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'Amphan' intensifies into super cyclone over eastern India, Bangladesh

The India Meteorological Department on Monday said that extremely severe cyclonic storm Amphan over the west and central parts of Bay of Bengal has intensified into a "super cyclone" with wind speed above 200 km per hour

India says no plan to extend coronavirus lockdown

India has no plans to extend a 21-day lockdown to contain the spread of the deadly COVID-19 virus in the country. The announcement came on Monday from the government's top bureaucrat

Bhutan’s bureaucrats to contribute 5 to 10% of salary for COVID-19 fund

Bureaucrats in Bhutan will be contributing five to 10 percent of their salaries for the COVID-19 relief fund set up by the government, the Royal Civil Servant Commission (RCSC) has said

Bhutan announces physical distancing measures for public transport

The Bhutanese government has announced several physical distancing measures to be followed in all public transport facilities, including taxis, in the wake of COVID-19 pandemic

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Modi’s ‘annexation’ of Kashmir will lead to its independence: Pakistan PM

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan said Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “annexation” of “occupied Kashmir“ would eventually lead to its independence

OIC’s voice on Kashmir issue missing: Pakistan PM

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan, in his address at a Malaysian think-tank session on regional peace and security,  regretted that Muslim countries at the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) could not come up with one voice against blatant human rights violations in India-held Kashmir

Sri Lanka drops national anthem’s Tamil version at I-Day event

Sri Lanka’s new government declined to sing the national anthem in Tamil, the country’s second national language, during the island’s Independence Day celebrations, a departure from the previous government which sang the anthem in the country’s two primary languages to promote ethnic harmony in the aftermath of a decades-long civil war

Actions in Kashmir expose 'fiction of India's democracy', says Pakistan PM

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan said that the "unprecedented length" of restrictions imposed in occupied Kashmir have "fully exposed the fiction of India's democracy and its scant regard for basic human norms," Radio Pakistan reported

Afghan foreign ministry 'reforms' opposed

Afghan Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah has opposed President Ashraf Ghani's "reforms" of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and urged to stop any type of "hurried" moves both in the country's diplomatic offices abroad as well as in Kabul

International Criminal Court team visits Rohingya camps in Bangladesh

A delegation from the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) is on a visit to Bangladesh

India, Bangladesh armies in joint counter-terror exercise

Indian and Bangladesh armies will jointly practice counter-terrorist operations in a controlled and simulated environment at Umroi in Meghalaya from February 3-16 as part of their defence cooperation agreement

First coronavirus case in India detected in Kerala

India's health ministry said on Thursday said one positive case of Novel Coronavirus has come to light from Kerala

Bangladeshi woman gets relief under India's new citizenship act

The Karnataka High Court has granted bail to Bangladeshi Christian woman accused of being an "illegal immigrant"

Muslims should not be afraid of CAA: RSS chief

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat has said that some Muslims were trying to instil fear about the Citizenship (Amendment) Act in India in their community, adding that there was no need to be afraid of the law

Attack on Hindu temple: Pakistani minister for using blasphemy law

Hariram Kishori, Minister of Minority Affairs in Pakistan's Sindh province, has called for action against perpetrators of the attack on a Hindu temple in Tharparkar district's Chachro under the country's blasphemy law

Anti-terror operations intensify in Kashmir

There has been a spurt in anti-terror operations across Jammu & Kashmir with as many as 13 militants getting killed in seven shootouts with Indian security forces in the last one month alone

Indian Navy on humanitarian mission in Madagascar

The Indian Navy has launched a humanitarian mission in Madagascar. Bad weather has displaced nearly 107,000 people there, with Prime Minister Christian Ntsay declaring the situation a "national disaster"

US President likely to visit India end February

US President Donald Trump is likely to visit India between February 24-26. However, the dates are yet to be formally announced, Times of India reported

Taliban assault on Afghan police base kills 11

Taliban militants attacked a police base in northern Afghanistan, killing 11, possibly with help from at least one of the policemen inside, local government officials said on Tuesday