Islamabad, Dec 9 (IANS) Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan's sister Aleema Khan and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) members on Tuesday held a sit-in outside Adiala jail in Rawalpindi after jail authorities once again did not allow them to meet the founding PTI chairman, local media reported.
New Delhi/Colombo, Dec 9 (IANS) As part of its humanitarian support to Sri Lanka under Operation Sagar Bandhu following Cyclone Ditwah, India has been delivering life-saving assistance, essential relief supplies, and critical early-recovery capabilities across the island nation, including in areas that were badly impacted and had been rendered inaccessible, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said on Tuesday.
Nairobi, Dec 9 (IANS) The most comprehensive assessment of the global environment ever undertaken has found that investing in a stable climate, healthy nature and land, and a pollution-free planet can deliver trillions in additional global GDP, avoid millions of deaths and lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty and hunger.
Dhaka, Dec 9 (IANS) The dengue outbreak in Bangladesh is worsening rapidly, with infections and deaths rising sharply across the country. As many as three people died of dengue in Bangladesh in 24 hours till Tuesday, raising the death toll from the mosquito-borne disease to 401 in 2025, local media reported.
Nairobi, Dec 9 (IANS) Union Minister of State (MoS) for External Affairs Kirti Vardhan Singh arrived in Kenya on Tuesday to attend the seventh session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA), saying that India remains committed to enhancing efforts for environmental conservation and advancing policies of the UN Environment Programme for a sustainable ecosystem.
New Delhi, Dec 9 (IANS) Secretary (South), Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) Neena Malhotra met Suriname's outgoing Ambassador to India Arunkoemar Hardien in New Delhi on Tuesday and reviewed the progress in bilateral ties. Malhotra extended wishes to Hardien for his future endeavours.
Islamabad, Dec 9 (IANS) A leading minority rights group on Tuesday drew attention to the killing of a Christian spiritual leader in Pakistan, who was shot dead outside his residence in Punjab province, barely two months after narrowly surviving a similar attempt on his life in Islamabad.
Dhaka, Dec 9 (IANS) As political conflict escalates ahead of next year’s election in Bangladesh, differences between the radical Islamist party Jamaat-e-Islami and the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) over election campaigning in the Kazipur upazila of Sirajganj district erupted into violence, leaving around 15 Jamaat workers injured, local media reported on Tuesday.
New Delhi, Dec 9 (IANS) Italian Deputy Prime Minister Antonio Tajani will arrive here on Wednesday for a three-day official visit to India.
Islamabad, Dec 9 (IANS) A policeman was injured after assailants targeted a police station in Bannu district of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, local media reported.
