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Former King Gyanendra Bir Bikrim Shah of Nepal wants reinstatement of monarch in Nepal. In a statement quoted by BBC, the former King said, ‘This included the reinstatement of the dissolved parliament, the appointment of a...

Over 600,000 people displaced and around 20,000 houses destroyed so far. Oxfam has worked over the last 72 hours with the Government of Bangladesh and other agencies to assess the impact of the ongoing floods across...

By Maesam Khan Israel is nothing more than mosquito which cannot see the broad horizon of Iranian Nation.’ Dr. Ahmedi Nejad says while talking in north eastern Irani province of Khurasan.  (Fars News). This is not...

“We are reaching the limits of our patience here”, US Defence Secretary, Leon Panetta. (By Maesam Khan): US Defence secretary, Leon Panetta, warned that US is loosing patience for Pakistan over alleged safe heavens for Taliban...

Hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced by fighting in northern Mali and dozens have been subjected to arbitrary detention, extra-judicial executions or sexual violence including rape, Amnesty International said. In a new report ‘Mali:...

A British major, who founded a remote school in Pakistan that educated half of the country’s government, has retired at the age of 94. Major Geoffrey Langlands has decided to retire five years after launching a...

…To become China’s first woman in space Two fighter pilots are going head to head in hopes of becoming China’s first woman into space. Major Liu Yang, from Henan and Captain Wang Yaping, from Shandong, were...

Mobile phone with in-built radiation detector unveiled in Japan A new mobile phone with an inbuilt radiation detector has been introduced in Japan. The smartphone was developed by Softbank Corp and is the first to measure...

A project to ship cheetahs from Africa to India has been stopped by the country’s Court after an expert branded the move “misconceived.” India’s environment minister had supported the £35m plan to move the African cheetahs...

An Indian teacher went unpaid for two decades after officials spelled his father’s name and district name incorrectly and then suspended him as an impostor. Anarul Haque began his teaching career in Murshidabad in West Bengal...