Beijing [China], July 28 (ANI): China is attempting to spread its claws and deepening its reach in the West Asia and North Africa (WANA) region by leveraging its technical expertise in several countries from Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Morocco, media reports said.
New Delhi [India], July 28 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) spokesperson Shehzad Poonawala on Thursday quoted media reports to claim that some of the suspended Rajya Sabha MPs who are protesting in the parliament had consumed "tandoori chicken" in front of Mahatama Gandhi's statue.
Tokyo [Japan], July 28 (ANI/Xinhua): Japan confirmed its second case of monkeypox on Thursday, with a man in his 30s testing positive in Tokyo, according to an official.
New Delhi [India], July 28 (ANI): Justice DY Chandrachud, a Supreme Court judge, on Thursday, expressed his displeasure over criticism in the media about judges not taking up cases.
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 28 (ANI): Pakistan reported the highest number of COVID-19 deaths in the last 20 days as eight people died in a single day, according to National Institute of Health, Islamabad (NIH) data.
Washington [US], July 28 (ANI): Facebook and Instagram's parent company Meta reported its first-ever yearly decline in revenue for the second quarter, announcing a 1 per cent drop to USD 28.8 billion.
Mansehra [Pakistan], July 27 (ANI): Landowners who have been denied compensation for the land acquired for Diamer-Basha hydropower project staged a sit-in on the Karakoram Highway post which commuters remained stranded for long hours, media reports said.
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 27 (ANI): Due to the constraints by International Monetary Fund in view of Pakistan's crippled economy, the country's government has once again failed to restore the income tax exemption and allowances for Pakistani diplomats posted abroad, media reports said.
Beijing [China], July 27 (ANI): China continues to remain under the grip of an extreme heatwave and this has in turn threatened crops and people's lives and pushed China's power usage to record-breaking levels, media reports said.
Beijing [China], July 27 (ANI): Warning of China's increasing military engagement in "unsafe and unprofessional behaviour" in the South China Sea, a US official said that such provocations risked a major incident in the region, media reports said.
Kabul [Afghanistan], July 27 (ANI): At least seven children were killed due to cholera outbreak and 667 others were infected with the disease in less than a week in Afghanistan's Kandahar province, media reports citing doctor in the province stated on Wednesday.