Asia

2mn Covid vaccine doses from India reach Dhaka airport

Abhinandan January 21, 2021, 2:54 PM IST

Dhaka: Two million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine made by the Serum Institute of India arrived in Dhaka on Thursday...

Bangladesh to receive 2 mn Covishield doses from India as ‘gift’

Abhinandan January 20, 2021, 2:21 AM IST

Dhaka: Bangladesh Health Minister Zahid Maleque has said that the country would receive two million doses of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine...

Nepal approves Covishield vaccine for emergency use

Abhinandan January 15, 2021, 6:57 PM IST

Kathmandu: Ahead of signing a major Covid vaccine deal with India, probably on Friday, Nepal's Department of Drug Administration (DDA) has...

Will retrieve Nepali territory from India, asserts Oli

Abhinandan January 11, 2021, 1:51 AM IST

Kathmandu: Ahead of crucial Nepal-India Foreign Minister level talks that are likely to focus on seeking long-term solution of the boundary...

Power distribution system breakdown plunges entire Pakistan into darkness

Abhinandan January 10, 2021, 11:32 AM IST

Islamabad: Hundreds of millions of Pakistanis were left without power due to a technical fault in the country's power distribution system,...

Pak anti-terror court sentences 26/11 mastermind Lakhvi to 15-year jail

Abhinandan January 8, 2021, 8:39 PM IST

Lahore: An anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Lahore has sentenced Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi to at least 15 years imprisonment,...

Nepal stops importing all poultry items from India

Abhinandan January 8, 2021, 4:16 PM IST

Kathmandu: Nepal has stopped importing all kinds of poultry items from India after some states in the neighbouring country recently reported...

Amid crisis in Nepal politics, former PM Prachanda to visit India for wife’s treatment

Abhinandan January 4, 2021, 1:26 PM IST

Kathmandu: Chairman of the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP), Pushpa Kamal Dahal aka 'Prachanda', will embark on a visit to India...

LeT’s Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi arrested in Pak over terror financing

Abhinandan January 2, 2021, 3:33 PM IST

Islamabad: In an all out crackdown against the Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) and Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militant groups, Pakistan counter-terrorism authorities have arrested Zaki-ur-Rehman...