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Bangladesh hikes fuel prices by 50 pc, highest in history
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Dhaka [Bangladesh], August 6 (ANI): Bangladesh has increased fuel prices by around 50 per cent, the highest hike since the country's independence in 1971, local media reported on Saturday.
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Over 60 booked for assaulting education officials in Pakistan
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], August 6 (ANI): More than 60 Pakistani officials from the education department including teachers, and clerks were booked for violence, assaults and obstructing other officials of the department from performing their duties, local media reported on Saturday.
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Pakistan: Election Commission announces bypolls on 9 Assembly seats on Sep
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], August 6 (ANI): The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Friday announced that by-elections on nine National Assembly (NA) seats will be held on September 25, local media reported.
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US: 3 killed in lightning strike near White House
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 6 (ANI):Three people are dead and one injured following a lightning strike across the street from the White House on Thursday night, according to local media reports.
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Faced with heavy rains, Pakistan imposes 'Monsoon Emergency'
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], August 6 (ANI): Amidst the ongoing devastation and wreckage caused by heavy rains and floods in different parts of Pakistan, the Federal Ministry for Climate Change in Pakistan has warned of more rains in the coming weeks as the federal cabinet declared a "monsoon emerg
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Pakistan Election Commission serves two notices to Imran Khan over poll c
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], August 6 (ANI): The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) served two notices on former prime minister and the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan on Friday in two references relating to the case of prohibited foreign funding, in which the ECP had ruled that
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Undeterred by Chinese aggression, US says it's committed to security of al
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 6 (ANI): Amid China's military muscle-flexing across the Taiwan Strait, US Secretary Antony Blinken on Friday (local time) said that Washington is committed to the security of its allies and partners including Japan.
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Blinken speaks with Armenian PM, Azerbaijani President, calls for de-escal
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 6 (ANI): US State Secretary Antony Blinken on Friday (local time) spoke with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and called for a de-escalation in and around Nagorno-Karabakh.
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Global culture emerging as threat to local identities: CJI Ramana
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], August 5 (ANI): Chief Justice of India NV Ramana on Friday said that the global culture is emerging as a threat to local cultural symbols and identities.
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Pak: Roads blocked in North Waziristan as locals protest over targeted kil
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
North Waziristan [Pakistan], August 5 (ANI): Against an incessant surge in targeted killings across Pakistan, numerous residents blocked roads and observed a strike as part of a 'protest movement' in North Waziristan tribal district on Thursday.
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BALCO observes World Breastfeeding Week by launching week long awareness c
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Balconagar (Chhattisgarh) [India], August 5 (ANI/GPRC): Bharat Aluminium Company Limited (BALCO), India's iconic Aluminium producer and a subsidiary of Vedanta Aluminium, has launched a week long awareness campaign in line with World Breastfeeding Week theme 2022 'Step Up for Breastfeeding:
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UP: Lucknow court rejects anticipatory bail plea of Mukhtar Ansari's son A
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], August 5 (ANI): A local court in Uttar Pradesh on Thursday rejected the anticipatory bail application of Mau Sadar MLA and Mukhtar Ansari's son Abbas Ansari. The court had issued a non-bailable warrant against him in the case registered at the Mahanagar polic
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