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Ayodhya seers up in arms over Nepal PM's remarks on Lord Ram

Hindu saints and seers in Ayodhya are up in arms over the statement made by Nepal's Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli that the real Ayodhya was in Nepal and Lord Ram was a Nepali

Indian intervention causing floods in Nepal: Home Minister

Nepal's Minister for Home Affairs Ram Bahadur Thapa has stated that India’s ‘intervention’ has paved way for natural disasters in the country's  southern parts

Pakistan resumes Afghan exports to India via Wagah border

The Pakistan government has decided to re-open the Wagah border, allowing Afghan exports to India from Wednesday

India's Tech Mahindra airlifts staff stranded in US

A special chartered flight of Tech Mahindra from the US landed here on Tuesday with 210 employees and dependents

26-week old miracle baby survives two surgeries

Miracle at the time of COVID-19 pandemic is indeed rare, but it happened with a 26-week old baby, who survived two invasive surgeries

Oli's shocker: India created fake Ayodhya, Ram was from Nepal

Nepal Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli has claimed that India has created a 'fake' Ayodhya, and Lord Ram was originally from Nepal -- a shocking statement that has come at a time when India's diplomatic ties with the Himalayan nation is going through uncertain times

ADB-funded development in Bangladesh: 40 projects hit by pandemic

The coronavirus pandemic has slowed down the implementation of at least 40 of the 49 projects funded by the Asian Development Bank in Bangladesh

Google to pump in $10 bn to help India's digital transformation

Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai on Monday announced a Google for India Digitisation Fund through which the company will invest Rs 75,000 crore, or approximately $10 billion, over the next five to seven years to drive digital transformation in the country

21 trafficked Nepali women coming home after nine months in India

After nine months of languishing in the Indian state of Manipur, the Nepal Embassy in India has finally rescued a group of 21 Nepali women who were en route to Persian Gulf countries on foreign employment

Pakistan reopens Wagah border for Afghan exports

Pakistan has decided to resume Afghan exports through the Wagah border crossing from July 15, 2020, after implementing coronavirus-related protocols.According to a statement issued by the Foreign Office on Monday, this measure was taken under the Pakistan-Afghanistan Transit Trade Agreement (APTTA), and at the request of the Afghanistan government

Pakistan meets UN climate change goal a decade ahead of deadline

Though among the countries most vulnerable to global warming, Pakistan has passed a crucial milestone on the road to environmental protection by meeting the overarching United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 13, which calls for urgent actions to combat climate change and its impacts, 10 years ahead of the deadline, reveals the UN Sustainable Development Report 2020

Maldives to establish air corridor with India

The Maldives has requested to establish a special travel arrangement with India when the Maldives’ border reopens after a hiatus of nearly four months

IIIT Delhi develops AI model to repurpose existing drugs to treat COVID-19

The Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology (IIIT-Delhi) on Sunday said it has developed an Artificial Intelligence (AI) model for drug repositioning in the treatment of COVID-19

Nepal writes to India over 'malicious' media reports

Nepal has sent a letter to the government of India expressing concerns over the defamatory materials featured in some Indian television channels and urged the latter to take steps against those slanderous materials

H&M Foundation support for Bangladesh's female apparel workers

H&M Foundation, a non-profit platform of the Swedish fashion giant H&M Group, is initiating a long-term project to support female apparel workers in Bangladesh, starting with their urgent needs connected to COVID-19 pandemic