24-09-2025 KATHMANDU: Nepal’s interim government, led by former Chief Justice Sushila Karki, has set up a panel to investigate the violence during anti-corruption protests this month that killed 74 people and forced Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli to quit, a minister said on Monday. The demonstrations, which began as a …

24-09-2025 PYONGYANG: North Korea’s Kim Jong Un said there was no reason to avoid talks with the US if Washington stopped insisting his country give up nuclear weapons but he would never abandon the nuclear arsenal to end sanctions, state media reported on Monday. “Personally, I still have fond memories …

24-09-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India’s Supreme Court on Monday asked the government to respond to a plea seeking an independent investigation into the Air India plane crash on June 12 that killed 260 people. The top court was responding to a public interest litigation filed by NGO Safety Matters …

24-09-2025 TEHRAN: Hardline lawmakers in Iran have once again demanded the country start building a nuclear bomb as Western powers are days away from reimposing United Nations sanctions amid concerns war could restart with Israel. Led by a lawmaker from the ultraconservative holy Shia city of Mashhad in northeastern Iran, …

24-09-2025 KABUL: The Taliban government has rejected President Donald Trump’s attempt to regain control of Bagram Air Base, which the United States abandoned to the Afghan government during its military withdrawal from the Middle Eastern country four years ago. The United States left the country in a hasty exit that …

24-09-2025 PARIS: On an early September morning, a pig’s head, covered in blood, was discovered at the doorstep of the Javel mosque in the heart of Paris. On it, a name had been scrawled in blue ink: Macron. A couple of kilometers (about a mile) from the Eiffel Tower, the …

24-09-2025 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: After taking multiple economic hits in his household, Gurvinder Singh, a 47-year-old farmer in Gurdaspur, in India’s Punjab state, took a million-rupee loan ($11,000) from a private lender to marry off his eldest daughter. He saved a portion of that and used it …

ISLAMABAD – The Senate Standing Committee on Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resource Development was informed on Tuesday that reports claiming 40,000 Pakistani pilgrims had gone missing in Iraq were baseless and exaggerated. Chairing the committee meeting, Senator Zeeshan Khanzada heard a detailed clarification from Senator Raja Nasir Abbas, who dismissed …

23-09-2025 WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump on Saturday threatened “bad things” would happen to Afghanistan if it does not give back control of the Bagram air base to the United States, and declined to rule out sending in troops to retake it. “If Afghanistan doesn’t give Bagram Airbase back to …

Abbas Jaffri PMI Men below 50 will be eligible to apply if they are accompanied by their families. Iraqi authorities have issued new regulations for pilgrims visiting the country’s sacred religious sites, imposing age-related conditions for visa issuance. According to the Ministry of Religious Affairs and Interfaith Harmony’s spokesperson, Muhammad …