- Tuesday, April 16, 2024
EMBATTLED Indian football team head coach Igor Stimac said his side can still progress to the third round of the FIFA world cup qualifiers, putting up a brave front despite an embarrassing defeat to Afghanistan last Tuesday (26). Ranked 158 in the world, Afghanistan shocked 117-ranked India 2-1 as the…
A young woman went viral for wearing a dress with Arabic script printed but for the wrong reasons. An angry mob charged at the woman who was spotted in Ichra Bazaar of Lahore city in Pakistan. A prompt action was taken by the police to save the woman as the…
AHEAD of elections next week, Pakistan's caretaker administration is making binding plans for a new government to sell loss-making Pakistan International Airlines, according to the minister in charge of the process and other officials. In the past, elected governments have shied away from undertaking unpopular reforms, including the sale of…
INDIA ended their Asian Cup campaign pointless and goal-less and head coach Igor Stimac admitted his team needs players with confidence in front of opposition goal, a significant statement considering the likely retirement of talismanic striker Sunil Chhetri in the next few years. It’s no secret the Indian team lacks…
INDIA's Akasa Air said on Thursday (18) it has ordered 150 Boeing MAX narrowbody planes, showcasing its confidence in the troubled planemaker as the budget carrier seeks to fly to more destinations at home and abroad. This is the first major order announcement for Boeing's MAX jetliner programme since a…
Though several nations from Asia, Africa, and South America, alongside India, Russia, and China, congratulated Bangladesh’s Sheikh Hasina on her historic fourth term as prime minister, the United Nations, the US, and the UK voiced their reservations, terming the polls as "not free or fair." Hasina's Awami League (AL) won…
BY HIS own admission, Indian football talisman Sunil Chhetri is in the “bonus period” of his illustrious career but he has not set any retirement date. One thing is, however, certain that the 39-year-old Chhetri will not be playing in 2026 when the football World Cup happens. “I’m just happy…
PASSENGERS and crew members of a British Airways flight who were taken hostage in Kuwait in 1990 are intending to take legal action against the British government and the airline, a law firm said Tuesday (12). Passengers on BA flight 149 were taken off the Kuala Lumpur-bound plane when it…
THOUSANDS of people rallied in streets across Pakistan on Friday (7) to condemn a Koran burning in Sweden that has outraged Muslims around the world. Last week, Salwan Momika, an Iraqi living in Sweden, stomped on the Muslim holy book and set several pages alight outside a Stockholm mosque. His…
India emerged as the leading supplier of refined fuel to Europe, in April 2023, surpassing other countries in the market. Vortexa, an energy cargo tracking system, reported that India exported approximately 406 thousand barrels per day (kbd) of refined fuel to European nations during that month, The New Indian Express…
Newly published novel 'An Unlasting Home' is a powerful story about freedom of speech, the political development of the Arab region and female Middle Eastern identity. The thought-provoking debut from Mai Al- Nakib, inspired by Kuwait’s parliament passing a (quickly overturned) law that made blasphemy a capital crime in 2013,…
Pakistan's foreign minister, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, arrived in India Thursday (4) to take part in an international conference, the first official visit by a senior Pakistani official to India since 2016. Bhutto Zardari is in Goa for a Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) meeting of foreign ministers, along with counterparts from…
A US-bound oil tanker seized by Iranian commandos had 24 Indian crew on board, its operator said on Friday (28), adding it was working to secure their release. Footage aired by Iranian state television showed navy commandos dropping down from a helicopter onto the deck of the Advantage Sweet which…
Tensions rose in the aviation industry over plans to transform Air India into a global airline with hundreds of new jets, as foreign carriers called for greater access to India's rapidly growing economy. The sale of India's flag carrier to Tata conglomerate has led to increasing demands for the government…
RUSSIA is working on easing visa procedures for six countries, including India, Syria and Indonesia, the state TASS news agency cited deputy foreign minister Evgeny Ivanov as saying on Sunday (5). "In addition to India (procedures simplification) ... is being worked out with Angola, Vietnam, Indonesia, Syria and Philippines," Ivanov…
Kuwait, a Middle Eastern nation with a rich cultural background, has a lot to offer travellers looking for a unique kind of vacation. The country offers something for everyone, from its desert terrain and warm summers to its traditional food and cultural attractions. Go to Kuwait on a Jazeera Flight and…
A BRITISH Pakistani man has won an unfair dismissal case against a wealthy Kuwaiti businesswoman who linked her perception of dishonesty to his race.Millionaire Fawzia Al-Hassawi questioned her manager Abdul Malik’s competence as leaks found in her swimming pool room in her Oxfordshire mansion during the pandemic were not remedied.…
Neal Mohan, a longtime Indian American YouTube executive, will be the new CEO of the Google-owned video sharing platform. Mohan, a Stanford graduate and a senior advertising and product executive who joined Google in 2008, will join the elite club of global tech chiefs of Indian origin such as Google…
FROM where Sir Mike Wigston sits, he can see the most famous address in Britain – 10, Downing Street. “It’s good I can see what’s going on,” he says with something of a wry smile, showing Eastern Eye his impressive office. Mike Wigston is how he was born, but today…
Protests in Stockholm on Saturday against Turkey and Sweden's bid to join NATO, including the burning of a copy of the Koran, sharply heightened tensions with Turkey at a time when the Nordic country needs Ankara's backing to gain entry to the military alliance."We condemn in the strongest possible terms…
Arch-rivals India and Pakistan are in the same group for the Asia Cup 2023, the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) president Jay Shah confirmed on Thursday. Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) secretary and Asian Cricket Council (ACC) president Jay Shah on Thursday announced the cricket calendar of the…
As the FIFA World Cup has started, Nepali workers who were involved in construction work in Qatar have recalled their experience of working in the Middle Eastern nation. Hari Bahadur Shrestha watched the football match between Costa Rica and Japan which was being held in Qatar, a country where he…
Former US Presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard on Tuesday (11) announced her exit from the Democratic Party, blaming the party for racializing every issue in the nation and denouncing it as the "elitist cabal of warmongers." Gabbard made the announcement in an approximately 30-minute video posted on her social media account,…
UK police lifted the lid Wednesday on a years-long probe into the notorious Islamic State (IS) kidnap-and-murder cell dubbed the "Beatles" by their captives. Counter-terrorism officers said the hostages' recollections helped "zero in" on three of the British captors. The IS cell members, who tried to keep their identities hidden,…
Saudi Arabia is an Arab country situated in western Asia, and its area extends from the Red Sea in the west to the Arabian Gulf in the east. The countries bordering it in the north are Kuwait, Iraq, and Jordan, while in the south; the countries bordering it are Yemen…
The upcoming animated Hollywood flick Lightyear has become the latest Disney movie to be banned in various Middle East countries, including Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. The news has been confirmed by a leading entertainment portal with sources stating that the decision is linked to the inclusion of…
Kuwait will be deporting expats who took part in the Fahaheel demonstration after Friday prayers in support of Prophet Muhammad despite the instructions of the Kuwaiti government. The sources confirmed on Sunday that they will be deported from Kuwait as they violated the laws and regulations of the country which…
THE producer of the movie The Lady Of Heaven has blasted Muslim protesters and accused them of 'poisonous rhetoric, bullying tactics and propaganda', according to a report. Executive producer Malik Shilbak asked his critics to 'take their heads out of the clouds' in a heated discussion with Roshan Salih, editor…
Central agencies are "seriously" looking into the threat letter sent by terror outfit Al-Qaeda regarding suicide attacks in Delhi, Mumbai, Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat to "fight for the honour of the Prophet", said top agency sources.Alerts have been issued across Delhi, Mumbai, Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat through law enforcement agencies…
Union Minister Piyush Goyal on Tuesday said the controversial remarks on Prophet Mohammad made by ousted BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma, has not made any impact on the ruling NDA at the Centre as she was not a government functionary and asserted good relations will continue with the Gulf countries that…
THE All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) president Asaduddin Owaisi alleged that the ouster of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders Nupur Sharma and Naveen Kumar Jindal from the party's primary membership was done to please the leaders of foreign countries. Speaking at the press conference in Hyderabad in Telangana, Owaisi said,…
The historical action drama Samrat Prithviraj, produced by Yash Raj Films, hit theatres on June 3, 2022. The film is based on the life of Prithviraj Chauhan who fought bravely against the invader Muhammad Ghori. The historical war drama stars Akshay Kumar, Sanjay Dutt, Sonu Sood, and debutante Manushi Chhillar.…
Pakistan said on Monday that it has summoned the Indian charge d'affaires to convey its categorical rejection and condemnation of the controversial remarks by two BJP leaders against Prophet Mohammed.The Indian diplomat was told that these remarks are totally unacceptable and have not only deeply hurt the sentiments of the…
The much-anticipated Bollywood film Samrat Prithviraj, which opens in cinemas on June 3, has been banned in Kuwait, Oman, and Qatar. The high-profile historical war drama stars superstar Akshay Kumar in the lead role. Miss World 2017 Manushi Chhillar makes her silver screen debut with the film. Directed by Chandra…
IT HAS been called illegal, immoral, and unworkable. So what does the UK government’s Memorandum of Agreement with Rwanda actually say, what are its stated objectives and what is the politics behind it? The agreement is about “the prevention and combating of illegally facilitated and unlawful cross-border migration by establishing…
UK-based historians have uncovered records of 320,000 troops from the Punjab who fought in the first world war, which was left unread in a basement for 97 years, The Guardian reported. These will offer new insight into the contribution of Indian soldiers to the allied war effort, the report added.…
When Americans honor the nearly 3,000 killed in the September 11, 2001 Al-Qaeda attacks on the 20th anniversary on Saturday, a grim shadow will lurk in the background, that of attacks mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who has yet to be tried and convicted for the heinous crime. Mohammed, who boasted…
THE trial of five men accused of participating in the September 11, 2001 Al-Qaeda plot to attack the United States has moved extremely slowly before the military commissions in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba since the original charges were announced in February 2008. The case was withdrawn, and then refiled, and the…
KUWAIT will resume commercial flights with Bangladesh and India, among other countries, while adhering to the Covid-19 measures set by a ministerial committee, according to a cabinet statement released on Wednesday (18). The decision also includes resuming flights with Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Egypt. Kuwait on April 24 had…
As the health worker swabbed the skin on his arm with an alcohol wipe and prepared the syringe, Kartik Biswas felt an overwhelming sense of relief. He was finally about to receive his first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, as part of a drive by the southern Indian state of…
US state department on Friday (23) said that Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to India next week. It will be Blinken's first visit to the world's largest democracy and an important US ally in Asia. Blinken will also visit Kuwait and meet senior officials there at the end of…
TO reduce global oil prices and ease the pressure on economies, oil producing countries have agreed to increase their production. The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and partners such as Russia will augment oil supply by two million barrels per day (bpd) from August following a steep rise…
BRITISH online fashion retailer Boohoo has entered a partnership with Kuwait-based Alshaya Group to build its Debenhams brand in the Middle East region. Boohoo bought the Debenhams brand out of administration for £55 million in January. The fashion chain said Alshaya, a franchise operator which runs Debenhams stores in shopping…
Searing, unrelenting heat scorches large swathes of the Earth, killing millions who have no means to escape. Shade is useless, and shallow bodies of water are warmer than the blood coursing through people's veins. This is a scene from a new sci-fi novel, but the suffocating horror it describes may…
PEOPLE have started streaming back to Dhaka from other parts of Bangladesh after Eid ul-Fitr celebrations, despite the government extending the nationwide lockdown by a week to check the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. In the absence of mass transport because of travel restrictions, many people rented private vehicles or…
THREE Indian Navy warships brought oxygen and medical supplies to India on Monday (10). Ins Airavat, Ins Kolkata, and Ins Trikand reached Indian with consignments of oxygen and other medical equipment. 80 tonnes of liquid oxygen, 20 cryogenic oxygen tanks, 3,150 cylinders, and a large amount of other medical supplies…
KUWAIT HAS imposed indefinite travel restrictions from more South Asian countries as the region is witnessing a rapid surge in the coronavirus pandemic. In its fresh announcement, the Gulf nation said it would suspend all flights from Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal and bar the entry of travellers…
By Amit Roy INDIAN soldiers who gave their lives for Britain in the First World War were often buried in unmarked mass graves in Mesopotamia and in Africa, a report published last week by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission has revealed. An inquiry was set up in December 2019…
It’s fair to say that 2020 was a disaster both for families and the wider economy in Asia. However, the hope is that 2021 will be much better, and already we are seeing signs that conditions are improving for individuals and businesses alike. Big research companies such as PwC are…
World leaders said they were looking forward to working with Joe Biden, the Democrat sworn in as US president on Wednesday (20) after four turbulent years under Donald Trump. - Britain - Prime minister Boris Johnson, who has faced criticism over his close relationship with Trump, said he was looking…
Around 50 countries around the world have already started vaccinating their people against Covid-19, barely a year after the first alert by China signalled the start of the epidemic. A snapshot: - China leads the way - China, where the pandemic first emerged, was also the first to start vaccinations…
Tens of thousands of protesters marched through the Bangladesh capital on Tuesday in the biggest anti-France rally since president Emmanuel Macron defended cartoons depicting the prophet Mohammed. Muslims across the world have reacted furiously to Macron's robust defence of the right to mock religion following the murder of a French…
REMITTANCES to Pakistan remained above $2 billion for a fourth consecutive month in September, the country's central bank said on Monday(12). Money sent by Pakistani workers employed abroad increased to $2.3bn in September, a 31.2 per cent rise year-on-year and up 9 per cent compared to the previous month, Remittances…
SRI LANKA on Thursday(8) indicted the Greek skipper of a fire-damaged supertanker for causing an oil spill and failing to report the environmental damage to the island's waters. The Panamanian-registered New Diamond, travelling from Kuwait to India with 270,000 tonnes of crude oil, was passing by Sri Lanka's east coast…
SRI LANKA has demanded the Panamanian-registered oil tanker stricken off its coast to pay $2 million fire-fighting bill. Officials have said that they will not allow the ship to leave its waters until the bill is paid. The New Diamond, carrying 270,000 tonnes of crude, was en-route from Kuwait to…
SRI LANKA to get $1.84 million for its efforts to douse fire on the crude oil ship early this month. The owners of the New Diamond supertanker, which caught fire with a cargo of two million barrels of oil aboard, will pay the amount to Sri Lanka for its help…
THE company behind a homegrown short-video sharing platform in India, rival to TikTok, said its social app crossed 30 million downloads in just three months. Chingari, which allows people to record and share short video clips, in a statement said it has also added augmented reality (AR) filters on its…
BRITISH AIRWAYS on Thursday (10) announced its flight services to Hyderabad from London Heathrow, starting September 12. As of now, the carrier has only been operating outbound flights from Hyderabad, the capital city of Telangana, under the bilateral air bubble pact between India and the UK. The airline will operate…
SRI LANKA will take legal action against the owner of the oil supertanker that caught fire on Thursday (3) as there is a large leakage of bunker oil from the stricken vessel, an official at the marine environment protection authority said. "We are deciding whether to claim criminal liability or…
SRI LANKA has "better control" over a fresh fire on a loaded supertanker off the island nation and is looking for any signs of potential oil leaks from the ship. A fire first broke out last Thursday (3) in the engine room of the very large crude carrier New Diamond…
A massive fire on a stricken oil tanker off Sri Lanka's coast has been extinguished, the island nation's navy said, as international salvage experts began to assess the damage over fears of an environmental disaster if there is a leak. The Panamanian-registered New Diamond, carrying over 270,000 tonnes of crude…
SRI LANKA began towing a fully loaded supertanker on fire off its east coast after it began drifting towards land, a spokesman for the navy of the Indian Ocean nation said on Friday (4). The fire was still raging on the New Diamond tanker carrying about 2 million barrels of…
Russian and Indian warships on Thursday joined the battle to put out a fire on a massive oil tanker off Sri Lanka's eastern coast, the island nation's navy said. The New Diamond, with a cargo of 270,000 tonnes of crude and 1,700 tonnes of diesel, issued a distress call earlier…
A very large crude carrier (VLCC) chartered by Indian Oil Corp (IOC), which was carrying the equivalent of about 2 million barrels of oil, is on fire off the east coast of Sri Lanka, an official at IOC said on Thursday (3). The cause of the fire is unclear. Fellow…
India made significant efforts towards the elimination of human trafficking in 2019, but did not fully meet the minimum standards, according to a US report. As such India remained on Tier 2 of the Congressional-mandated 2020 Trafficking in Persons report of the state department. Pakistan has been downgraded to the…
SRI LANKA will reimpose selective lockdown restrictions from Sunday (31) to restrict large gatherings after recording its biggest daily surge in coronavirus infections most found in citizens repatriated last week from Kuwait. The island nation on Tuesday (26) lifted a shutdown on the capital and a neighbouring district, two weeks after…
THE Indian government has finalised plans to operate 64 flights from May 7 to 13 to bring home nearly 15,000 nationals stranded abroad due to the pandemic. These special flights would be operated by Air India and its subsidiary Air India Express to repatriate Indians from 12 countries -- the…
A TOP global Islamic body has issued a fatwa (religious edict) on the request of Pakistan President Dr Arif Alvi, empowering the head of the state to suspend Friday prayers in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak. The fatwa issued by the Grand Imam Shaikh of Egypt's Jamia Al Azhar,…
US congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard dropped out of the Democratic presidential nomination race on Thursday (19) and immediately endorsed rival Joe Biden as flag bearer heading into the November election against president Donald Trump. "Today, I'm suspending my presidential campaign and offering my full support to vice president Joe Biden in…
INDIA on Wednesday (18) said that a total of 276 Indians are infected with coronavirus abroad. This includes 255 in Iran, 12 in UAE, 5 in Italy, and 1 each in Hong Kong, Kuwait, Rwanda, and Sri Lanka, external affairs ministry said. Those who have tested positive for coronavirus are not…
INDIA’S national carrier Air India is scheduled to suspend its all flight services to the UK and Europe from Wednesday (18) in a bid to contain the spread of coronavirus. Air India operates 30 weekly flights from eight Indian cities. Other airlines in the south Asian country are also expected to follow…
India will close the iconic Taj Mahal to visitors from Tuesday (17) as part of measures to try and combat the coronavirus pandemic, the tourism ministry said on Monday. Most schools and entertainment facilities, including cinemas, have already been closed across India, the world's second-most populous country with 1.3 billion…
THE total number of positive COVID-19 cases in India jumped to 114 as on Monday (16), a health ministry official said. New cases were reported from Odisha, Jammu&Kashmir, Ladakh and Kerala. 4 new cases #COVID19 – 1 each from #Odisha, #Jammu&Kashmir, #Ladakh and #Kerala have been confirmed since the last…
By Amit Roy DIP SINGH WHEELER, whose late husband Sir Charles Wheeler was the distinguished BBC correspondent in Delhi, has died at her home in Sussex, aged 88. I am told by my friend Rahul Singh, who is the son of the author and journalist Khushwant Singh, that when Dip…
Saudi Arabia reopened on Saturday (7) the area around the sacred Kaaba in Mecca's Grand Mosque, Islam's holiest site, reversing one of a series of measures introduced to combat the coronavirus outbreak. Saudi authorities this week suspended the year-round umrah pilgrimage, during which worshippers circle the Kaaba seven times, and…
HINDU-American Tulsi Gabbard has stirred a social media storm when she said that "Hinduphobia is very real" in the US. The US Congresswoman from Hawaii and a presidential aspirant for the 2020 elections said that she has experienced it (Hinduphobia) in each of her campaigns for the Congress and in…
INDIAN health minister Harsh Vardhan on Thursday (5) said that India is in touch with Iran on possible evacuation of pilgrims and students stuck in the coronavirus-hit nation. The minister said the government is following up with Iran to tie-up evacuation of Indian pilgrims and students stranded in Tehran and Qom…
AS MANY AS 250 Indian medical students, mainly from Jammu and Kashmir, stranded in Iran are now at the mercy of the Indian government. Iran has 245 confirmed cases of infection with the COVID-19 disease, including 26 virus-associated deaths. Most recently, Iran Vice-President Masoumeh Ebtekar was tested positive for COVID-19.…
A SPECIAL Air India plane landed here on Saturday (1) morning after evacuating 324 Indian nationals from the novel coronavirus-hit Wuhan and another flight of the airline would leave the national capital for the Chinese city in the afternoon, officials said. The first plane Air India's jumbo B747 aircraft carrying…
With a model of the Pakistani villa where he lived and a video of Barack Obama explaining his hesitancy about approving the raid, a new exhibition details the operation that killed 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden. Revealed: The Hunt for Bin Laden, which opens Friday at the September 11, 2001…
JAZEERA Airways has connected India to the UK via a Delhi-London international flight service. The Kuwait airline has also become the first low-cost carrier in the Middle East to start service to the UK after it started a flight service between Kuwait City and London Gatwick last week. The Delhi-London…
INDIA has jumped 14 places to take the 63rd position in the World Bank's ease of doing business ranking released on Thursday (24), figuring among the top 10 performers on the list for the third time in a row mainly due to the successful implementation of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy…
INDIA has slipped to 102 position in the Global Hunger Index 2019 of 117 countries, slipping from its 2018 position of 95 and behind its neighbours Nepal, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Seventeen countries, including Belarus, Ukraine, Turkey, Cuba and Kuwait, shared the top rank with GHI scores of less than five,…
Controversial Islamic preacher Zakir Naik received crores of funds in his and his trusts' bank accounts from unidentified "well wishers" over the years for his speeches that spread "hatred and incited Muslim youths" to take up terrorism, an ED probe has found. The Islamic Research Foundation (IRF), Mumbai-based charity trust…
INDIA'S Indian Oil Corporation (IOC), the nation's biggest oil firm, has tied up imports from the US and taken additional volumes from Saudi Arabia to make up for the bulk of the volumes lost because of sanctions prohibiting buying oil from Iran, top officials said today (17). Iran supplied more…
THE fastest growing export markets for the UK are in Asia, with India reporting 19.3 per cent growth in 2018, latest data showed. Most of the UK’s fastest growing export partners in 2018 were from emerging markets across the world, the figures released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS)…
Asia's football chief and FIFA's second-in-command Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim al Khalifa received a fresh, four-year term on Saturday, drawing criticism from campaigners who said regional soccer was in "crisis" over human rights. The Bahraini royal, who was standing unopposed, was elected in his absence at the Asian Football Confederation…
JOHNSON & JOHNSON has resumed production of its baby powder at plants in India after government tests found no asbestos in the product, the company said today (28). "Johnson & Johnson has resumed production of its Johnson's Baby Powder at plants in Baddi and Mulund, India, after government sanctioned testing…
by ASJAD NAZIR. THE paintings of artist Nanda Khiara were exhibited recently at a five star hotel in the heart of Mumbai. The large canvases were showcasing her October Hues exhibition. The journey that has led the talented artist and single mother to where she is today has been a remarkable one. Born and…
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan today (16) called on the UK government to add India to the list of low-risk countries offered a more simplified student visa application process, asserting that it is vital the country maintains its reputation for higher education excellence. In a letter to UK home secretary…
India's southern state of Kerala, which had been grappling with the threat of Nipah virus, has finally lifted the travel advisory it issued last month. It is now safe to travel to any part of the state, the government said in a statement. Last month, Kerala had issued high alerts…
Surprising many, US president Donald Trump hosted his first Iftar dinner at the White House and sought co-operations from Muslims world over. Wednesday's Iftar dinner came as a shock to many considering Trump -- who frequently engages in anti-Muslim rhetoric -- skipped hosting such a party last year. During the…
1. Pink Lotus Tiffany Lamp The most expensive lamp in the world the Pink Lotus sold at Christie’s Auction House in New York, on December 12, 1997, for an unbelievable price of $2.8 million. The Tiffany Company was founded by Louis Comfort Tiffany in 1875. Louis Comfort Tiffany and Associated…
Myanmar must hold a "proper investigation" into alleged atrocities against the Rohingya, a UN Security Council envoy said Tuesday, after the highest-level diplomatic visit to an area from which 700,000 members of the Muslim minority have been driven out. Refugees and rights groups say Myanmar's army and vigilantes systematically raped…
1] Border Border is a 1997 Indian war film based on the Battle of Longewala during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. A band of 120 soldiers defend their post all night until they receive assistance from the Indian Air Force the next morning. It won 3 National Awards and four Filmfare Awards with other Starscreen Awards. 2] Rang…
US Defence Secretary James Mattis on Monday met the top Pakistani leadership here and reviewed current state of the bilateral ties and the war on terror, amidst Washington's concern that Islamabad was not doing enough to dismantle terror safe havens on its soil. Mattis, who arrived on Monday in Pakistan…
US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis will visit Pakistan next week as part of a four-nation tour during which he is expected to pressure Islamabad to do more against militant groups. During the tour, Mr. Mattis will visit Egypt, Jordan, Pakistan and Kuwait to re-affirm the enduring U.S.’ commitment to partnerships in…
Indians have emerged the top foreign property investors in Dubai, spending over $3.2 billion last year alone, according to the Dubai Land Department. The total real estate investments last year reached Dh91 billion ($2.4bn) from 55,928 investors and Indians were ranked highest in terms of both volume and value among…
SIX Asian candidates will vie for three seats on the reformed FIFA Council in Goa on Tuesday (September 27) after a senior Qatari official was barred from the election due to an ongoing investigation into corruption. The FIFA Council has replaced the largely discredited Executive Committee under reforms instituted in…
India said on Sunday (31) that it would attempt to bring back Indian workers from Saudi Arabia who are struggling to survive as a result of losing their jobs. It said that it would be sending a government minister to the middle eastern country to try to bring back more…
Raj Hundal has unveiled a masterplan to revolutionise cue sports forever – with an innovative new league featuring the “crème de la crème” of world pool. The 2005 World Masters champ gave Eastern Eye exclusive access to his business blueprint, which he hopes will rival the successes of similar franchise-based…