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Russian President Vladimir Putin overnight ordered the defence minister and the chief of the military to put nuclear deterrent forces in a “special regime of combat duty”, possibly referring to readying tactical nuclear forces.This could of course be a bluff, but Putin has demonstrated on numerous occasions he has ...

The Delhi Commission for Women on Tuesday took suo motu cognisance of reports of rape threats to the nine-month-old daughter of Indian men’s cricket team captain Virat Kohli and actor Anushka Sharma.Swati Maliwal, the chairperson of the commission, has issued a notice to the Delhi Police. Maliwal urged the ...

Qasim Shah, a farmer in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir’s Gilgit-Baltistan region, has no regrets about giving up crop farming.“Trout farming is more lucrative than traditional crops,” said Shah, who is also the vice president of the Private Fish Farms Association in the Ghizer district. “Crops and fruit have become too ...

Crisis is upon Sri Lanka. Last week, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa decreed a state of emergency over food supplies, the dollar was being sold for over 230 Sri Lankan rupees on the black market (down from 216.55 Sri Lankan rupees on August 19), Sri Lanka was downgraded to CCC- by ...

In the space of three months in early 2021, two glacial lakes in Uttarakhand burst their banks, with tragic consequences for mountain communities and ecosystems. In February, a glacier lake breach caused flash floods that surged through the Rishiganga River. At least 61 people were killed and around 143 ...

Afghanistan is heading towards a full-blown civil war, following the United States troop pullout and, with Islamabad fearing the inevitable fallout of that slide into chaos, Pakistan’s military and intelligence chiefs recently briefed a parliamentary committee, notably including the country’s opposition members.In the words of Pakistan’s Interior Minister Shaikh ...

Six years after Pakistan’s last attempt to try and embrace estranged Baloch leaders failed, or was foiled, the country’s Prime Minister Imran Khan has announced a fresh move aimed at Baloch reconciliation but critical questions will need to be answered before such an initiative can get off the ground.A ...

The Communist Party of China marks its 100th anniversary on July 1. Among the thousands of celebratory events taking place is a ballet by the National Ballet of China depicting two famous Chinese myths. In one, a 90-year-old “foolish man” named Yugong achieves the impossible mission of removing two ...

A Pakistani-Canadian family out on a stroll on Sunday evening was murdered in a horrific act of Islamophobic violence in London, Ontario. A nine-year-old boy, hospitalised with serious injuries, is the only survivor of a terror attack that killed his sister, father, mother and grandmother.How will he make sense ...

The season for sowing paddy is about to kick off in Sindh. But the province in southeast Pakistan has banned rice cultivation in 10 districts on the left bank of the Indus river.This ban is announced every year at the end of April or early May to limit the ...