Govt has eased FDI norms for foreign cos having small Chinese/Hong Kong stake: An explainerIndia has eased Foreign Direct Investment rules for companies with up to ten percent Chinese or Hong Kong shareholding. These firms can now...
04 May, 2026, 12.27 PM IST
How Asia-Pacific is fighting a fuel shock that could get worseAsian nations are grappling with prolonged energy supply strains due to the Middle East conflict, prompting governments to implement costly...
28 Apr, 2026, 07.52 AM IST
Pakistan ill-prepared to tackle new Covid-19 variant's arrivalThe National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) says that the situation is being closely monitored but according to the Dawn newspaper the...
26 Dec, 2022, 01.36 PM IST
Pakistan lifts all Covid-related restrictionsThe announcement comes as Pakistan registered 493 new cases in the last 24 hours, taking the number of confirmed cases to 1,520,120 while a...
16 Mar, 2022, 04.16 PM IST
Singapore removes India, 5 other South Asian nations from travel restriction listAs per Singapore Health Ministry, travellers from these countries will be subject to Category IV border measures. They will still be requir...
23 Oct, 2021, 04.12 PM IST
Philippines to lift coronavirus travel ban on 10 countries including India, UAETravelers from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia will have to...
04 Sep, 2021, 03.13 PM IST
Pakistan to allow Sikh pilgrims to visit Kartarpur Sahib amid COVID-19 waveDue to the Delta variant, India had been in category C in Pakistan from May 22 till August 12, and special approval was required for people...
22 Aug, 2021, 01.19 PM IST
Pak lifts travel restrictions from 11 countries, including IndiaThe authority lifted travel restrictions on incoming passengers from 11 countries including India, Argentina, Bhutan, Maldives and Brazil. ...
14 Aug, 2021, 02.02 PM IST
COVID-19: Pakistan bans domestic air travel for unvaccinated people, cases cross 1 million mark"Restriction is for domestic air travel and people travelling from Pakistan to abroad or from abroad to Pakistan are exempted from restrict...
25 Jul, 2021, 05.46 PM IST
Pakistan puts travel ban on people from 26 countries including IndiaThe National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), a nerve centre to synergize effort against COVID has placed these countries in the "C cat...
14 Jun, 2021, 10.23 AM IST
Pakistan reaches out to China to ensure supply of COVID-19 vaccineForeign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi held a telephone conversation with his Chinese counterpart and State Councilor Wang Yi, underscoring ...
23 Mar, 2021, 02.08 PM IST
Govt denied permission to Feb Sikh 'Jatha' to visit Pakistan due to COVID, threat to safetyUnder the 1974 'Bilateral Protocol on Visits to Religious Shrines' between India and Pakistan, there are four occasions every year on which...
16 Mar, 2021, 04.14 PM IST
Pakistan's daily COVID-19 tally crosses 2,000 for first time since JanuaryLast time Pakistan recorded over 2,000 cases in a day on January 29 when 2,179 infections were detected, according to the data of the minis...
11 Mar, 2021, 04.46 PM IST
Pakistan not planning to buy COVID-19 vaccines; to rely on herd immunity and donated jabsSo far, four vaccines -Sinophram (China), Oxford-AstraZeneca (UK), Sputnik-V (Russia) and Cansino Bio (China) have been registered in the c...
05 Mar, 2021, 02.18 PM IST
Pakistan provincial authorities introduce new COVID-19 restrictions; national tally reaches 379,883The health department in the largest Punjab province issued new guidelines for government and private offices to restrict attendance. It sa...
24 Nov, 2020, 01.01 PM IST
Decision on re-opening Kartarpur corridor to be taken considering COVID-19 protocols: MEA"As you are aware, movement was suspended in the wake of COVID-19 outbreak. We remain in touch with all concerned authorities including min...
03 Oct, 2020, 08.12 PM IST
Pakistan emulates ‘Chinese model’ of social distancingHowever, videos of people violating the social distancing measures have gone viral, according to media reports in Pakistan. In this situati...
03 Apr, 2020, 08.50 AM IST