representatives of Facebook to appear before the committee on September 2 to discuss the subject of "safeguarding citizens' rights and prevention of misuse of social/online news media platforms including special emphasis on women security in the digital space"

Asteroid which ruffled Earth's gravity discovered by IIT-B students

A SUV-sized asteroid that zoomed past just 2,950 km above the Earth's surface on August 16, disturbing the gravity, was discovered by two students of IIT-Bombay, hailing from Pune and Haryana, officials said

India's Chandrayaan-2 completes a year of orbiting the moon

It is one year since India's second moon spacecraft Chandrayaan-2 was inserted into the lunar orbit, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said on Thursday

Former PM Dahal tells PM Oli to rescind political appointments

Co-chair of the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) Pushpa Kamal Dahal today told Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli to withdraw recent political appointments as that could adversely affect the environment within the party at a time when a task force had already been formed to solve the intra-party feud

India returnees being sent home directly

Though people returning home from abroad and even outside the district are normally quarantined before being sent home due to COVID-19-related risk, this is not being practised in Bajura’s Budhiganga Municipality

Confusion and chaos as Valley residents wake up to new COVID-19 restrictions

Kumar Timilsena had opened his store at Kupondole for just half an hour on Thursday morning when policemen came on motorcycles, sirens blaring, and told him to close his shop

Pakistan’s debt soars to Rs36.3tr

The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government added Rs11.35 trillion in the public debt during the first two years in power, which was more than the total debt the previous government had taken in its five-year term

Pakistan bars citizens of Israel, India in outsourcing of airports

With a plan to set up Pakistan Airports Authority (PAA), the government has placed a bar on involving citizens of Israel and India in the process of outsourcing Pakistani airports

Bangladesh PM pitches for investment in industrialisation, setting up of SEZs

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday said that there is a need to create special economic zones to attract domestic and foreign players in the country

Bangladesh blogger murder: Chargesheet filed against 9 militants

The Counter-Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police has filed a chargesheet against 9 militants of banned outfit Ansar-al-Islam including Syed Ziaul Haque, a sacked army officer, chief of Ansar al-Islam's military wing in a case related to the killing of a secular online activist and blogger Nazimuddin Samad

Investigate US-Ziaur Rahman ‘connection’ behind Bangabandhu killing: US journalist

American journalist Lawrence Lifschultz has said the “connection” between Ziaur Rahman and the United States behind the assassination of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman should be investigated

Russia ships first reactor vessel, steam generator for Bangladesh nuclear power plant

Russia’s AEM-Technology has shipped the first key elements of Bangladesh’s Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant

Massive Tk 19,280cr school-feeding programme awaits approval

The Bangladesh government has chalked out a mammoth Tk 19,280 crore project proposal to provide daily school meals to all 1.41 crore government primary school students in a bid to increase attendance and reduce dropouts

It’s India’s move to refresh ties with neighbours, say Bangladesh analysts

Indian Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla's two-day visit to Dhaka is part of India's larger policy to boost relations with its neighbours as China seeks to draw them closer to it, foreign relations analysts said

Pakistan's braggart minister threatens India with nuclear war which won't harm Muslims

Pakistan Federal Minister Sheikh Rashid has threatened India with nuclear war once again, saying the weapons will be such that they will save the Muslims during the attack