Category: World

Two arrest warrants were issued on Thursday against Bangladesh’s Opposition leader and former premier Khaleda Zia after she failed to attend court hearings in graft and defamation cases, a move her lawyer said was a “ploy by the government” to stop her from returning home from London. The first warrant was issued by Dhaka Metropolitan magistrate Nur Nabi over a […]

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2017 was awarded to Richard H. Thaler ”for his contributions to behavioural economics.” Dr. Thaler (72) has incorporated psychologically realistic assumptions into analyses of economic decision-making, a media release by Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said. “By exploring the consequences of limited rationality, social preferences, and lack of […]

Pakistan’s anti-corruption authorities on Monday arrested the son-in-law of ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif from an airport here in connection with corruption cases pending against him. A team of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) took former army captain Muhammad Safdar into custody minutes after his arrival from London at the Benazir Bhutto International Airport along with his wife Maryam Nawaz. […]

At least 14 people were killed and 30 others injured when an over-speeding passenger van collided head-on with a bus in the Mustang area of Balochistan province on Saturday, police and hospital authorities said. Police and rescue officials said that the death toll could rise as the condition of at least six injured was said to be serious. The driver […]

At least 13 people were killed and 27 other were injured in a suicide attack at a shrine in Jhal Magsi town in Balochistan. Senior Superintendent of Police Jhal Magsi Mohammed Iqbal said a suicide attacker exploded himself at the gate of Fatehpur dargah when police guards spotted him and tried to stop him from going inside. “Most of the […]