Nepal's National Reconstruction Authority (NRA) said that it has completed 83 per cent of the country's post-earthquake reconstruction.

The NRA, established to fast track the reconstruction process, entered the fifth year on Wednesday, reports Xinhua news agency.

The deadly earthquakes on April 25 and May 12

The Lahore High Court (LHC) has permitted the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) to mark the 11th death anniversary of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto by holding a rally at Liaquat Bagh - the place where she was assassinated in 2007.

The permission was granted on Thursday, The Express Tribune reported.

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 Pakistan has received $452.4 million as the second tranche of the $6 billion International Monetary Fund (IMF) loan, taking the foreign exchange reserves of the country's struggling economy up to $18 billion.

"On December 23, SBP received $452.4 million from IMF as second tranche under EFF (extended fund facility) p

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi inaugurated a 3-day National Tribal Dance Festival in Raipur on Friday.

Over 1200 artists from 25 states and union territories will participate in the national event. 

The artists from six countries including Sri Lanka, Uganda, Belarus, Maldives, Thailand and Bangladesh will perform

Kashmir woke up to a freezing Friday as the temperature plummeted to the lowest degrees in this season.

Srinagar recorded the coldest night of the season with temperature dropping down to minus 5.6 degrees. 

The hill resort of Gulmarg was at minus 9.6 degrees while Pahalgam recorded a night temperature of minus

 Hisar city recorded a low of 0.3 degree Celsius on Friday as cold wave conditions prevailed across the plains of Punjab and Haryana in the past 24 hours.

The minimum temperatures were one to six degrees below normal at most places.

Narnaul and Ambala in Haryana recorded lows of three and 5.5 degrees Celsius, r

Indian Air Force (IAF) decommissions Mikoyan-Gurevich 27 (MiG-27), the fighter aircraft that played a stellar role during the Kargil war with Pakistan 20 years ago, on Friday when the last squadron of seven planes roared through the skies for the last time.

The fighter aircraft took to the skies one last time at the Jodhpur airbas

After her controversial speech at Delhi University, a police complaint has been filed against the author Arundhati Roy.

The complaint is lodged in Delhi's Tilak Marg police station by an advocate Rajiv Kumar Ranjan. He has demanded an FIR be registered against her and others under Sections 295A, 504, 153 and even 120B of the I

 In a surprise move, former Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar has been made the new Principal Secretary in the state Information Technology Department by the West Bengal government.

In an order issued late Thursday night, the controversial IPS officer was given his new assignment - a post which is normally the preserve

Former Hollywood couple Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston's rekindled friendship is blossoming and they are enjoying having "each other's back".

The exes, who divorced in 2005 after Pitt had hooked up with actress Angelina Jolie, have met again at Aniston's holiday party at her home in Los Angeles, reports mirro