Kabul/Washington, The US is close to finalizing a decision to withdraw more than 4,000 troops from Afghanistan as per the Washington-Taliban deal, a media report said on Saturday.

Almost a week ago, Gen. Kenneth McKenzie, head of the US Central Command, said Washington has reduced its troop level to 8,600 in Afgha

Kabul, Two Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) staffers were killed on Saturday in a bomb blast in Kabul, police said.

The blast took place at around 7.45 am in the capital city's Botkhak when the two staffers were on the way to work.

"The blast caused by a magnetic Impr

Beijing,  Beijing on Saturday issued fresh guidelines on COVID-19 containment, calling on its residents to continue to wear masks, maintain social distancing and wash hands frequently in the wake of a fresh outbreak in the Chinese capital's wholesale food market.

Masks have been made compulsory in hospita

Washington, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said that Washington was imposing visa restrictions on Chinese Communist Party officials believed to be responsible for the national security law for Hong Kong, the media reported.

On Friday, Pompeo said the sanctions targeted "current and former" party o

Bangkok, Thailand's low-cost carrier NokScoot has announced that it was shutting down due to mounting economic losses in recent years that became unsustainable after a complete halt in operations during the COVID-19 pandemic.

NokScoot was established as a joint venture between Singaporean airline Scoot and Tha

London,  Blanket restrictions on non-essential overseas travel will be relaxed in the UK from July 6, Ministers have said.

Holidaymakers are expected to be allowed to travel to certain European countries without having to spend 14 days in quarantine when they return, the BBC reported.

They are

Hong Kong, Police in Hong Kong announced on Saturday that the annual pro-democracy rally which takes place every year on July 1 has been banned for the first time in 17 years.

The protest rally has been taking place every year since the handover of Hong Kong in 1997, reports Efe news.

Hong Kong

Srinagar, In the first cyber attack in J&K, hackers on Friday wiped out essential data from the servers of the state Power Development Department, sending its engineers into a tizzy.

Chief Engineer Aijaz Ahmad said the department has pressed men and machinery into service to restore the data and systems.

Srinagar, The Jammu & Kashmir Police have identified the terrorist responsible for carrying out the attack at Bijbehara in south Kashmir's Anantnag district on Friday in which a five-year-old boy and a CRPF jawan were killed.

According to a tweet put out by the J&K Police, the terrorist Zahid Daas belo

New Delhi/Geneva,  The United Nations experts have called on the international community to take collective and decisive action to ensure that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regime ends violations of its international obligations and human rights of its citizens.

In a statement issued by the UN Human Right