SRINAGAR: Authorities in Indian Kashmir have banned a local newspaper they claimed was inciting violence in the Himalayan region, which has been roiled by...
JOHANNESBURG: The shy, scale-covered pangolin is to receive the highest level of protection against illegal trade to try to save it from extinction, after a vote Wednesday by delegates at a global conference.
RIO DE JANEIRO: The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) banned all Russians from its own Games next month because of the widespread doping culture that it says has polluted sport in the country.
KARACHI: Supreme Court of Pakistan issued a verdict banning billboards from the roofs of private residential apartments and high-rise buildings within the city.
KARACHI: Actor-cum-director Ashir Azeem's controversial film Maalik could be banned in Pakistan but the maker is confident and positive that its global release would be big.
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) on Friday barred Hamza Ali Abbasi from hosting a Ramazan show on a private television after submission of numerous complaints to the authority, ARY News reported.
ISLAMABAD: The government on Tuesday imposed a ban on acquisition of lands under the pretext of housing societies in the federal capital, ARY News reported.
MINGORA: The administration of University of Swat has banned intermingling of boys and girls and warned of punishment in case of rule’s violation, ARY News reported.
The technology is evolving every day and so are the digital applications and brands associated with the technology. In a latest announcement, WhatsApp is set to drop support for many older phones, arguing that they could hold back the app’s growth.
TORONTO: A Canadian man who smuggled 38 turtles in his pants has been given probation, a fine and has been banned from owning such reptiles for 10 years.
CALIFORNIA: Twitter Inc has clarified its definition of abusive behaviour that will prompt it to delete accounts, banning "hateful conduct" that promotes violence against specific groups.
DHAKA: Star all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan was handed a one-match ban Friday over a double foul-mouthed outburst during the ongoing Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) Twenty20 competition.
YANGON: In a ramshackle hospital in Myanmar's largest city, at the end of a corridor milling with patients, sits the man some people believe will be the country's next president.
Salman Khan's Eid release, Bajrangi Bhaijaan, may have set the cash counters ringing across the border, but the Riteish Deshmukh-Pulkit Samrat satire, Bangistan, has been banned in Pakistan.
TEHRAN: Iran's ultra-conservative weekly "9-Day" was banned on Monday for criticising the government over its negotiations with world powers on the country's controversial nuclear programme, the ISNA news agency reported.
NEW DELHI: Akshay Kumar’s espionage thriller ‘Baby’, which centres round an Indian spy’s mission to capture a terrorist from a West Asian nation, has been banned in Pakistan.
QUETTA: Police and Frontier Constabulary jointly launched a search operation in Saryab area and arrested four suspects including a terrorist belonging to banned terror outfit, ARY News reported.
MACAU: President Xi Jinping visited a drizzly Macau on Friday for the 15th anniversary of the gambling hub's return to Chinese rule, with onlookers barred from using umbrellas -- the emblem of democracy protests in nearby Hong Kong.