Father and brother of tuition teacher from Gampaha arrested

Pakistan restricts movement of Afghans through Torkham border after rise in terror attacks: Report

Pakistan has unilaterally decided to restrict the movement of Afghans coming to Peshawar through the Torkham border, Ilhamuddin Afghan wrote in the Afghan Diaspora Network report, adding that Pakistan’s decision comes as the first two months of 2023 has proved to be deadly for the country with two major terror attacks claiming more than 100 lives. Recently, Pakistan tightened security measures and controls at the border crossings with Afghanistan since TTP has increased terror attacks within Pa

28 Feb, 2023

?Testing the waters?: 3 countries ? 3 goals during South Africa?s controversial naval drills with China and Russia

When the Russian naval frigate the Admiral Gorshkov arrived in the port of Richards Bay in South Africa early this week for joint military drills with China and South Africa, it was sporting the letters Z and V on its sides. Those are the same letters seen on Russian weapons on the front lines in Ukraine, and now considered patriotic symbols in Russia. Russian navy commanders downplayed the meaning of the symbols but the deployment of Admiral Gorshkov, which is armed with hypersonic missiles,

28 Feb, 2023

Nalanda: The university that changed the world

The winter morning was cloaked in thick fog. Our car swerved past horse-drawn carriages, a mode of transport still popular in the rural reaches of the eastern Indian state of Bihar, the trotting horses and turbaned coachmen looking like shadowy apparitions in the pearly-white mist. After spending a night in the town of Bodhgaya, the ancient settlement where Lord Buddha is said to have attained enlightenment, I set out that morning for Nalanda, whose red-brick ruins are all that remain of one of

28 Feb, 2023