LONDON/SEOUL, Aug 23 (Reuters): Singapore Airlines, British Airways and Lufthansa have increased their flights over Afghanistan after years of largely avoiding it now the Middle East conflict has made it seem a relatively safe option. The carriers mostly stopped transiting Afghanistan, which lies on major routes between Asia and Europe, three years ago when the
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LAHORE (Reuters): The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has charged a local man with cybercrime offences for spreading fake online information which fuelled riots in Britain, it said in a statement on Wednesday. The riots began after false information circulated online wrongly blaming an Islamist migrant for the killing of three young girls in a knife
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DHAKA, Aug 8 (Reuters): Nobel Peace laureate Muhammad Yunus made an emotional return home to Bangladesh on Thursday to lead a new interim government after weeks of student protests forced Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to resign and flee to neighbouring India. A harsh critic of Hasina, Yunus, 84, arrived in Dhaka following medical treatment in Paris
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TEHRAN: Iran\’s new President Masoud Pezeshkian on Tuesday took oath of office administered by the chief justice of the country. After the taking oath, President Pezeshkian said his government would be working to get lifted the economic sanctions imposed by the West. The oath-taking ceremony was attended by heads of governments and states from different
NEW YORK: The United Nations has stated that the population of the world would reach 10.3 billion mark in about 50 years, warning of its negative consequences. On July 11, the International Day of Population is observed every year and this year the UN released a report on the population of the world. According to
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