... By Jimoh Babatunde As Dr. Akinwumi Adesina prepares to hand over the leadership of the African Development Bank (AfDB) on 1 September 2025, he has insisted that his legacy is not a personal one. His statement came as Mozambique’s President, Daniel Chapo, hailed him for a decade of transf...
Read Full Article...Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s deepest tax cuts in eight years will strain government revenues but are winning praise from businesses and political pundits who say they will bolster his image i...
...the Bagwai/Shanono State Constituency by-election in Kano, conducted on Saturday. The NNPP candidate, Ali Alhassan, emerged victorious with 16,198 votes, defeating his closest rival from the Al...
...r decades, conservatives, Islamists and populists in Pakistan have been launching tirades against ‘Westernisation’. Westernisation is the import and adoption of European culture, social and political ...
...one month before the fall of Kabul to the Taliban in August 2021, a closed-door discussion organised by an Islamabad-based security think-tank brought together regional experts, retired military offic...
... Guan Jing GILGIT: The body of Chinese mountaineer Guan Jing, who died on Aug 12 after being hit by falling rocks while descending from the K2 peak, has been recovered and br...
...slipped on Friday despite a Microsoft update for Windows 10 devices using the company’s chips....
...nocide does not serve as a strong enough daily reminder of how bereft of principles Western politics is, images of Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Donald Trump beamed live fro...
...WEEKS of monsoon rains since late June have culminated in catastrophe. In just two days, torrential downpours and cloudbursts unleashed flash floods across KP, killing more than 300 people. Entire vil...
...LAHORE: Pakistan’s new remote sensing satellite has successfully reached orbit and begun operations, sources at the Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (Suparco) said on Saturday. The ...