Islamabad, Feb 25 (IANS) The main highway connecting Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab provinces remained shut on Wednesday after a suicide attack at the Dajil checkpost near the Dera Darya Khan bridge in the Bhakkar district, resulting in commuters and traders facing inconvenience, local media reported.
New Delhi, Feb 25 (IANS) As Prime Minister Narendra Modi embarks on a two-day visit to Israel, the BJP on Wednesday said that the visit would not only strengthen trade ties between India and Israel but also deepen cultural and civilisational bonds between the two nations.
New Delhi, Feb 25 (IANS) The revision of three‑decade‑old tax treaty between India and France will lower dividend levies for large French investors including Sanofi, Renault and L'Oreal and safeguard India's tax base, a report has said.
Jerusalem, Feb 25 (IANS) As Prime Minister Narendra Modi embarked on his two-day State visit to Israel on Wednesday, President Isaac Herzog stated that the people of Israel look forward to welcoming him.
Quetta, Feb 25 (IANS) As violence against civilians intensifies across Balochistan, a leading human rights organisation on Wednesday brought to light the extrajudicial killings of two civilians and the enforced disappearance of five others across the province, allegedly at the hands of Pakistani forces.
Paris, Feb 25 (IANS) A leading international human rights organisation strongly condemned the recent "misconduct" by lawyers at the Court of the Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate in Bangladesh's Barishal district over the granting of bail to several leaders of the Awami League.
Geneva, Feb 25 (IANS) India has emphasised the urgent necessity of safeguarding strategic stability and averting a fresh global arms race, cautioning that growing geopolitical uncertainties are coinciding with the erosion of key arms control mechanisms.
New Delhi, Feb 25 (IANS) A little known group called the Tehreek-e-Taliban Hindustan (TTH) has claimed responsibility for the recent killing of police personnel at a border outpost in Punjab. This has led Intelligence agencies to believe that there are renewed efforts to destabilise Punjab through tactical escalation.
Dhaka, Feb 25 (IANS) Bangladesh's Awami League on Wednesday paid homage to those who lost their lives in the 2009 Pilkhana massacre and called for an end to "political exploitation" of the incident.
Washington, Feb 25 (IANS) President Donald Trump strode into the House chamber to chants of “USA, USA, USA”, and delivered a State of the Union address built as much for the room as for the cameras -- a rolling blend of victory lap, grievance and theatre that cast his second-term as a national rescue mission and his opponents as the one remaining obstacle to a promised “golden age of America”.
