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By Asif Shahzad and Syed Raza Hassan ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Candidates for Pakistan’s next prime minister are due to file nomination papers on Sunday after incumbent Imran Khan lost a no-confidence vote in parliament, bringing an end to the former cricket star’s nearly four years in power. Khan had clung on for almost a week after a united opposition first tried to remove him, managing to put off the no-confidence vote, which he said was part of a foreign-backed plot against him, and dissolving parliament. But the Supreme Court ordered parliament to convene and hold the vote and Khan’s governme… Continue reading “Nominations for Pakistan PM due; supporters of ousted Khan expected to protest”

Pakistan’s plan for a Russian-built gas pipeline is nearly finalised despite the slew of international sanctions imposed on Moscow, The Financial Times reports. Islamabad’s Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin said the deal to build the multi-billion dollar pipeline is “almost done” and once completed it will carry liquified natural gas from the country’s southern port of Karachi to northern Pakistan. “We need a gas pipeline to transport LNG from south to north. That’ll become essential for us in the next two or three years,” he was quoted as saying in The Financial Times. “Either there’s an alterna… Continue reading “Pakistan to move forward with Russian-built gas pipeline”

Illustration of Lata Mangeshkar by Laxman8 via Pixabay. Remixed by Giovana Fleck. Used under a Pixabay Licence. Singer Lata Mangeshkar was one of India’s biggest cultural icons, and her journey in Bollywood, cannot be pegged as anything but legendary. Her death on February 6, 2022, in Mumbai, India at 92 years of age, is leaving fans across South Asia mourning her absence. Mangeshkar was fondly known as “the nightingale of India” because she lent the melodious lilt of her voice to innumerable songs for over seven decades, looming taller than any other female singer in Bollywood. News platform … Continue reading “South Asia mourns the demise of the nightingale of India”

By Abhirup Roy and Shilpa Jamkhandikar MUMBAI (Reuters) -Lata Mangeshkar, one of India’s biggest cultural icons and a singer who defined music and melody for generations of her countrymen, died on Sunday. She was 92 and is survived by her four siblings. She was hospitalised on Jan. 11 after being infected with what a doctor told Reuters was COVID-19. Mangeshkar died on Sunday morning of “multi-organ failure after more than 28 days of hospitalisation post COVID-19,” said Dr Pratit Samdani, who was treating her at Mumbai’s Breach Candy Hospital, according to Reuters TV partner ANI. Mangeshkar’s … Continue reading “Indian singer Lata Mangeshkar, “the Nightingale,” dies at 92″