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Modi meets Saudi Energy Minister, discus | Riyadh, Oct 29 (TIWN) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday held discussions with Saudi Energy Minister Abdulaziz bin Salman Al Saud on enhancing energy ties. | 29-Oct-2019 |
Pak Hindu student death: Male DNA found | Larkana, Oct 29 (TIWN) In a shocking revelation in the mysterious death of Nimrita Chandani, the forensic team has collected the DNA sample of a male suspect from the Hindu medical student's body and clothes. | 29-Oct-2019 |
UN human rights body asks India to 'unlo | Geneva, Oct 29 (TIWN) The UN Human Rights Commission on Tuesday said it is "extremely concerned" that people in Jammu and Kashmir are continued to be "deprived of a wide range of human rights" and urged the Indian government to "unlock the situation and fully restore the rights that are currently being denied". | 29-Oct-2019 |
1st phase of China trade pact may be sig | Washington, Oct 29 (TIWN) US President Donald Trump has said that the first phase of a trade pact with China could be signed "ahead of schedule", adding that the aim was to meet his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping and sign the accord at the APEC summit in Chile next month. | 29-Oct-2019 |
US House to vote on Trump impeachment in | Washington, Oct 29 (TIWN) US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has said that the House of Representatives would vote this week on a resolution to formally establish the impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump, a move that will take the investigation held behind closed doors to a public phase. | 29-Oct-2019 |
IMF team in Pak to review performance | Islamabad, Oct 28 (TIWN) An International Monetary Fund (IMF) team has arrived in Islamabad to conduct the first quarterly review of Pakistans performance under its $6 billion Extended Fund Facility (EFF) finalised in May this year. | 28-Oct-2019 |
Trump 'booed' at baseball game | Washington, Oct 28 (TIWN) US President Donald Trump was greeted with boos and loud chants of "lock him up", referring to an ongoing impeachment inquiry against him, when he and First Lady Melania Trump made an appearance at a baseball game, it was reported on Monday. | 28-Oct-2019 |
Seoul proposes talks with Pyongyang over | Seoul, Oct 28 (TIWN) South Korea on Monday proposed talks with North Korea to discuss the Mt. Kumgang resort that Pyongyang wants to demolish. | 28-Oct-2019 |
China to build 58 schools in Pak tribal | Peshawar, Oct 28 (TIWN) The Chinese government has approved construction of 58 schools in erstwhile Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), along with 30 hospitals in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Chinese Ambassador Yao Jing has said. | 28-Oct-2019 |
US Congress seeks info on Kashmir from I | Washington, Oct 28 (TIWN) The US Congress has told the Indian envoy Harsh Vardhan Shringla that despite his "update" on the situation in Kashmir, many people have painted "a much different picture", and asked him to provide answers to several queries, including how many have been detained under the Public Safety Act, on reports of the use of rubber bullets, and whether journalists and members of the US Congress will be allowed free access to the region. | 28-Oct-2019 |
US cancels all flights to Cuba except Ha | Washington, Oct 27 (TIWN) The US State Department has said that the country would ban American airlines from flying to all Cuban cities except capital Havana starting from December. | 27-Oct-2019 |
Tulsi Gabbard won't seek re-election to | New York, Oct 27 (TIWN) Tulsi Gabbard, the first Hindu elected to the US Congress, has announced she will not be running for re-election next year. | 27-Oct-2019 |
Diwali preparations in full swing in UAE | Dubai, Oct 27 (TIWN) Diwali preparations were in full swing across the United Arab Emirates (UAE), as Indian expats were readying to celebrate the 'festival of lights' on Sunday. | 27-Oct-2019 |
US attack threat only a bluff: Iran | Tehran, Oct 26 (TIWN) US President Donald Trump's recent threat of a possible military attack on Iran is nothing but a "bluff", Iranian Defence Minister Amir Hatami said on Thursday. | 26-Oct-2019 |
India, Pak sign Kartarpur pact, service | Dera Baba Nanak (Punjab), Oct 25 (TIWN) India and Pakistan on Thursday signed an agreement to operationalise the Kartarpur Corridor even as the ticklish issue of a $20 service fee imposed by Islamabad remained unresolved. | 25-Oct-2019 |
Imran must quit, pave way for fresh poll | Islamabad, Oct 25 (TIWN) The Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman said he would neither stage any sit-in nor lock down cities to oust the Imran Khan government, the Pakistani media reported. | 25-Oct-2019 |
Vikram lander not found in NASA's latest | New Delhi, Oct 24 (TIWN) US Space agency NASA has once again failed to trace Chandrayaan 2's Vikram lander on the lunar surface. | 24-Oct-2019 |
Trump accused of flashing 'middle finger | Washington, Oct 24 (TIWN) US President Donald Trump has found himself at the centre of a fierce controversy after he was seen scratching his forehead with his middle finger when a female NASA astronaut corrected him during a video call to the International Space Station (ISS). | 24-Oct-2019 |
US urged to save Hindu principal charged | Washington, Oct 23 (TIWN) As Pakistan's blasphemy laws guarantee the death penalty or life imprisonment, it has become common for radical Islamic groups in that country to slap blasphemy charges on locals who are unwilling to convert, a Sindhi-American human rights activist has told a US Congressional panel, and cited a case of the anti-Hindu violence that broke out in Sindh's Ghotki last month over a false blasphemy charge on a Hindu school principal. | 23-Oct-2019 |
IndiGo scouts for Central Asian destinat | Ho Chi Minh City, Oct 22 (TIWN) After consolidating its presence in West and Southeast Asia, India's largest passenger carrier IndiGo plans to add more destinations in China next year followed by a likely entry into the Central Asian market. | 22-Oct-2019 |
Putin, Erdogan discuss Syria ahead of ce | Moscow, Oct 22 (TIWN) Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday began negotiations on the situation in northeastern Syria hours before the expiry of a ceasefire between Turkey's armed forces and Kurdish militias. | 22-Oct-2019 |
Turkish airstrikes kill two PKK official | Baghdad, Oct 22 (TIWN) Turkish airstrikes on Tuesday killed two senior officials of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) on Azmar mountain in Slemani governorate region. | 22-Oct-2019 |
Pakistan takes foreign delegates to PoK | Islamabad, Oct 22 (TIWN) A group of foreign delegates was taken to areas along the Line of Control (LoC) in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) to see for themselves if the Indian Army had destroyed four terror camps, Pakistani media reports said on Tuesday. | 22-Oct-2019 |
Navy capable of thwarting threat from en | New Delhi, Oct 22 (TIWN) The Indian Navy is capable of thwarting any threat from enemy countries and has taken various steps to ensure that 26/11 type terror incidents never happen again, Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said on Tuesday. | 22-Oct-2019 |
6th World Internet Conference opens in C | Wuzhen (China), Oct 21 (TIWN) The sixth World Internet Conference opened on Sunday in the river town of Wuzhen in east China's Zhejiang province. | 21-Oct-2019 |
US troops leaving Syria will be assigned | Washington, Oct 21 (TIWN) US Secretary of Defence Mark Esper has said that the American troops ordered to leave northeastern Syria would now move to western Iraq and conduct operations against the Islamic State (IS) terror group. | 21-Oct-2019 |
Qantas completes testing longest passeng | Sydney, Oct 21 (TIWN) Australian flag carrier Qantas on Sunday said that it has completed testing a New York to Sydney flight, deemed as the world's longest with nearly 20 hours in the air without layovers, as part of a research on how the journey could affect the people onboard. | 21-Oct-2019 |
Pak claims 4 killed in Indian shelling | Islamabad, Oct 21 (TIWN) The Pakistan military on Sunday claimed that "unprovoked" Indian shelling during a ceasefire violation on the Line Of Control has killed four people, including a soldier. | 21-Oct-2019 |
Pak govt may call in Army for 'Azadi Mar | Islamabad, Oct 21 (TIWN) The Pakistan government has started devising a strategy to deploy armed forces in Islamabad during the October 31 'Azadi March' which will call "to topple the ruling PTI government". | 21-Oct-2019 |
Trump converts impeachment inquiry into | New York, Oct 19 (TIWN) US President Donald Trump has turned the ongoing impeachment inquiry over his dealings with Ukraine into his signature "all-base, all-the-time" political rallying cry, calling opposition Democrats "crazy" and unpatriotic; he is framing the US pullout from Syria as "a great day for civilisation" and is stoking cultural stereotypes framing the Middle East as a violent sandbox where its "natural" for them to "play" on blood stained streets. | 19-Oct-2019 |
MPs set for 'knife-edge' vote on Johnson | London, Oct 19 (TIWN) For the first time in 37 years, the UK Parliament will on Saturday to participate in what is being deemed as a "knife-edge" vote on Prime Minister's Boris Johnson's latest Brexit deal, a last attempt before the October 31 deadline to leave the European Union (EU). | 19-Oct-2019 |
Trump, Pelosi face off in 'meltdown' pho | Washington, Oct 19 (TIWN) Signifying the deep political divisions in Washington, a new photo shows US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi confronting President Donald Trump at a reportedly explosive White House meeting. | 19-Oct-2019 |
FATF keeps Pak in grey list, hands 4-mon | Paris/Islamabad, Oct 19 (TIWN) The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) on Friday formally announced that Pakistan will remain on its grey list for the next four months, handing it a final lifeline. | 19-Oct-2019 |
Over 300 Indians deported for illegally | New Delhi, Oct 18 (TIWN) More than 300 Indians, who were deported by Mexican immigration authorities for illegally entering the country, reached Delhi airport on Friday on a specially arranged non-scheduled flight. | 18-Oct-2019 |
What is Pakistan's chemistry with Congre | Gohana/Hisar (Haryana), Oct 18 (TIWN) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said no one - neither jawans"nor farmers or sportspersons - were safe under the Congress' "misrule", while terming abrogation of Article 370 his real tribute to brave soldiers. | 18-Oct-2019 |
US tariffs on $7.5 billion worth EU good | Washington, Oct 18 (TIWN) The US tariffs on products from the European Union (EU) worth $7.5 billion took effect on Friday midnight. | 18-Oct-2019 |
Abhijit, Amartya's faces to figure on Pr | Kolkata, Oct 17 (TIWN) In a rare honour, the Presidency University on Thursday decided to emboss facsimiles of the faces of Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee and Amartya Sen - the two Nobel laureates in its list of distinguished alumni - on its wall. | 17-Oct-2019 |
US pull back from Syria sows chaos far a | New York, Oct 17 (TIWN) US President Donald Trump's sudden decision to withdraw troops from Syria has sown a whirlwind of chaos cutting a swath across the Middle East, Europe, NATO and at home in the US. | 17-Oct-2019 |
UK's royal couple visits mountain-top gl | Islamabad, Oct 17 (TIWN) Britain's royal couple Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and his wife Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge on Wednesday visited a melting mountain-top glacier in northern Pakistan to see the impact of climate change. | 17-Oct-2019 |
Will retaliate to US bill on Hong Kong, | Beijing, Oct 16 (TIWN) China has warned the US that it will retaliate strongly to the US Lower House passing the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act, which seeks to subject the former British colony's special status to Washington's scrutiny. | 16-Oct-2019 |
Will retaliate to US bill on Hong Kong, | Beijing, Oct 17 (TIWN) China has warned the US that it will retaliate strongly to the US Lower House passing the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act, which seeks to subject the former British colony's special status to Washington's scrutiny. | 17-Oct-2019 |
Rajnath pushes for indigenisation of def | New Delhi, Oct 17 (TIWN) Pushing for indigenisation, Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday urged scientists in the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) to establish a system in India where all defence equipment can be manufactured in the country. | 17-Oct-2019 |
Trade deal with US to benefit global eco | Beijing, Oct 16 (TIWN) The trade deal between China and the US will not only benefit the two countries but also the global economy, China's Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Geng Shuang said on Tuesday. | 16-Oct-2019 |
FATF expresses satisfaction at steps tak | Paris, Oct 16 (TIWN) The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has expressed satisfaction at the measures taken by Pakistan and its progress in various areas. | 16-Oct-2019 |
US-China trade deal to benefit global ec | Beijing, Oct 15 (TIWN) The trade deal between China and the US will not only benefit the two countries but also the global economy, China's Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Geng Shuang said on Tuesday. | 15-Oct-2019 |
Kate dons traditional kurta on 1st day o | Islamabad, Oct 15 (TIWN) Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge, donned a traditional kurta on Tuesday as she and Prince William met children at an Islamabad school during the first day of their Pakistan visit. | 15-Oct-2019 |
Brexit talks continue in Brussels ahead | Brussels, Oct 14 (TIWN) Brexit talks were set to continue between the negotiating teams of the UK and European Union (EU) on Monday here aimed at reaching a deal before a crunch summit later this week. | 14-Oct-2019 |
5.8-magnitude quake jolts Pakistan | Islamabad, Oct 14 (TIWN) An earthquake measuring 5.8 on the Richter scale jolted Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Monday, although there were no reports of casualties or injuries. | 14-Oct-2019 |
Syrian army enters Kurdish-held city, ai | Damascus, Oct 14 (TIWN) The Syrian army on Monday entered the city of Tabqa in the northern countryside of Raqqa province, as part of its move to enter Kurdish-held areas to counter the ongoing Turkish assault in the region. | 14-Oct-2019 |
18 killed as super typhoon Hagibis lashe | Tokyo, Oct 14 (TIWN) At least 18 people have been killed and 13 were reported missing on Sunday after the powerful super typhoon Hagibis ravaged central and eastern Japan, with torrential rains causing a number of rivers to overflow into residential areas of the country. | 14-Oct-2019 |