What comes to mind when I think of India isn’t a problem with prison breaks. While reading this article, I couldn’t help but wonder why there are so many prisoners in India and what possible solutions there could be. I double checked one of the facts, concerning why there are such high numbers in the prisons, and it is true… Read more »
Schools were accused of links to the Gulen movement, which Turkey calls a terrorist organisation A Pakistani court has ordered a stay on the deportation of more than 100 Turkish teachers accused of links to a supposed terrorist organisation. The teachers and their families had been told to leave Pakistan within days after visa extensions were denied.
Late on Wednesday afternoon US President-elect Donald Trump had a phone call with Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
The prisoners escaped from a high-security prison in Punjab on Sunday Two major jailbreaks in a month have shone a spotlight on security in India’s overcrowded and under-staffed prisons. BBC Hindi’s Vineet Khare reports.
NEW DELHI: The government is clear that it is not ready to discuss demonetisation in Lok Sabha under a voting clause as such a motion will involve a likely criticism of the decision and can favour Speaker Sumitra Mahajan’s suggestion that a notice submitted by BJD under Rule 193 be taken up for debate.
Due to the fact that I am unfamiliar with the history of Bangladesh, this article caught me off guard. I was unaware that the country was officially Islamic and I also was unaware of the fact that it had struggled with dictatorships. My lack of knowledge aside, I believe that it is a noble decision to drop Islam as the… Read more »
India and Bhutan signed a new bilateral trade agreement on Saturday to enhance trade between the two countries through trade facilitation by improving procedures, an official statement said. “The bilateral agreement aims at cutting down on documentation and adding additional exit and entry points for Bhutan’s trade with other countries. It is also expected to further strengthen the excellent relations… Read more »
Having taken over the Onboard Security Team Operations (OBST) from Avant Garde Maritime Services Ltd since 13th November 2015, the Sri Lanka Navy was able to earn Rs. 2.33 Billion for the Government of Sri Lanka to date.
Dhaka: Muslim-majority Bangladesh will drop Islam as the country’s state religion “when the time comes”, a media report on Monday quoted a senior ruling Awami Leage leader as saying. “Islam has been kept as the state religion for strategic reasons,” the party’s Presidium Member and former minister Abdur Razzaq told a roundtable here on Sunday. “I have said it abroad… Read more »
TEHRAN — Despite president-elect Donald Trump’s campaign rhetoric that he would scrap the Iranian nuclear deal or renegotiate its terms, Iran won’t have it. “The results of the U.S. election have no effect on the policies of the Islamic Republic of Iran,” Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said the day after the election, according to the state news agency IRNA.