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Washington: President Joe Biden has said that it is time to grow the US economy from the bottom and the middle, asserting that America is in a competition with China and other countries to win the 21st century. In his first speech to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday ...

#Pakistan News World leaders and experts say sharing vaccine know-how is the best chance to fight the pandemic. But the industry disagrees. More than 100 Nobel laureates and dozens of prominent figures including former leaders of the UK and France have called on US President Joe Biden to support ...

Ever since it emerged as an independent nation in 1971 following a bloody liberation war, Bangladesh has struggled to lay strong democratic foundations.    Just four years after independence, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, regarded as the "father of the nation," was assassinated after a military coup, plunging the then newly-born nation into ...

When Prime Minister Imran Khan addressed Pakistan last week, he thanked higher powers for sparing his country the damage Covid-19 wreaked on neighbouring India. While the boast was not unfounded, concerns are growing that new waves emerging around the world could yet devastate the rest of South Asia.“God saved ...

Mainstream political leaders, and many ordinary people in Pakistani-administered Kashmir, are supportive of the Pakistani state, which has been accused by India of backing separatist militants. However, voices in Pakistani-administered Kashmir calling for complete independence, as opposed to joining with Pakistan, have been deliberately stifled. The region's constitution forbids ...

Emmanuel Macron has found himself demonised at protests throughout the Islamic world as anger grows at his defence of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed. Tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Bangladesh on Tuesday, branding him a 'Satan-worshipper' and burning him in effigy following smaller marches in ...

With the arrival of October a grim new season descends on the great cities of northern India and eastern Pakistan. Each year, the autumn heralds the arrival of smog. Pollution in cities like Delhi and Lahore is bad throughout the year, but from October to January it spikes to ...

#Pakistan News A year after New Delhi stripped the disputed Kashmir of its autonomy, major political parties announced a grand alliance Thursday to seek a peaceful restoration of the region's status. On Aug. 5, 2019, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government took away the Jammu and Kashmir state's special ...

Venue: Incora County Ground, Derby Dates: 21, 23, 26, 28, 30 SeptemberCoverage: Third game (26 September) live on BBC TV; Ball-by-ball Test Match Special commentary on all games with highlights on BBC TV, live text commentary and in-play clips on BBC Sport website & appSix months ago, I was ...

#Pakistan News Satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, the target of a massacre by gunmen in 2015, reprinted the controversial caricatures that were described as defamatory, racist and Islamophic by Muslims around the world. Supporters of hardline Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan carry placards and shout slogans during a protest against the reprinting of ...