Mumbai, Oct 10 (IANS) Zimbabwe is in talks with NPCI International Payments Ltd (NIPL) -- the arm of India’s National Payments Corporation of India -- to licence the technology behind the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) as a shared domestic rail for real‑time payments, a new report has said.
Ottawa, Oct 10 (IANS) Canada cannot preserve its sovereignty by accommodating movements that reject the sovereignty of other nations. It can protect Sikh religious life, free speech and political participation without legitimising a separatist agenda, a report has stated.
New Delhi, Oct 10 (IANS) Bangladesh is facing acute environmental and public‑health risks from rising pesticide and chemical fertiliser use, a new report has said.
London, Oct 10 (IANS) Bangladesh’s radical Islamist party Jamaat-e-Islami has leveraged the patronage it received under the former Muhammad Yunus-led interim government to strengthen its presence in major centres of learning, including Dhaka University and Chittagong University, through its student wing, Islamic Chhatra Shibir, a report has stated.
Dublin, Oct 10 (IANS) A leading international human rights organisation has raised the alarm over targeted attacks against Bangladeshi Hindu woman human rights defender Shampa Goswami, warning that the harassment is rooted in her gender and minority identity amid a wider climate of violence and discrimination against Hindu minorities in Bangladesh.
New Delhi, Oct 10 (IANS) The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) continues to champion AI as a symbol of national progress, but there is no parallel policy to retrain displaced workers, create new employment avenues, or provide social safety nets, a new report has revealed.
Islamabad, Oct 10 (IANS) Pakistan’s religious minorities continued to face violence, discrimination and persecution throughout 2025, with blasphemy accusations and minority women and girls remaining at risk of abduction, forced conversion and forced marriage, a minority rights organisation said, citing a report by the National Commission for Justice and Peace (NCJP).
Kathmandu, Oct 10 (IANS) Gagan Thapa was re-elected president of the Nepali Congress with an overwhelming majority at the party's 15th general convention, as a rival faction led by former Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba prepares to hold its own general convention in December.
Vientiane, Oct 10 (IANS) China’s newly-opened military facility at Ban Keun Airport in Laos, its first publicly acknowledged overseas facility centred on air power, could give the air force of People’s Liberation Army (PLA) a staging and transit base in Southeast Asia and be used to complicate US military operations in the Andaman Sea and the Strait of Malacca, a report has cautioned.
Washington, Oct 10 (IANS) President Donald Trump's agreement to secure Russian diesel supplies has triggered accusations of double standards from American commentators and social media users, who questioned why Washington penalised India for buying Russian oil while now seeking fuel from Moscow to ease its own energy crisis.
