By Fayaz Bukhari SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) – India’s government detained at least 75 Kashmiri political leaders and activists to forestall political unrest after an alliance of Kashmir’s regional political parties won a local election, leaders and a police official said on Saturday. The District Council election, concluded early this week, was the first such exercise […]
By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU (Reuters) – A senior Chinese official arrived in Kathmandu on Sunday to assess the political situation, local party officials said, a first diplomatic step by the neighbouring power after Nepal’s Prime Minister dissolved parliament a week ago. China has poured millions of dollars into Nepal in recent years in the form […]
By Reuters Staff MUMBAI (Reuters) – Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Friday that protests by farmers against three laws brought by his government were politically motivated, as he touted the success of an agricultural scheme launched last year. Thousands of farmers from several Indian states have been camped on the outskirts of New Delhi […]
By Reuters Staff KABUL (Reuters) – A prominent advocate of democracy in Afghanistan who headed an election monitoring organisation was gunned down on Wednesday in a Kabul neighbourhood, drawing widespread condemnation locally and internationally. Yousuf Rasheed, executive director of the Free and Fair Elections Forum of Afghanistan Organization (FEFA), was shot dead while his driver […]
By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU (Reuters) – Nepal’s Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli faced a fresh political challenge on Friday as hundreds of opponents protested against his sudden move to dissolve parliament and call elections more than a year ahead of the schedule. Three former prime ministers joined hundreds of activists who sat on a road […]
By Geeta Pandey BBC News, Delhi The decade-long relationship of a politician couple in the Indian state of West Bengal has hit rock bottom – and the headlines – after the wife switched to a rival party and the husband publicly threatened to divorce her. On Tuesday, Saumitra Khan, an MP from Prime Minister Narendra […]
By Aditi Shah NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Honda Motor Co has halted production at one of its two car manufacturing plants in India, the carmaker said on Wednesday, a country where sales of its vehicles have been under pressure from competitors. The Japanese automaker has stopped producing cars at its plant in Greater Noida close […]
By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU (Reuters) – Nepal’s Supreme Court on Wednesday started hearing petitions challenging Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli’s sudden dissolution of parliament and call for fresh elections, a move denounced by his opponents as unconstitutional. Oli’s decision, the culmination of months of political turmoil in the Himalayan country situated between China and India, has […]
By Aditi Shah, Aftab Ahmed NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Cairn Energy has won an international arbitration case against the Indian government over a tax dispute, ending one of the country’s highest-profile disputes, two sources with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters. Cairn took the case to arbitration in 2015 to fight against a demand in […]
By Hafizullah Maroof BBC Afghan Europe migrant crisis Before he got on the boat to make the clandestine crossing, Shafiullah called his family in Afghanistan to tell them he was OK and on his way to Turkey. After the call, Shafiullah, who was 16, boarded the boat. He was one of about 100 passengers that […]
