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In what is being seen as a setback to bilateral relations between the two countries, Chinese President Xi Jinping, who was expected to visit Nepal in October, has cancelled the trip. This was conveyed to Nepalese Foreign Secretary Shankar Bairagi by the Chinese ambassador to Nepal Wu Chuntai...

Livee updates: 11.42 am: Data packs available in market have an effective rate of Rs.250/GB. With Jio, you can optimise to Rs. 50/GB: Mukesh Ambani. (ANI) 11.40 am: Jio tariffs are explicitly designed to give you the full freedom and flexibility to use as much data as you want, says Mukesh...

KARACHI: Pakistan’s trade deficit with its largest trading partner China widened to $6.223 billion in the previous fiscal year. The increase in the deficit came as Pakistan’s exports to China falter while imports from that country have been increasing for the last five years. The volume of...

Overseas Pakistani workers sent remittances amounting to over $1.3 billion in July, down 20.2% from the same month of 2015, according to data released by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) on Wednesday. On a month-on-month basis, the drop in remittances clocked up at almost 36% in July, as...

If you own a German passport, the world is your oyster, but spare a thought for the Iraqis, who along with several of their regional neighbours can only dream of visa-free travel to most of the planet. That's according to an annual report released Wednesday on the world's most useless...

IsLAMABAD: The government has admitted that Pakistan’s exports with its neighbouring countries have been sliding since 2012-13. As the trade liberalisation agenda has been put on the back burner, the gains made through trade liberalisation with India have started to reverse, official statistics...

China is finding itself falling into a strategic nightmare with the first sign of a Washington-Tokyo-Seoul military alliance at its doorstep after South Korea hinted it would share missile intelligence with Japan, analysts say. South Korea’s Ministry of Defence only said it could share with...

Forgive the Chinese if they start feeling a certain amount of OS envy. For more than 15 years, China has unsuccessfully attempted to come up with a homegrown operating system that would be loved by the masses and allow the country to be freed from the shackles of Western technological...

Boeing is set to meet the Indian defense ministry to offer details on its offer to set up an assembly line for the F/A-18 Super Hornet in India. Shelly Lavender, President and CEO of Boeing Military Aircraft, told Indian journalists at the Farnborough Air Show 2016 held earlier this month, that...

Indian Railways plans to rack up debt to help fund an unprecedented modernization plan. Some 2.5 trillion rupees ($37 billion) of debt is required in the five years through 2020, according to Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu. That’s more than triple the 692 billion rupees of outstanding Indian...

India’s ambitious plan to interlink rivers to achieve greater equity in the distribution of water in the country reached an important milestone on July 6, when water from the Godavari, its second-longest river, rushed to meet the fourth-longest, the Krishna. The two became the first of 30 rivers...

http://www.dawn.com/news/1271988/germany-train-attacker-may-have-been-from-pakistan-authorities WUERZBURG: German authorities have cast doubt on whether a teenager who went on an axe rampage on a Bavarian train was really an Afghan refugee, saying Wednesday he might have been from Pakistan...

NEW DELHI: In the early hours of June 13, 1999, at the height of the Kargil War, Indian Air Force fighter pilots were minutes away from launching a full-fledged air attack deep inside Pakistan. Targets had been assigned, route maps finalised; personal revolvers to be carried by pilots had been...

Full story at http://tribune.com.pk/story/1142241/pakistan-sport-hits-low-point-qualifying-debacle/ LAHORE, PAKISTAN: Pakistan’s sporting decline has left the vast South Asian nation that once prided itself on producing the world’s best hockey and squash players facing up to an Olympics for...

The Chinese government's call to the nation to build an innovation-driven economy from the top down has sparked a rush by local governments to construct new buildings in the name of supporting creativity. Innovation centers have been popping up around the country and are set to more than double...

We are pleased to present the twelfth annual Fragile States Index. The FSI focuses on the indicators of risk and is based on thousands of articles and reports that are processed by our CAST Software from electronically available sources. We encourage others to utilize the Fragile States Index to...

The Radiance of Tejas: A bright prospect for 'Make in India' I must state at the outset, that the title of this post is a tribute to B.Harry, a true geek whose wantonly premature demise was a major loss to the analysis and archival of Indian military research and development (R&D). Needless to...

NEW DELHI: HIGHLIGHTS DAC to clear proposals worth 29000 crores for new gen warships, upgrades 'Pocket battleships' to be armed with Brahmos anti-shipping missiles Navy plans to acquire 5 diving support craft in a Make-in-India proposal On a day when the Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar...

Flush with the success of the technology demonstration flight of its Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV- TD) last month, ISRO is gearing up to test a scramjet engine based on air-breathing propulsion. The test flight of the indigenously-developed scramjet engine is scheduled to take place from the...