Friday, 22 January, 2021
JAKARTA: Indonesian leader Joko Widodo ordered beefed-up security measures on Friday after two militants from an IS-linked terror group stabbed his chief security minister, with the politician in hospital…
Key issues for the Modi-Xi summit
MAHABALIPURAM: India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and China’s President Xi Jinping will…
Hundreds take to HK streets, weekend protests planned
HONG KONG: Hundreds of mask-wearing pro-democracy protesters marched through Hong Kong’s central…
S Korea army to cut force by 1 lakh in three yrs
SEOUL: South Korea’s Army said Friday it will cut its force by 100,000 in the next three years…
7 killed as bus mows down sleeping pilgrims in India
LUCKNOW: Seven pilgrims sleeping by a roadside in northern India, on their way to make a ritual dip…
Indian pharma brothers arrested over ‘$330m fraud’
NEW DELHI: Police in India have arrested two businessmen brothers over alleged embezzlement of more…
News of the day
Pakistan’s jailed former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was on Friday remanded into the custody of…