Udhampur (Jammu Kashmir) [India], Aug 15 (ANI): A Ceremonial Border Personnel Meeting (BPM) on the occasion of Independence Day was conducted on Thursday at Indian BPM Huts at Chushul-Moldo and DBO -TWD Meeting Points of Eastern Ladakh.
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], Aug 15 (ANI): Sri Lankan Tourism Minister John Amaratunga has said that post-Easter bombings, the tourism industry in his country has suffered a huge loss.
Colombo [Sri Lanka], Aug 14 (ANI): The Catholic Bishops' Conference in Sri Lanka (CBCSL) has urged the government to hold an "independent and impartial" inquiry into the Easter Sunday terror attacks as a matter of utmost urgency.
Colombo [Sri Lanka], Aug 13 (ANI): Term of the Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC), which is probing the Easter Sunday attacks that killed more than 250 people across Sri Lanka, will be extended by another month, its chairman and Deputy Speaker Ananda Kumarasiri said on Tuesday.
Morogoro [Tanzania], Aug 10 (ANI): At least 61 people were killed and many others were wounded after a crashed fuel tanker exploded while people were trying to siphon off fuel from the vehicle in Tanzania's Eastern city of Morogoro on Saturday, police said.
Beijing [China], Aug 10 (ANI): At least 13 people were killed and 16 others went missing as super Typhoon Lekima battered the eastern coastal region of China on Saturday morning, the state-run CGTN network reported.
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], Aug 9 (ANI): West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has written to Union Minister of Railways Piyush Goyal expressing her concern over the 'underdeveloped' stretch of Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor (EDFC) for which she claimed her state has acquired 70
London [UK], Aug 9 (ANI): Massive power cuts were reported across large parts of London and South-Eastern England following a suspected failure in Britain's National Grid network on Friday evening (local time).
Kabul [Afghanistan], Aug 8 (ANI): Two consecutive explosions injured at least nine people, including two police personnel, in Khost city, capital of Afghanistan's eastern Khost province on Thursday, provincial police spokesman Haider Adil said.
Baghpat (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Aug 8 (ANI): Three people died and one person sustained critical injuries after the car they were travelling in was hit by a truck on the Eastern Peripheral Expressway near Mawi Kalan here.
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], Aug 7 (ANI): Commander of Royal Brunei Armed Forces (RBAF) visited the Eastern Command (EC) Headquarters and held talks with Chief of Staff (EC) in a two-day visit which concluded on Wednesday.
Colombo [Sri Lanka], Aug 7 (ANI): Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has said that the Sri Lankan government, along with the cabinet of ministers, are responsible for the mistakes and lapses which enabled a local terror group to launch successful attacks on Easter Sunday that killed more th