
Lifestyle & Entertainment · Oct 12, 2026
Sarmad Sultan Khoosat’s dark comedy Lali will serve as the opening night film at the Tasveer Film Festival in Seattle, bringing a high-profile Pakistani title to North American audiences and highlighting an emerging wave of Pakistani filmmaking on the festival circuit.

World News · Oct 12, 2026
The Treasury in Wellington is holding a public seminar on October 12 that will examine economic security challenges in Southeast Asia and possible lessons for New Zealand, part of a broader push to deepen policy understanding of geopolitical and economic risks.

Business & Economy · Oct 12, 2026
New Delhi is preparing to allow companies empanelled under the IndiaAI Mission to offer GPU compute commercially to overseas customers, as officials seek to monetise excess capacity while expanding India as an AI compute hub.

Sports · Oct 11, 2026
India women’s cricket captain Smriti Mandhana was appointed UNICEF India Celebrity Advocate on International Day of the Girl, pledging to promote girls’ rights, health and access to sport.

World Politics News · Oct 11, 2026
Widespread high school blockades and clashes with police have spread across France, drawing trade unions and widening public debate over education, policing and President Emmanuel Macron’s political standing ahead of 2027 elections.

Hollywood · Oct 11, 2026
The Justice Department has opened a civil probe into whether the five major television networks that make up the White House TV pool violated federal antitrust law when they collectively suspended pooled coverage in protest of the administration’s ban on several outlets. The move escalates a months long confrontation between the White House and major news organisations and raises new legal and editorial questions for broadcasters and Hollywood news operations.

Bollywood · Oct 11, 2026
A promotional song launch and cast interaction for Ramayana Part 1 that was due to take place in Ramtek on October 11 has been deferred after local MLA Ashish Jaiswal said the event would be postponed amid a state drought and the makers offered to prioritise farmer relief.

World Scam · Oct 11, 2026
Thai authorities this week carried out the eighth phase of an operation targeting alleged foreign nominee companies, raiding 17 locations across four Bangkok luxury developments and placing 94 houses and land worth over 6 billion baht under investigation.

Technology & AI · Oct 11, 2026
Apper Digital Inc has been promoted to the Select tier of Anthropic’s Claude Partner Network, becoming the first Philippine company to reach that level. The elevation gives local enterprises a vetted integrator for Claude deployments and signals growing enterprise AI demand in the Philippines.

Lifestyle & Entertainment · Oct 11, 2026
Popular Nepali singer Astha Tamang Maskey performs a one-night show at Trisara, Kathmandu on October 11, bringing new original material and a relaxed, community-focused format during Dashain celebrations.

World News · Oct 11, 2026
Japan and the United States agreed on Saturday to consult closely after a US Marine stationed on Okinawa was arrested on suspicion of killing a Japanese woman, a case that has renewed public anger over the US military presence on the island.

Business & Economy · Oct 11, 2026
After two days of high level talks in Beijing, China and the European Union announced a tentative understanding to substantially reduce exports of hybrid and plug in hybrid vehicles from China to the bloc, while opening discussions on market access and rare earth export licensing.

World News · Oct 10, 2026
Widespread wildfires across Indonesian Borneo have left endangered orangutans injured, displaced and suffering respiratory problems, while communities contend with heavy haze and strained water supplies. Conservation groups and authorities are mounting rescues and urgent treatment as fires persist amid a dry season intensified by El Nino conditions.

Others · Oct 10, 2026
Authorities arrested 11 people, seized specialist detection equipment and dozens of antiquities after a months long probe that uncovered coordinated looting operations across six northern prefectures. Officials say the groups had operated since 2025 and used code words and local informants to avoid detection.

Press Release · Oct 10, 2026
A research team has published a dual-pathway framework to reduce land contamination and model errors in L-band satellite salinity retrievals, aiming to produce higher resolution, more accurate coastal sea surface salinity products for climate, coastal management and marine ecosystem monitoring.