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On the three-year anniversary of the Taliban's return to power, the group's supreme leader said in a speech that implementing Islamic law in the country was a "lifelong responsibility" for the Afghanistan rulers.

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has allotted PKR 12.80 billion ($49 million) for three ICC Champions Trophy 2025 venues' upgradation, said reports in local media.

According to figures from the Japanese Immigration Service Agency, by the end of last year, 821,838 Chinese nationals were living in Japan, a 13% rise from 2022.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met the successful Paris Olympics contingent on Thursday (Aug 15) as the nation celebrated its 78th Independence Day. The contingent led by PR Sreejesh and Manu Bhaker was greeted by the Indian PM with other athletes also joining.

North Korea closed its borders for foreign tourism in the early 2020s, during the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Nearly after five years, North Korea will reopen its borders to foreign tourists in the winter this year.

A man from the northern Indian state of Punjab claimed he was charged INR 220 ($2.6) in toll tax even though he was chilling at home. The man, Sunderdeep Singh from the Ludhiana district, took to social media platform X to report the unauthorised FASTag transaction.

Indian Independence Day is here, and it would not be wrong to call it a festive week for the tinsel town, with Bollywood offering plenty of options for the audience hwading to theatres.

Taylor Swift will return to the stage in London on Thursday to end the European leg of her "Eras" tour, a week after her Vienna concerts were cancelled due to a suicide attack plot.

Tensions persist in Indian state of West Bengal, a mob vandalized the emergency building of the RG Kar college and hospital where a female trainee doctor was found dead last week. This recent incident took place shortly after midnight amid protests by women against the gruesome rape and murder of the said trainee doctor. Watch in for more details!

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday (Aug 15) announced the creation of 75,000 medical seats over the next five years in his Independence Day address to the nation.

China on Thursday (August 15) announced that it will control the export of rare antimony metals, ores and oxides. The export control will be effective from September 15, 2024.

Google has confirmed that an Iranian hacking group has been attempting to infiltrate personal email accounts of several individuals linked to US President Joe Biden, the former president Donald Trump and Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris. Watch in for more details!

Two former bank employees, both Chinese nationals, were charged in Singapore on Thursday in connection with the city-state's biggest money laundering case, police said.

Ukraine said on Wednesday it carried out its largest long-range drone strike of the war on four Russian military airfields overnight, which were hailed by President Volodymyr Zelensky as "timely" and "accurate". Watch to know more.

Toomaj Salehi, the Iranian dissident rapper who evaded the death penalty earlier this summer, has been completely absolved of all charges by a lower court in Isfahan, Central Iran.

As the Tricolour is hoisted on the 78th Independence Day in Delhi, the Indigenous 105mm Light Field Guns of 1721 Fd Bty give the traditional 21 Gun Salute, the Indian Army said in a statement on X.

The strange forms of small asteroids Dimorphos and Selam have fascinated astronomers for a long time. A recent study has revealed that these unusual shapes are not as rare as once thought, suggesting that these moonlets would be encountered more commonly.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the nation at the Red Fort, New Delhi on the occasion of India's 78th Independence Day, on Thursday (Aug 15). During his speech, Modi touched upon various aspects and even congratulated the Indian contingent, with some of them in attendance, for their performance in the just-concluded Paris Olympics 2024 edition.

Three people have been arrested and a fourth is wanted after a knife attack on the father of young Spanish football star Lamine Yamal in Catalonia, local police told AFP Thursday.