Bollywood star and former Miss World Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and her eight-year-old daughter tested positive for the coronavirus, state officials confirmed Sunday. The news follows an announcement Saturday that her father-in-law Amitabh Bachchan and her husband Abhishek tested positive and were admitted to the hospital. Though Amitabh Bachchan, 77, was admitted to the hospital, he is reportedlyRead more

Police in India say they have shot and killed notorious criminal Vikas Dubey, wanted in connection with at least 60 crimes, including the killing of eight police officers.   Officials say Dubey had given himself up in the central town of Ujjain on Thursday after a week-long search. They say police were driving him Friday toRead more

The United States believes Russia has given support to Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan in the past but does not have intelligence to confirm it directed attacks against Americans or to corroborate that it paid bounties to kill American troops, the top U.S. general said on Thursday.The remarks by Army General Mark Milley, chairman of theRead more

The Taliban denied news reports Thursday that they have agreed to an alternative list of prisoners to break a deadlock over prisoner exchange which is holding back the start of negotiations to reach a political settlement.       FILE – Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen is seen during talks in the Qatari capital Doha, July 7,Read more

Squatting in the middle of her badly charred room, its tiled roof blown off, Hena Tabassum described how on May 12 a Hindu mob launched a fiery attack on her brick-and-tile shack.“We were fasting for Ramadan. It was around 12:30 p.m. Suddenly the mob attacked. They threw bombs, petrol bombs, and also dropped a gasRead more

A group of young people demonstrated Wednesday in Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad, in support of the construction in the city of a Hindu temple that was halted under pressure from various Islamist groups.The under-construction boundary wall of the Krishna Mandir, as the temple is being called, was destroyed by a group of men over the weekendRead more

Pakistan said Tuesday an ongoing investigation into “dubious” commercial pilot licenses has led to the dismissal of 28 pilots working for the national airline.The move followed government revelations nearly two weeks ago that 262 out of 860 active pilots in the country working with state-run Pakistan Internal Airlines (PIA) and domestic, as well as foreign,Read more

The top U.S. general for the Middle East said Tuesday that the intelligence suggesting that Russia may have paid Taliban militants to kill American troops in Afghanistan was worrisome, but he is not convinced that any bounties resulted in U.S. military deaths.  General Frank McKenzie, the head of U.S. Central Command, said in a telephone interviewRead more

Pakistan’s authorities must protect the rights of the Hindu minority in the country, FILE – Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan in Islamabad, Pakistan, March 16, 2020.Last Friday, however, officials from Capital Development Authority halted progress on the building, followed by the vandalization of the temple’s boundary wall by a group of Islamic fundamentalists over theRead more

In the first sign that India and China are deescalating tensions along their disputed border, both sides have agreed to a “disengagement process” and pulled back troops from the site of a clash that killed 20 Indian soldiers in mid June.     However analysts warn that resolving differences that have flared at different contested zones inRead more

Pakistan has rolled out its first ever locally produced ventilators for deployment at hospitals treating coronavirus patients as the national tally of COVID-19 infections rises to nearly 232,000.      The pandemic has killed about 4,800 people since late February when it reached the South Asian nation of about 220 million; however, officials have reportedRead more

Afghanistan’s government announced Monday it will not release 600 prisoners out of a list of 5,000 the Taliban wants freed as a prerequisite to starting negotiations with other Afghan groups on reaching a political settlement to end decades of conflict.   Sediq Sediqi, the spokesman for President Ashraf Ghani, said during a press conference in KabulRead more