LAHORE: Pakistan and India began their first talks under the Permanent Indus Commission in two and a half years in New Delhi on Tuesday to resolve the longstanding dispute over the hydroelectric projects India is building on the River Chenab. Reuters news agency quoted an Indian official as playing down prospects for a “breakthrough” in the ongoing talks. Pakistan’s delegation …

Pregnant Hillary Duff recently announced the release of her new story My Brave Little Girl and took social media by surprised in its wake. The book features adorable eye catching sketches depicting the life of a ‘brave’ little girl who’s “feet will take many big steps” and stumble just as much. Check it out below:

The leading lady of Hollywood, Jennifer Aniston often becomes the subject of tittle-tattle in Tinseltown owing to her past dating history with numerous A-listers. Following the several reports about her and Brad Pitt, fans have now started speculating the Friends actor may have had a reunion with ex-boyfriend John Mayer recently. The new claims emerged after the Daughters singer was recently spotted with a …

KABUL: Tensions are mounting between Afgh­anistan’s government and a powerful local warlord, with deadly clashes erupting in a rural province between his fighters and government troops. The fear is that the violence could be a harbinger of more chaos as US troops head toward the exits. The government has launched an assault in central Maidan Wardak province, vowing to punish …

DHAKA: At least 15 people have been killed in a massive fire that ripped through a Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh, while at least 400 remain missing, the UN refugee agency said on Tuesday. “It is massive, it is devastating,” said UNHCR’s Johannes Van der Klaauw, who joined a Geneva briefing virtually from Dhaka, Bangladesh. “We still have 400 people …

MOSCOW: Three members of a Russian bomber’s air crew died on Tuesday when their ejection seats accidentally activated during preflight checks, the military said. The Russian Defence Ministry said the incident happened at an airbase in the Kaluga region, about 145 kilometres (90 miles) southwest of Moscow. It said the crew of a Tu-22M3 long-range bomber was preparing for a …

GENEVA: UN human rights boss Michelle Bachelet was given a mandate on Tuesday to collect and preserve information and evidence of crimes related to Sri Lanka’s long civil war, which ended in 2009 with the defeat of the separatist Tamil Tigers. The Human Rights Council adopted a resolution, brought by Britain on behalf of a group of countries, boosting her …

BERLIN: Germany will enter a strict shutdown for five days over Easter amid surging virus rates, Chancellor Angela Merkel and regional leaders agreed on Tuesday as criticism mounted over the government’s handling of the pandemic. As well as extending existing measures including keeping cultural, leisure and sporting facilities shut through to April 18, Merkel and Germany’s 16 state premiers ordered …

BEIJING: The foreign ministers of China and Russia affirmed their countries’ close ties at a meeting on Tuesday, amid intense criticism and new Western sanctions against them over human rights. Wang Yi and Sergei Lavrov rejected outside sniping at their authoritarian political systems and said they were working to further global progress on issues from climate change to the coronavirus …

Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid al-Maktoum, Dubai’s deputy ruler and the United Arab Emirates’ long-serving finance minister, has died, Dubai’s ruler said on Wednesday. Sheikh Hamdan, 75, was the brother of the ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum. He had been unwell for some months and had surgery abroad in October. Dubai’s ruler bid farewell to “my brother, my …