New Delhi/Taipei, In a strong message to Bejing, Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen on the National Day celebrations on Saturday said that Taiwan will play an active role in establishing new regional and international order in the face of Chinese aggression against democracies.

Incidentally, Taiwan received hug

London,  The UK government will pay two thirds of salaries for employees who worked for firms that were forced to close due to the Covid-19 pandemic, according to an extended job support plan announced by Chancellor Rishi Sunak.

Under the scheme announced on Friday, businesses across the UK whose premises are

Peshwar, The Peshawar High Court has struck down the auction of a portion of the ancient Gurdwara Bhai Beba Singh in the city.

On Friday, a bench declared the auction illegal by accepting the petition jointly filed by a member of the Pakistan Sikh Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee, Sahib Singh and five members of

Seoul,  In a letter to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un marking the 75th founding anniversary of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), Chinese President Xi Jinping vowed efforts to further develop relations between Beijing and Pyongyang, state-media reported on Saturday.

"In recent years under the

Islamabad, The Orange Line Metro Train project in Lahore under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), has been completed and was delivered to the Pakistani side, it was announced.

As an early-harvest project of the CPEC, the Orange Line is Pakistan's first-ever mass rapid urban transit train service, and

Bishkek, Kyrgyz President Sooronbai Jeenbekov on Friday said that he was ready to resign once a new Cabinet was approved in the Central Asian country which has been gripped by unrest after the disputed parliamentary election held earlier this week.

"After legitimate executive authorities are approved and we a

Dhaka, A Bangladesh government official has confirmed that the latest figure of some 850,000 Rohingya refugees currently residing in the country was "accurate", and not the the initial calculation released two years ago which was 950,000.

The remarks were made by Mohammad Shamsu Douza, the government'

Ramallah, Saeb Erekat, Secretary General of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), announced that he has tested positive for the novel coronavirus.

"Thank you to those who prayed for me and wished me quick recovery after I was tested positive for Covid-19," Erekat said on Twitter on Friday.

New Delhi, The Supreme Court on Friday held that the NRI quota in private medical colleges is not sacrosanct, but the institutions intending to do away with it must give reasonable notice to the aspirants.

A bench comprising Justices L. Nageswara Rao and S. Ravindra Bhatt said: "It is evident that the NRI quo

Mumbai, Tightening the screws in the alleged fudged TRP data scam, the Mumbai Police have summoned the Chief Financial Officer of Republic TV and two heads of major advertising agencies for questioning on Saturday, officials said here on Friday.

Republic TV CFO Shiva Sundaram and heads of two prominent advertising