MAZAR-I-SHARIF, AFGHANISTAN: At least 12 people were killed, including two Ukrainians, when a helicopter crashed in northern Afghanistan on Sunday, Afghan and foreign officials said. The aircraft, owned by a Moldovan company, was carrying 14 people including 11 members of Afghan security forces w

KATHMANDU: A domestic aircraft of a private air service provider skidded off the runway of Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) in Kathmandu, injuring five passengers on board. "The Aircraft bearing the call sign 9NAHW was carrying 21 passengers from Nepalgunj to Kathmandu. It skidded off the ru

A 41-year-old woman from Hyderabad, who was allegedly trafficked to Saudi Arabia's Riyadh, died under mysterious circumstances. The family of the victim suspects that she might have been ''murdered'' by her employer and has sought the help from the External Affairs Minister (EAM) Sushma Swaraj in

Pakistan on Friday expressed its support to Iran on the international nuclear deal related to the Iranian nuclear issue during talks between foreign ministers of the two countries, the Foreign Ministry said. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, who arrived in Pakistan on Thursday on a t

UN chief Antonio Guterres has expressed regret over the US’ decision to provide no further funding to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, urging other countries to help fill the financial gap. His remarks came after the US decided to stop funding to the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestin

President Donald Trump has reportedly rejected as “not good enough” a European Union proposal scrapping tariffs on automobiles, a move which threatens to amplify a simmering trans-Atlantic trade dispute. Just hours earlier, the EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstroem had said the bloc was “willi

GUWAHATI (ASSAM): An alert has been sounded in three Siang districts of Arunachal Pradesh and in Upper Assam after China informed India that the water level of the Tsangpo river was rising. The water discharge in the Brahmaputra basin by China last week is highest in last 50 years. The Tsangpo, as

A nine-year-old boy in Denver, Colorado, has committed suicide on the first week of school after being bullied by classmates for coming out as gay, his mother says. Leia Pierce told local media that her son, Jamel Myles, killed himself at their home last Thursday after enduring several days of ho

An Indian-origin employee of Singapore’s DBS Bank has lost his job after he posted on Facebook an image of the country’s torn flag to reveal the Indian flag underneath on the eve of India’s Independence Day. Avijit Das Patnaik had on August 14 posted a picture on the Facebook page of the Singapor

A woman journalist of a television channel in Bangladesh has been hacked to death with a sharp-edged weapon by some unidentified assailants at her home, media reports said today. Subarna Nodi, 32, was a correspondent of private news channel Ananda TV and also worked for the Daily Jagroto Bangla n

At least eight people have been killed and 12 wounded in a suicide car bombing at a checkpoint near the Iraq-Syria border. The Reuters news agency reported on Wednesday that a car rigged with explosives drove into the checkpoint in al-Qaim district as it was jointly manned by the Iraqi army and S

BEIJING: China on Monday welcomed the joint participation by India and Pakistan in the ongoing counter-terrorism drill of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in Russia. According to the Chinese media, some 3,000 soldiers from China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, India and Pa

ISLAMABAD: India and Pakistan will resume their talks on various aspects of the Indus Waters Treaty in Lahore on Wednesday, the first bilateral engagement since Prime Minister Imran Khan took office. India's Indus Water Commissioner PK Saxena will begin the two-day discussions with his Pakistani

Iran's top defence official has met Syria's President Bashar al-Assad and the country's defence minister in Damascus, pledging to contribute to the war-torn country's reconstruction. Tehran has provided steady political, financial and military backing to Assad during the civil war which is in its

HANOI: External affairs minister Sushma Swaraj arrived in Hanoi on Sunday night as part of her four-day visit to Vietnam and Cambodia, which aims at deepening India's strategic cooperation with the two key nations in the ASEAN region. India's ties are on an upswing with the two major countries in

TEHRAN: A strong 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck western Iran near the border with Iraq early Sunday, killing two people and injuring more than 250, officials said. The shallow quake hit 26 kilometres (16 miles) southwest of the city of Javanrud in Kermanshah province, the US Geological Survey sa

California: Akali Dal leader and Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC) president Manjit Singh GK was attacked by a group of unknown men at the Yuba City Gurdwara in California on Saturday. Three people have so far been arrested in connection with the attack. The attackers pushed Singh

ISLAMABAD: At least 42 Pakistani pilgrims have died during this year’s annual Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, according to Pakistani government’s figures. Most of the deaths occurred due to suffocation or road accidents. Last year, 108 Pakistani pilgrims had died during Hajj, showing a decline of 8