A nature influencer named Hannah Barron who took social media by storm with her unique content has been criticised for her southern accent. An Alabama woman named Hannah Barron has taken social media by storm in recent days with her unique content on Instagram. The nature influencer is called The Catfish Girl for her interesting noodling videos. On her Instagram, she says she is interested in hunting, fishing, noodling and bowfishing. With 1.5M followers on Instagram, Barron’s admirers frequently flock to her comment section to praise her content. One woman, however, went viral for trolling…
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Read MoreBurger Singh kept the graffiti put up by the Pakistani hackers for a day, saying that ‘inspiration strikes in the oddest of places’. A Pakistani group named Team Insane PK hacked the website of fast-food chain Burger Singh on February 27. Not only that, they also gave a ‘surprise makeover’ to the website. Burger Singh has shared details of the cyberattack on X with a touch of humour and also revealed their strategy for the future: “Burgers in hand, smile on the face - always”. “Urgent advisory: Pakistani group hacks Burger Singh website,” wrote Burger Singh on X. Alongside, they shared a de…
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London, Nov 17 (PTI) Industry and student groups in Britain have welcomed the new UK-India Young Professionals Scheme launched by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, calling it a great step in ensuring the smooth movement of top talent between markets. The scheme launched on Wednesday will be up and running from early next year to offer up to 3,000 visas annually to Indian students and professionals aged between 18 and 30 to live and work in the UK for 24 months, with British nationals granted a similar offer for India. The Lord Mayor of London, who represents the financial hub of the City of L…
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Bali, Nov 16. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday held "fruitful" talks with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on the sidelines of the G-20 summit here and the two leaders examined ways to expand bilateral economic engagement and defence collaboration. This is the third time that Modi and Scholz have met this year. The first meeting between the two leaders took place during Modi's visit to Berlin on May 2 for the 6th India-Germany Inter-Governmental Consultations (IGC). It was followed by Modi's visit to Schloss Elmau in Germany, as partner country for the G7 Summit at Chancellor Scho…
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Read MoreIslamabad, Nov 29. General Asim Munir, Pakistan's former spymaster, on Tuesday assumed charge as the country's new Army chief, replacing General Qamar Javed Bajwa who retired after two consecutive three-year terms. Munir assumed charge at an impressive ceremony at the General Headquarters (GHQ), becoming the 17th Chief of the Army Staff. The ceremony was attended by senior officers, diplomats and politicians. In his brief address on the occasion, General Bajwa said: “I am happy that I am leaving the command of the Army in safe hands." Later, Bajwa passed the baton of command to General …
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Read Moren,” Mr. Musk said in a tweet on November 21. File photo | Photo Credit: AP Twitter's new owner Elon Musk said on Monday, November 21, 2022 that the social media company is holding off the relaunch of its blue check subscription service, a delay from his initial tentative timeline to bring back the service on the platform. "Holding off relaunch of Blue Verified until there is high confidence of stopping impersonation," Mr. Musk said in a tweet. "Will probably use different color check for organisations than individuals," he added. Twitter had paused its recently announced $8 blue c…
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The number of eggs exported from Namakkal district to Qatar have been increased to 2.5 crore from 1.50 crore due to an increase in demand, thanks to the FIFA World Cup, and a cheaper price compared with Turkish eggs. In Namakkal district, approximately 1,100 poultry farms are functioning, and these farms produce 5.5 crore to 6 crore eggs per day. Out of these, 1.50 to 1.75 crore eggs are sent to Kerala, 45 lakh eggs to the noon meal scheme, 40 lakh eggs to Bengaluru, and the remaining to various parts of the State and to various countries.
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The former Silicon Valley star falsely claimed the technology could diagnose disease with just a few drops of blood. Holmes, 38, who is pregnant, tearfully told the court she felt "deep pain" for those misled by the scam. She was found guilty in January after a three-month trial. Holmes is expected to appeal against the sentence, which was handed down on Friday in a California court. Once hailed as the "next Steve Jobs", she was at one time said to be the world's youngest self-made billionaire. She launched Theranos after dropping out of Stanford University at age 19, and its va…
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Read MoreKathmandu, Nov 20: Millions of Nepalese began voting on Sunday to elect a new parliament and provincial assemblies amid tight security, hoping to end the political instability that has plagued the country for more than a decade and impeded growth. The polling started at 7 am local time at over 22,000 polling centres and will close at 5 pm. The counting of the votes will begin soon after the polling ends but final results are expected within a week. More than 17.9 million eligible voters will elect a 275-member House of Representatives. Source: PTI
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Many of those killed and injured in a major earthquake on the Indonesian island of Java were children who were at school when it hit, rescuers say. Aprizal Mulyadi, 14, said he was trapped after "the room collapsed and my legs were buried under the rubble". He said he was pulled to safety by his friend Zulfikar, who then later died after himself becoming trapped. Search teams are scrambling to find survivors after more than 100 people died and thousands were left homeless. The 5.6 magnitude quake struck a mountainous region on Monday, causing landslides that buried entire villages…
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JAKARTA: Around 20 people were killed and at least 300 injured after an earthquake of magnitude 5.4 struck Indonesia's main island of Java on Monday. Several buildings were damaged and people in closed places rushed out to the streets for safety. The depth of the earthquake was measured to be 10 kilometres. According to a PTI report, the quake was strongly felt for almost 3 minutes. Moreover, high-rises in the city swayed and had to be evacuated. "The quake felt so strong. My colleagues and I decided to get out of our office on the ninth floor with emergency stairs," said Vidi Primadhania…
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Almost 40 years after his first attack, Australian police have identified a serial rapist who terrorised Sydney over three decades. Keith Simms targeted 31 women between 1985 and 2001, entering their homes or attacking them while they were out jogging, police say. Detectives initially believed several different men were behind the attacks. But thanks to new DNA technology, investigators have now linked them all to Simms, who died aged 66 in February. Known at different times as "the Bondi Beast" or "the Tracksuit Rapist", Simms first struck in the seaside suburb of Clovelly in 198…
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Islamabad, Nov 24. Pakistan's former spy master and senior-most Lt General Asim Munir was on Thursday appointed as the new Army chief by President Arif Alvi, ending intense speculation over the most powerful position in the coup-prone country, where the military wields considerable power in matters of security and foreign policy. He will be the first army chief who has headed both powerful intelligence agencies - the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and the Military Intelligence (MI). His stint as the spy chief at the ISI was the shortest ever as he was replaced by Lt Gen Faiz Hamid withi…
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Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba’s Nepali Congress-led ruling coalition was on Thursday on its way to winning Nepal’s parliamentary elections and has bagged 58 seats out of 101 declared so far. Of the 275 members of Parliament, 165 will be elected through direct voting. The remaining 110 will be elected through a proportional electoral system. Till now, the Nepali Congress has won 36 seats and is leading in 16 more. The CPN-Maoist Centre has bagged nine seats, the CPN-Unified Socialist nine and the Rastriya Janamorcha and the Lokatantrik Samajwadi Party two each. They all are part of t…
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Long-time opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim was sworn in as Malaysia's prime minister on Thursday in a victory for political reformers who were locked in a battle with Malay nationalists for days after a divisive general election produced a hung Parliament. Malaysia's king, Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah, named Mr. Anwar, 75, as the nation's tenth leader after expressing satisfaction that he is the candidate who is likely to have majority support. “I will take on this responsibility entrusted to me with humility and responsibility,” Mr. Anwar tweeted, after taking his oath of office in…
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Neil Armstrong took his historic “one small step” on the Moon in 1969. And just three years later, the last Apollo astronauts left our celestial neighbour. Since then, hundreds of astronauts have been launched into space but mainly to the Earth-orbiting International Space Station. None has, in fact, ventured more than a few hundred kilometres from Earth. The US-led Artemis programme, however, aims to return humans to the Moon this decade – with Artemis 1 on its way back to Earth as part of its first test flight, going around the Moon.
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Uncertainty and scattered, unconfirmed reports of lockdowns in at least some Beijing districts have fueled demand for food and other supplies, something not seen in the city for months. Residents of some parts of China’s capital were emptying supermarket shelves and overwhelming delivery apps Friday as the city government ordered faster construction of Covid-19 quarantine centers and field hospitals. Uncertainty and scattered, unconfirmed reports of lockdowns in at least some Beijing districts have fueled demand for food and other supplies, something not seen in the city for months. Unus…
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Indonesia Earthquake: 24 people remain missing after the quake caused landslides and building collapses in the West Java town of Cianjur. The death toll from an earthquake that shook Indonesia's main island of Java this week has risen to 310, the country's national disaster mitigation agency said Friday. The agency's chief Suharyanto, who like many Indonesians goes by one name, said 24 people remain missing after the quake caused landslides and building collapses in the West Java town of Cianjur.
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King Charles III: King Charles "tore the sink off the wall" in frustration after losing his cufflink down the plughole. King Charles' "temper" has been detailed in a new book by royal author Christopher Andersen who revealed that monarch has broken things when he has been extremely angry. King Charles "tore the sink off the wall" in frustration after losing his cufflink down the plughole, Christopher Andersen claimed. “He threw a chair through a window, someone else's window as well. He destroyed a sink because he lost a cufflink down the drain. One of the most shocking things I read in the…
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Read MoreBeijing, Nov 28. China will be sending a three-person crew to its space station, which is nearing completion, and also announced on Monday plans for a manned mission to the Moon amid intensifying competition with the US. The Shenzhou-15 crewed spaceship will be launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in northwest China on Tuesday, the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) announced. The spaceship will take three astronauts -- Fei Junlong, Deng Qingming, and Zhang Lu -- to carry out the spaceflight mission. Fei will be the commander of the mission, Ji Qiming, assistant to the direct…
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Hawaii’s Mauna Loa, the largest active volcano in the world, has erupted for the first time in nearly 40 years, the U.S. authorities said, as emergency crews went on alert early Monday. Flows of lava remained “contained” within the summit caldera of Mauna Loa, but the eruption could pose a threat to nearby residents should conditions change, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported at 11:45 pm local time Sunday (9:45 GMT Monday) some 15 minutes after the eruption inside Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.
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Foxconn's flagship iPhone plant in China is set to see a further reduction in November shipments after the latest bout of worker unrest this week, a source with direct knowledge of the matter said on Friday, as thousands of employees quit. The world's largest Apple iPhone factory has been grappling with strict COVID-19 restrictions that have fuelled discontent among workers and disrupted production ahead of Christmas and January's Lunar New Year holiday, as many workers were either put into isolation or fled the plant. Following Wednesday's escalation that saw workers clash with securit…
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Read MoreBeijing, Nov 26. China held a meeting this week with 19 countries from the Indian Ocean region in which India was conspicuously absent. The China International Development Cooperation Agency (CIDCA), an organisation connected with the Chinese Foreign Ministry held a meeting of the China-Indian Ocean Region Forum on Development Cooperation on November 21, in which 19 countries took part, according to a press release issued by the organisation. The meeting was held in a hybrid manner under the theme of "Shared Development: Theory and Practice from the Perspective of the Blue Economy" in K…
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Some 2,500 naked volunteers have posed in the early morning light on Sydney's Bondi Beach for an artwork designed to raise awareness of skin cancer. The installation is American photographer Spencer Tunick's latest project, aimed at encouraging Australians to get regular skin checks. Legislation was changed to allow public nudity on the beach for the first time. Australia is the country in the world worst affected by skin cancer, the World Cancer Research Fund says. From 3:30 local time, volunteers gathered on the beach to take part in the installation, done in collaboration with …
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Beijing: Rare public protests opposing China's stringent Covid lockdowns intensified in the country, while coronavirus cases continue to rise sharply with close to 40,000 infections reported on Sunday. Chinese social media and Twitter have many videos of public protests, including a mass demonstration in Shanghai where people in a rare display of anger shouted slogans against the ruling Communist Party of China (CPC) and President Xi Jinping. Many protesters were reportedly being arrested. There are also videos of protests from various university campuses where students came out in the open t…
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Iranian bank manager who served a lady who was not wearing a head covering has been sacked as protests over the requirement to cover one's head rock the Islamic Republic. The 80 million nation has a legislation requiring women to cover their heads, necks, and hair, which is upheld by the morality police. Mahsa Amini, 22, was killed on September 16 while being held by morality police for allegedly breaking dress code regulations. This led to widespread protests that the government has labelled "riots." Mehr news agency reported that the bank manager in Qom province, near Tehran, "had …
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A new day, and a new piece of news about Elon Musk, Twitter's new chief. Musk, the man who just bought Twitter Inc for $44 billion, is now ready to compete against tech giants Google and Apple Inc but there's a catch. On Saturday a Twitter user asked, "If Apple & Google boot Twitter from their app stores, @elonmusk should produce his own smartphone. Half the country would happily ditch the biased, snooping iPhone & Android. The man builds rockets to Mars, a silly little smartphone should be easy, right?" Following which, Musk replied: "I certainly hope it does not come to that, but, yes, if…
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Read MoreBeijing, Nov 28. The protests against COVID-19 lockdowns have spread to Beijing even as China reported close to 40,000 coronavirus cases on Monday as authorities scrambled to contain the fresh surge in infections. For the fifth consecutive day, China reported close to 4,000 cases in the capital city of Beijing. China’s National Health Commission said 39,452 new cases were reported on Monday, including 36,304 local asymptomatic cases. Meanwhile, the protests which broke out in the eastern metropolis of Shanghai during the weekend, have spread to Beijing where hundreds of people converged on…
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Read MoreBeijing: Chinese universities are sending students home as the ruling Communist Party tightens anti-virus controls and tries to prevent more protests after crowds angered by its severe 'zero COVID' restrictions called for President Xi Jinping to resign in the biggest show of public dissent in decades. With police out in force, there was no word of protests on Tuesday in Beijing, Shanghai or other major cities. Some anti-virus restrictions were eased Monday in a possible effort to defuse public anger following the weekend protests in at least eight cities. But the ruling party affirmed its zer…
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The FIFA World Cup 2022 will take place in Qatar from November 21 through December 18, according to the schedule that has been amended below. For the 2017 World Cup, 32 nations are prepared to compete against one another. This is the first time that Arab nations have hosted an international men’s football championship. The FIFA 2022 World Cup’s inaugural game will take place in Al Bayt Stadium on November 20, 2022, at 15:30. The Lusail Iconic Stadium will host the FIFA World Cup 2022 final on December 18. On September 27 at 11:00 CEST, 12:00 noon Doha time, ticket sales for the FIFA World Cu…
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Nearly 500 million WFor the unversed, over 2 billion people use WhatsApp internationally. The threat actor asserts that around 32 million US user records are included in the stolen data collection. Similar to Egypt, 35 million users in Italy, 29 million in Saudi Arabia, 20 million in France, and 20 million in Turkey are all affected. According to reports, the database contains the phone numbers of over 11 million UK nationals and about 10 million Russians. The hacker is reportedly selling these datasets on the dark web, according to the reports. WhatsApp users' phone numbers are available …
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New Delhi, Nov 29 Israeli director and IFFI international jury chairperson Nadav Lapid was at the centre of furious debate on Tuesday for his comments on “The Kashmir Files” with Israel’s ambassador saying he abused India’s invitation and jury members distancing themselves from his views. As controversy grew, a day after the director described the “The Kashmir Files” as "propaganda" and “vulgar”, BJP leaders, actors such as Anupam Kher and Ranvir Shorey and the film’s director Vivek Agnihotri also joined the discourse against him. There were some voices, including from the Congress and …
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Read MoreFree Fire players are always looking to get their hands on premium and exclusive in-game cosmetics. Individuals seek to add more items to their collections so they can flaunt the same on the battlefield. However, because most users are free-to-play, they often don't want to spend real money to get various items. This drives them to seek alternatives that can provide rewards at no cost, and redeem codes are one of the best options. These particular codes get released occasionally for the different servers in the game. Gamers can visit the Rewards Redemption Site to claim them and get fre…
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China's hospitals are already under so much pressure, following the country's rapid 180-degree shift in Covid policy that doctors and nurses could be infecting patients. It seems frontline medical workers are being told to come in even if they have the virus themselves because of staff shortages. A Chinese professor specialising in health policy has been monitoring the crisis in his home country from Yale University in the United States. Chen Xi told the BBC that he has been speaking to hospital directors and other medical staff in China about the massive strains on the system right …
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Read MoreWashington, Dec 1. The United States is looking forward to supporting India's G-20 presidency next year, the White House said on Wednesday. India formally takes over the presidency of the group of the world's richest economies on Thursday. "We look forward to supporting India's G20 presidency next year on a range of issues, including addressing current food and energy security challenges while continuing our efforts to build a resilient global economy," White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters at her daily news conference.
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Russia is now using nuclear-capable missiles with non-explosive warheads to exhaust Ukraine's air defences, the Ukrainian military has said. It displayed what it said were fragments of Soviet-made X-55 cruise missiles - designed for nuclear use - found in Ukraine's two western regions. The rockets are being launched to "exhaust the air-defence system of our country," a Ukrainian official said. He said tests on the fragments did not show abnormal levels of radioactivity. Ukrainian military experts say Russia may have significantly depleted its vast missile arsenal after carrying ou…
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Former American golfer Paige Spiranac is known for her love for football and she has been enjoying the ongoing FIFA World Cup 2022 to the fullest. At the same time, she has admitted that she was not always much of a football fan. But the love for Protugal star and one of the GOATs in the sport Cristiano Ronaldo has brought her closer to the 'beautiful sport'. To celebrate the festival of football that is the World Cup and show her love for Ronaldo, Paige has done something which has come out of the blue. She posted a video recently where she was seen celebrating a goal like Ronaldo but with a…
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US-based scientist, Andrew Huff, who worked at a controversial research lab in China's Wuhan, has said that COVID-19 was a "man-made virus" that leaked from the facility. COVID was leaked from Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), a state-run and funded research facility, two years ago, news agency ANI reported quoting an article published in the New York Post. The article mentioned US-based researcher Andrew Huff's statement in the British newspaper The Sun. Moneycontrol could not independently verify these reports. In Huff's latest book, "The Truth About Wuhan," he claims that the pan…
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Read MoreIsrael military said the troops shot at while carrying out a raid to arrest three wanted individuals and returned fire. Israeli forces shot and killed a 16 year-old Palestine girl during a raid in the volatile city of Jenin on Sunday, the Palestine Health Ministry said, as the wave of violence in the occupied West Bank this year continued. The Israeli military said it was aware of reports of the girl's death and the incident was under review.
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Three women including a friend of Italy's new prime minister were killed when a man opened fire at a cafe in Rome, injuring four other people. Those inside were meeting as part of a local block's residents' committee. Roberto Gualtieri, mayor of Rome, described the shooting as a "grave episode of violence" and said he would attend an emergency meeting on Monday. A suspect, 57, is in custody. He has a history of disputes with some of the committee's board, reports say. Luciana Ciorba, the committee's vice-president, was at the cafe in the Fidene district, Italy's La Repubblica news…
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The American space agency Nasa has brought home its next-generation astronaut ship after a near-26-day mission to orbit the Moon. The Orion capsule splashed down in the Pacific Ocean after a fiery re-entry into Earth's atmosphere and a descent that was further slowed by parachutes. Because this was a test, there were no people aboard this time, but that will change for the next flight. Nasa is planning ever more complex missions with Orion. These will likely start in late 2024 and include, in 2025 or 2026, an attempt to put humans back on the lunar surface. This was last achiev…
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Read MoreIslamabad, Dec 13. Pakistan's brain drain situation has aggravated with more than 7,60,000 educated youth seeking employment overseas this year mainly because of the uncertain economic and political situation in the country, according to a media report on Tuesday. According to documents available with The Express Tribune, 7,65,000 people left Pakistan in 2022, nearly triple the 2,25,000 departures in 2021 and 2,88,000 in 2020. This year’s data also includes 92,000 highly-educated people such as doctors, engineers, information technology experts and accountants leaving the nation.
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New Zealand will phase in a near-total tobacco ban from next year. Legislation passed by parliament on Tuesday means that anyone born after 2008 will never be able to buy cigarettes or tobacco products. It will mean the number of people able to buy tobacco will shrink each year. By 2050, for example, 40-year-olds will be too young to buy cigarettes. Health Minister Ayesha Verrall, who introduced the bill, said it was a step "towards a smoke-free future". "Thousands of people will live longer, healthier lives and the health system will be NZ$5 billion (US$3.2 billion) better off fr…
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विदेश मंत्री एस जयशंकर की यह प्रतिक्रिया तब आई, जब पाकिस्तान के विदेश मंत्री बिलावल भुट्टो ने यूएनएससी में भारत की दिसंबर की अध्यक्षता के तहत सुधारित बहुपक्षवाद के लिए नई ओरिएंटेशन पर बहस के लिए बुलाई गई बैठक के दौरान कश्मीर का मुद्दा उठाया। विदेश मंत्री एस जयशंकर ने संयुक्त राष्ट्र सुरक्षा परिषद में चीन और पाकिस्तान को जमकर लताड़ लगाई है। विदेश मंत्री जयशंकर ने कहा कि आतंकवाद के अपराधियों को सही ठहराने और उनकी मदद करने के लिए बहुपक्षीय मंचों का गलत तरीके से इस्तेमाल किया जा रहा है। UNSC में 'अंतरराष्ट्रीय शांति और सुरक्षा और न्यू ओरिएंटेशन फॉर रिफॉर्म्ड मल्टीलेटरलिज्म' विषय पर खुली बहस के दौरान विदेश मंत्री जयशंकर ने कह…
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Argentina football team are getting ready to face defending champions France in the FIFA World Cup 2022 final on Sunday (December 18). One of the keys to Argentina’s hopes of winning the World Cup for the third time will rest on their talisman Lionel Messi. However, Messi – who is going to possibly play his final World Cup match – is now an injury concern for Argentina as he was seen clutching his hamstring multiple times in the World Cup semifinal win over Croatia this week. Messi and the rest of Argentina’s starting line-up were absent from training on Thursday (December 15) amid concern…
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At least 16 people have been killed and more remain missing after a landslide enveloped a campsite in Malaysia's Selangor state, officials say. Campers were sleeping in their tents when a landslide occurred around 03:00 Friday (19:00 GMT Thursday) at the farm stay in Batang Kali township. More than 90 people - including children - had been camped at the base. Hundreds of rescuers were at the scene on Friday morning wading through mud to try to find survivors. The landslide began up a slope more than 30m (100ft) higher than the campsite, and rolled through an acre of land. Pictu…
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The Thai King's eldest daughter collapsed from a heart condition on Wednesday evening, Thailand's royal palace says. Princess Bajrakitiyabha, the eldest daughter of King Vajiralongkorn, collapsed while training her dogs north-east of Bangkok, the palace said. The 44-year-old was taken to a nearby hospital, then taken by helicopter to Bangkok, where she is being treated. The palace described her condition last night as "stable to a certain extent". Medical bulletins from the royal palace in Thailand are typically vague and cryptic, and from the single statement issued about Princes…
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China rushed to install hospital beds across cities and build fever screening clinics amid a surge in covid cases in the country. Now, as the virus sweeps through a country of 1.4 billion people who lack natural immunity having been shielded for so long, there is growing concern about possible deaths, virus mutations and the impact, again, on the economy. United States said Beijing's surprise decision to let coronavirus run free was a concern for the world. “We know that any time the virus is spreading, that it is in the wild, that it has the potential to mutate and to pose a threat to peopl…
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Read MoreBEIJING: China's National Health Commission (NHC) stopped publishing daily COVID-19 data on Sunday, amid doubts about their reliability as infections have exploded in the wake of an abrupt easing of tough restrictions. "Relevant COVID information will be published by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention for reference and research," the commission said in a statement, without specifying the reasons for the change or how frequently China CDC will update COVID information. The NHC's halt to reporting daily infection and death totals comes as concerns grow around the lack o…
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New Delhi: One of the biggest Twitter data breaches has resulted in the selling of 400 million Twitter users' personal information on the dark web. Elon Musk may be confronted by a breach of this magnitude after he slammed Twitter's operations and rules. The DPC has already started looking into the previous breach that impacted more than 5.4 million users. In late November, the previous breach was discovered. The hacker released a sample of the data on one of the hacker sites as evidence that the data is real. Email, username, follower count, creation date, and, in some situations, the use…
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Read MoreAt least 38 deaths have now been linked to a severe Arctic freeze that continues to pummel the US and Canada. Officials say 34 people died across the US, with the worst-hit area being the city of Buffalo, in New York state. Four fatalities occurred in Canada when a bus rolled over on an icy road near the town of Merritt, in the western province of British Columbia. The storm has wreaked havoc for days but power has been steadily restored after earlier blackouts. Fewer than 200,000 customers were without power as of Sunday afternoon EDT, down from a peak of 1.7 million, the Associa…
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According to the Shandong blood center, the stock of blood group A and O have been kept at red alert level for several days. Multiple regions across China have called on residents to actively donate blood under strict personal protection guidelines as they face a shortage of blood caused by many factors, including the Covid-19 pandemic and prolonged cold weather, The Global Times reported. Due to an increase in the number of hospital outpatient and surgical patients as well as optimised measures, Jinan with the most concentrated medical resources in the province is facing unprecedented pres…
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Read MoreChinese officials estimate about 250 million people were infected with Covid-19 in the first 20 days of December, Financial Times reported citing people familiar with the matter. Some 37 million people in China may have been infected with COVID-19 on a single day this week, UK-based Financial Times (FT) reported, as Beijing discontinued restrictions that had contained the virus since the start of the pandemic. Chinese officials estimate about 250 million people were infected with Covid-19 in the first 20 days of December, Financial Times reported citing people familiar with the matter. …
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This security alert comes two days after a suicide bombing in the capital killed a policeman and wounded six others, the Dawn newspaper reported. In its security alert, the US embassy said it was "aware of information that unknown individuals are possibly plotting to attack Americans at the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad sometime during the holidays". The United States embassy in Islamabad has prohibited its staff from visiting the federal capital`s Marriott Hotel, citing concerns of a "possible attack". “US government staff prohibited from visiting Islamabad`s Marriott Hotel du a security aler…
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Read MoreInternational travel is again a victim as coronavirus cases show a sudden spurt in several countries. The winter months and the holiday season have combined to make things worse. Here are 7 foreign countries with high Covid-19 cases that you can avoid travelling to as of now. After nearly two years of Covid-19 induced restrictions, the world had started gradually to move back to normal. Travel, especially international travel, that had to be put on hold was also back on the cards for tourists. But unfortunately, a recent surge in Covid-cases, propelled by Omicron sub-variants in many case…
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Chinese people have rushed to book overseas travel after Beijing announced it would reopen its borders next month. Passport applications for Chinese citizens wishing to travel internationally will resume from 8 January, the immigration administration said. It follows an announcement on Monday that ended almost three years of strict quarantine rules for arrivals. Travel sites have since reported a spike in traffic. But Chinese tourists will not have unfettered access to all countries. Officials in the US are considering new restrictions on travellers from China due to concerns a…
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Read MoreNew Delhi/Noida, Dec 29 The manufacturing of Marion Biotech’s Dok-1 Max has stopped “for now”, the company’s legal representative said on Thursday as the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation began a probe in connection with the death of 18 children in Uzbekistan allegedly linked to the cough syrup. Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said further action would be taken based on the inspection of the pharma company, under a cloud after the Uzbekistan health ministry’s allegation that the children died after consuming Dok-1 Max. Marion Biotech does not sell Dok-1 Max in India an…
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Brazil has woken up to its first day without footballing legend Pele. "The King", who won three World Cups and was widely considered the greatest footballer of all time, died at the age of 82 in Sao Paulo on Thursday. Overnight, Pele's face shone on buildings across the South American nation and landmarks were lit up in his memory. Fans took to the streets dressed in his iconic number 10 shirt. Brazil's government has declared three days of national mourning. Fans started gathering outside Sao Paulo's Albert Einstein hospital on Thursday afternoon when they heard news of Pele's de…
1 year, 6 months ago
Read MoreIn a shocking incident, an inebriated male passenger urinated on a female co-passenger on Air India's flight from the United States to India. The female passenger, a senior citizen, was travelling on the business class of the Air India flight from John F Kennedy international airport in New York to IGI Airport in Delhi. Tata-owned Air India has now lodged a police complaint regarding the incident which took place on November 26, 2022, an airline official told ANI. As per the Air India official, after the complaint was received, Air India constituted an internal committee in this incident and …
1 year, 6 months ago
Read MoreIn December, Chinese pop singer Jane Zhang deliberately infected herself with the coronavirus. It created a furore as the country continues to battle the surge in infections. But Zhang is not alone. It turns out many young Chinese are self-infecting. Zhang met “sheep”, a term used for virus carriers in the mainland, toward the end of December so that she would not miss her New Year’s concert. Chinese millennials and zoomers have similar reasons. The 40-day period of the Lunar New Year travel is around and as China has done away with its stringent zero-COVID policy after three years, many d…
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Washington News: US President Joe Biden has declared an emergency in California as winter storms continue to pummel the most populous state in the country. According to a statement released by the White House late Monday, Biden has ordered federal assistance to supplement California, tribal and local response efforts due to the emergency conditions resulting from successive and severe winter storms, flooding and mudslides. The federal emergency declaration will authorize the Department of Homeland Security and Federal Emergency Management Agency to coordinate all disaster relief efforts. O…
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On Sunday, Khatiwada, 44, was the co-pilot on a Yeti Airlines flight from Kathmandu that crashed as it approached the city of Pokhara, killing at least 68 people in the Himalayan nation's deadliest plane accident in three decades. In 2010, Anju Khatiwada joined Nepal's Yeti Airlines, following in the footsteps of her husband, a pilot who had died in a crash four years earlier when a small passenger plane he was flying for the domestic carrier went down minutes before landing. On Sunday, Khatiwada, 44, was the co-pilot on a Yeti Airlines flight from Kathmandu that crashed as it approached th…
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A Goa-bound chartered flight from Russian capital Moscow with 240 passengers on board was diverted to Uzbekistan in the wee hours of Saturday (January 21) following a bomb threat, police said. The flight was scheduled to land at the Dabolim airport in South Goa at 4.15 am, a senior police official said.The flight (AZV2463) operated by Azur Air was diverted before it entered the Indian air space, he said. "It was diverted after an email was received at 12.30 am by the Dabolim airport director that mentioned about a bomb being planted on the plane," the official said. This is the second such…
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Read MoreIslamabad, Jan 23 Pakistan faced a major power breakdown on Monday due to a "frequency variation" in the national grid, leaving millions of people in large parts of the country, including capital Islamabad and financial hub Karachi, without electricity. According to the Ministry of Energy, the system of frequency of the national grid went down at 7:34 am local time, resulting in the breakdown. “System maintenance work is progressing rapidly,” it tweeted.
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Read MoreCalifornia: Eight people died and many left injured in separate shooting incidents reported in three US cities on Tuesday. The most recent of the many shootings occurred in the Californian community of Half Moon Bay, where four people died and three others suffered life-threatening injuries. Authorities and local lawmakers, adding that a man suspected in the killings is currently under custody. According to Josh Becker, Representative of California state said that the killings took place in separate shootings on the outskirts of Half Moon Bay, a city about 30 miles south of San Francisco. …
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Read MoreIslamabad, Jan 25 Pakistani authorities on Wednesday arrested Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party senior leader Fawad Chaudhry, hours after he publicly censured the government for scheming to arrest party chairman Imran Khan. Fawad, a close aide of ousted prime minister Khan, was taken into custody from his residence in Lahore after a case was registered against him at Kohsar Police Station on the complaint of the Secretary Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP). “This imported government has gone berserk,” PTI leader Farrukh Habib tweeted.
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Wellington: Four people were killed in rain-related incidents as torrential rainfall caused widespread flooding in New Zealand's Auckland city. The record rainfall and severe weather in Auckland since Friday has caused massive flooding across the country's largest city, Xinhua News Agency reported. While clear-up and damage assessment works have been underway, severe weather is continuing in the region. Civil Defence has put Heavy Rain Watch for Auckland from Sunday morning through until Monday morning. The country's national meteorological service, MetService said that another weather …
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Read MoreIslamabad, Feb 4 Pakistan has blocked Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, after it refused to remove offensive or blasphemous material, according to media reports on Saturday. The blacklisting of Wikipedia comes days after the Pakistan Telecom Authority (PTA) degraded Wikipedia services for 48 hours, threatening to block it if the content deemed ‘blasphemous’ was not deleted, The News newspaper reported. When a PTA spokesperson was contacted late on Friday night and inquired about the blocking of Wikipedia, the official confirmed that “yes” it had been blocked, it said.
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Read MoreLondon, Feb 3 A British Sikh man who wanted to "assassinate" Queen Elizabeth II on Christmas Day in 2021 and was caught on the grounds of Windsor Castle armed with a crossbow on Friday admitted to committing treason. Jaswant Singh Chail, who identified himself as an “Indian Sikh”, wanted to kill the late monarch as revenge for the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre in Amritsar in a social media video that emerged soon after his arrest. Chail, 21, admitted to an offence under the United Kingdom’s Treason Act at the Old Bailey court in London. He is the first person in the UK to be convicted …
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An Indian-American Neal Mohan will be the next Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of YouTube after Susan Wojcicki announced her resignation citing personal reasons. Taking to Twitter, YouTube Creators informed about Wojcicki's resignation and thanked her for contributing to the online video-sharing platform. Neal Mohan is currently the Chief Product Officer of YouTube. Before joining YouTube, Mohan was the Senior Vice President, Display and Video Ads at Google. In a blog post, Wojcicki said that she will focus on family, health, and personal projects she is passionate about.
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Pervez Musharraf, the former Pakistan President, died after a prolonged illness on Sunday (February 5, 2023). Musharraf, the four-star general who ruled Pakistan for nearly a decade after seizing power in a bloodless coup in 1999, died aged 79 and breathed his last at a hospital in Dubai. He was in the United Arab Emirates city for medical treatment since 2016. Earlier last year, Musharraf was hospitalized due to a complication of his ailment Amyloidosis. "Going through a difficult stage where recovery is not possible and organs are malfunctioning. Pray for ease in his daily living," …
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Ankara: At least 5 people have died after a powerful earthquake, measuring 7.8 on the Richter Scale, jolted central Turkey early on Monday and was followed by another strong temblor. The earthquake was centred about 33 kilometers (20 miles) from Gaziantep, a major city and provincial capital. It was about 26 kilometers (16 miles) from the town of Nurdagi. It was centred 18 kilometres (11 miles) deep, according to the US Geological Survey. The tremors were felt in Lebanon, Syria and Cyprus, according to Turkey media reports. The southern region of Gaziantep - one of Turkey's key industrial …
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Read MoreNew Delhi, Feb 6 Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly will begin a two-day visit to India on Monday to hold wide-ranging talks with her Indian counterpart S Jaishankar. The talks between the two foreign ministers will be held on Monday evening, officials said. Besides ways to boost bilateral ties, the two sides are also expected to focus on cooperation in the Indo-Pacific in the backdrop of growing global concern over China's increasing military muscle-flexing in the region.
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As of writing this report, the number of people killed in the terrible earthquake that hit Turkey-Syria has exceeded 4000. The magnitude 7.8 earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria on Monday is likely to be one of the deadliest this decade, seismologists said, with a more than 100 km (62 miles) rupture between the Anatolian and Arabian plates. Here is what happened beneath the earth's surface and what to expect in the aftermath. Turkey Earthquake: The Epicentre The epicentre was about 26 km east of the Turkish city of Nurdagi at a depth of about 18 km on the East Anatolian Fault. The quake …
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After rolling out Twitter Blue with verification service in India that starts from Rs 650 a month, Elon Musk has reiterated that all legacy Blue badges will be removed soon. Musk has time and again said that the company will remove all Blue checks, as it gets busy monetising its platform by charging users. "Legacy blue checks will be removed soon. Those are the ones that are truly corrupt," he reiterated in a tweet. Earlier this month, the Twitter CEO had said that all legacy verified accounts will soon lose their Blue badges as those are `deeply corrupted`. "Twitter`s legacy Blue Verified…
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London: High Commission of India in the United Kingdom reached out to the students who were believed to be trapped in modern slavery. Reacting to a report by the United Kingdom's government agency for labour exploitation, the Indian High Commissioner asked the victims to reach out to them for help and counselling. "We were concerned to read this news. Indian students who have suffered this, please contact us at pol3.london@mea.gov.in, and we will provide help/counselling. We assure you of confidentiality in our response," the Indian High Commission tweeted. Nearly 50 students victims of…
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TORONTO: Strongly condemning the defacing of a Hindu temple in Canada, India on Wednesday asked authorities in the country to investigate the incident and take swift action against the perpetrators. The Ram Mandir in Mississauga city was vandalised with anti-India slogans, sending shockwaves across the Indian community. "We strongly condemn the defacing of Ram Mandir in Mississauga with anti-India graffiti. We have requested Canadian authorities to investigate the incident and take prompt action on perpetrators," the Consulate General of India in Toronto tweeted early on Wednesday. The inc…
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Suva (Fiji), Feb 16 External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and President of Fiji Wiliame Katonivere on Thursday jointly inaugurated the USD 1.3 million solarisation project, largely funded by India, in this South Pacific nation. They together launched the 'Solarisation of Pacific Heads of State Residences project' (under Solarisation of Head of State) at the Fiji State House. "Pleased to be called on H.E. Ratu Wiliame Katonivere, President of Fiji in State House in Suva. Jointly inaugurated the Solarization of the State House. This is the first of a series that India is supporting in th…
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Twitter has become all about Elon Musk. In October 2022, Musk acquired the platform for $44 billion, and since then, Musk is all about Twitter and Twitter is all about Musk. In fact, it won't be really wrong to say that Musk is obsessed with Twitter, so much so that he wants users to see all his tweets on their timelines, every time they open the app or scroll through it. In a recent instance, his obsession with Twitter forced Twitter engineers to work overnight and build a special system that will highlight Musk's tweets more than ever. Just recently, both Musk and US President Joe Biden…
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Arkabutla: Six people were fatally shot Friday (Feb 17) at multiple locations in a small town in rural Mississippi near the Tennessee state line, and authorities blamed a lone suspect who was arrested and charged with murder. Mississippi Department of Public Safety spokesperson Bailey Martin confirmed the killings in Arkabutla, in Tate County, to The Associated Press. County Sheriff Brad Lance told local news outlets the killings occurred at a convenience store and two homes. Trucks marked as belonging to the sheriff's office and Tate County search and rescue were parked outside the store,…
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Read MoreKarachi, Feb 16 Eight Heavily-armed Pakistani Taliban militants on Friday stormed the Karachi Police chief's office in the country's most populous city, sparking gunfire that killed two rebels and two others, the latest brazen assault on security forces amid an uptick in terror attacks across the country. The attack took place around 7:10 pm local time. A spokesperson of the Karachi Police confirmed in a statement that the Karachi police chief’s head office had come under attack.
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Read MoreA woman escaped a man who'd held her captive for a year by running into a New Jersey gas station and locking herself in, the New Jersey Attorney General's office said. In a statement, Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and Colonel Patrick J. Callahan, superintendent of the New Jersey State Police announced that they arrested and charged James W. Parrillo Jr., 57, with kidnapping. Security video obtained by NBC Philadelphia showed the woman running into the gas station and locking the door on February 7. Parrillo is seen following her but leaves when he realizes the door is locked. "…
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In a sign of India's diplomacy coming of age, it has managed to convince the major world powers that its pursuit of self-interest will guide its diplomatic and strategic priorities while it will stick to a principled position that calls for peace. India balanced its need to retain ties with its old ally Russia with the necessity of protecting a growing security partnership with the US and other Western countries due to the threat from China.
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Read MoreTransfers of funds will now be possible using just mobile phones due to the tie-up between India's Unified Payments Interface (UPI) and Singapore's facility. India and Singapore launched on Tuesday a real-time link to facilitate easier cross border money transfers between one of the world's biggest recipients of remittances and an Asian financial powerhouse. Transfers of funds will now be possible using just mobile phones due to the tie-up between India's Unified Payments Interface (UPI) and Singapore's facility. Such cross-border transfer arrangements typically lower costs of payments. …
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From trade to economy to geopolitics, the one year of Russia's invasion of Ukraine had far-reaching implications on India and the world. India maintained a deft balance between the western powers and Russia as it charted its own path of neutrality throughout the conflict. It also suffered the fiscal implications of the war, just like the rest of the world, with inflation staying above RBI's tolerance band for most part of the year.
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This morning, Cornwall experienced an earthquake that was reportedly felt by locals as a "rumble". The seismic activity occurred around 6:31 am, approximately 9.3 kilometres south of Redruth. According to reports from both VolcanoDiscovery and the British Geological Survey, the earthquake that occurred in Cornwall this morning had a magnitude of 1.5 on the Richter scale. Although it was a relatively minor quake, it was recorded at a depth of two kilometres. Reports suggest that the tremors were felt as far away as Portleve, approximately 14 miles from the epicentre. Residents of the city sh…
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A gruesome death is sending shockwaves across Hong Kong, a city known for its safety and low crime rates. The 28-year-old socialite and model, Abby Choi, met her untimely end over what was believed to be a luxury apartment she had bought under the name of her former father-in-law. When she planned to sell the 1,820 square foot flat, purchased for over HK$70 million ($8.9 million) in late 2019, the family reportedly objected and allegedly murdered her. To local residents’ horror, the killers Choi’s ex-husband—Alex Kwong and former in-laws Kwong Kau and Jenny Li allegedly used the recipe …
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In Greece, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has said the rail disaster which claimed at least 43 lives was due to a human error. He spoke after visiting the site of Tuesday night's head-on collision between a passenger service and a freight train. The local stationmaster has been charged with manslaughter. The Greek transport minister has resigned. Rescue teams are continuing to search for survivors. The passenger train carrying some 350 people collided with a freight train as it emerged from a tunnel after leaving the town of Larissa. It is still unclear why the two services were runnin…
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The UN human rights office Thursday said any submissions made by representatives of the so-called "United States of Kailasa (USK)", founded by Indian fugitive Nithyananda, at its public meetings in Geneva last week were "irrelevant" and will not be considered in the final outcome drafts. Confirming the participation of the so-called "USK representatives" at two of its public meetings - registration to which was open to everyone, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), however, said they were prevented from distributing promotional material and their "tangential" speec…
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London, Mar 5 Stepping up his attack on the BJP government, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has alleged that the structures of Indian democracy are under "brutal attack" and there is a full-scale assault on the institutions of the country. The Opposition leader, who is in London as part of a UK tour, told reporters here that there are conversations ongoing within the Opposition to unite around an alternative vision for the country and act upon an "undercurrent of anger" over pressing issues such as unemployment, price rise, the concentration of wealth and violence against women. The 52-yea…
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Lahore, Mar 5 A team of Islamabad police on Sunday reached Lahore residence of ousted prime minister Imran Khan to arrest him in the Toshakhana case, but returned after assurance from his legal team that he will appear before the court on March 7. Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) vice chairman and former foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said there is no mention of "arrest" in the warrants as an Islamabad sessions court has asked him to appear before it on March 7 in the Toshakhana case. The 70-year-old cricketer-turned politician, who has been recovering from a gunshot injury from a…
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ISLAMABAD: Former Pakistan Prime Minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan has said the Shehbaz Sharif government has now lodged 76 cases against him after two more cases were registered against him. The cricketer-turned-politician took to Twitter and tweeted, “Now on 76th case against me. Well on my way to a century of cases, with the latest case of treason filed against me for highlighting Dirty Harry’s use of torture & other human rights abuses.” According to the Pakistani media, two more cases have been registered against the PTI chief in Islamabad and Quetta on M…
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In Germany, several people have been killed and many others injured after a shooting in Hamburg city. The shooting took place at a Jehovah's Witnesses Kingdom Hall in the Gross Borstel district last night. A police spokesperson said, all the dead have gunshot wounds, without confirming the exact number of victims. Meanwhile, German media reports that at least seven people were killed and a number of people were also injured in the shooting. The reasons behind the shooting are still unclear. Jehovah's Witness is a Christian-based religious movement founded in the USA towards the en…
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Newly-elected President of Nepal Ram Chandra Paudel took the oath of office and secrecy today at Sheetal Niwas in Kathmandu. The Office of the President hosted a special ceremony at Sheetal Niwas to administer the oath to President-elect Paudel, after which political leaders, dignitaries and ambassadors of different countries in Nepal came to congratulate the new President. Ram Chandra Paudel, veteran Nepali congress leader, was elected the President of Nepal by the electoral college on March 9 defeating Subash Chandra Nembang. Acting Chief Justice of Nepal Hari Krishna Karki administered …
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In France, Police clashed with protesters yesterday after President Emmanuel Macron decided to force through his controversial pension reform without calling a vote in France's lower house of parliament. Thousands of people protested the move on the streets of Paris and other French cities. In Paris, police used tear gas and water cannon to clear protesters who demonstrated outside of parliament. Local media reported that at least 120 people were detained. President Emmanuel Macron used a constitutional power enabling the government to bypass lawmakers. The decision was made just a few …
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Read MoreIslamabad, Mar 22 A strong 6.8 magnitude earthquake with the epicentre in Afghanistan shook Pakistan, killing at least nine people in the country and injuring over 160 others, authorities said on Wednesday. Two persons were also killed in Afghanistan, the Associated Press reported. The earthquake's epicentre was Afghanistan's Hindu Kush region, while its depth was 180 kilometres, according to the Pakistan Meteorological Department. Tremors were also felt in many parts of north India, including the Delhi-National Capital Region.
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The International Criminal Court (ICC) this week issued an arrest warrant against Russian President Vladimir Putin, accusing him of the war crime of illegally deporting hundreds of children from Ukraine. In its first warrant for Ukraine, the ICC called for Putin's arrest on suspicion of unlawful deportation of children and unlawful transfer of people from the territory of Ukraine to the Russian Federation since February 24, 2022. "Hundreds of Ukrainian children have been taken from orphanages and children’s homes to Russia," ICC chief prosecutor Karim Khan said in a statement on Friday (Ma…
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In California, millions of people in the Central and Southern of the state, including Los Angeles under flood warnings as the calamity wreaked havoc in the region. A series of storms have battered the state with snow, floods, landslides, and power outages since December. Flooding forced the closure of sections of the Pacific Coast Highway on Tuesday. The National Weather Service predicted up to 3 inches (7.6 cm) of rain in coastal and valley areas of Southern California, and 6 inches in lower mountain regions. Thousands of people have been evacuated from two small California towns in Tula…
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Read MoreNineteen officers from the three services of the Indian armed forces have reached Sri Lanka yesterday. The Officers are on a week-long strategic study tour under the 46th Higher Air Command Course. The delegation consists of selected officers under training for Senior Command and Staff Appointments from the three services. The Officers will call on Sri Lanka’s Chief of Defence Staff Gen. Shavendra Silva and Commander of Sri Lanka Air Force, Air Marshal Sudarshana Pathirana and Director General of Coast Guard Rear Admiral Pujitha Vithana along with other senior defence officials of Sri Lank…
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Prime Minister of Japan Kishida Fumio arrived in New Delhi this morning for a two day visit to India. He was welcomed by Minister of State for Electronics and IT, Rajeev Chandrashekhar on arrival. This is his second visit to India as Prime Minister. The Japanese Prime Minister is scheduled to hold talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. During the meeting, both sides will discuss bilateral and regional issues of mutual interest. The meeting between the two Prime Ministers is being held at a significant time when India and Japan are holding the Presidencies of the G20 and G7. This visit gi…
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New Delhi, Mar 21 The General Electric's proposal to share technology with India for fighter jet engines is a step in the right direction and both countries can work together to move forward on it, a top American military official said on Tuesday. Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall also said that India and the US are working on an air information sharing agreement and it could be finalised very soon. Kendall, currently on a visit to India, held talks with senior officials of the National Security Council Secretariat, the defence ministry and the external affairs ministry on a rang…
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Google Services including Gmail, YouTube and Google Drive were not accessible for several users in India on Thursday. Downdetector, that tracks outages by collating status reports from a series of sources, including user-submitted errors on its platform has also confirmed that Google services have been hit. It tweeted that user reports indicate Google is having problems since 11:22 AM, Gmail is having problems since 11:22 AM IST and Youtube is having problems since 11:19 AM IST. Meanwhile, Google had yesterday announced that it is opening up access to its ChatGPT competitor "Bard" as an…
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ഇസ്ലാമബാദ് : പാകിസ്ഥൻ മുൻ പ്രധാനമന്ത്രി ഇമ്രാൻ ഖാന് വെടിയേറ്റതായി റിപ്പോർട്ട്. വസീറബാദിൽ വെച്ച് നടന്ന പാകിസ്ഥൻ തെഹ്റീക്ക് ഇ-ഇൻസാഫിന്റെ റാലിക്കിടെയാണ് പാർട്ടി ചെയർമാനായ ഇമ്രാൻ ഖാന് വെടിയേറ്റത്. കാലിന് വെടിയേറ്റ മുൻ പാകിസ്ഥാൻ പ്രധാനമന്ത്രിയെ ആശുപത്രിയിലേക്ക് മാറ്റിയെന്ന് പാക് മാധ്യമങ്ങൾ റിപ്പോർട്ട് ചെയ്യുന്നത്. റാലിയിൽ പങ്കെടുത്ത നാല് പേർക്കേറ്റതായിട്ടാണ് റിപ്പോർട്ട്. സിന്ധ് ഗവർണർ ഇമ്രാൻ ഇസ്മൈയിൽ, പാകിസ്ഥൻ സെനറ്റംഗം ഫൈസൽ ജാവേദ് ഖാൻ ഉൾപ്പെടെയുള്ളവർക്ക് പരിക്കേറ്റതായിട്ടാണ് റിപ്പോർട്ട്. വെടിയുതർത്ത അക്രമിയ പോലീസ് പിടികൂടിയതായിട്ടും റിപ്പോർട്ട് സൂചിപ്പിക്കുന്നു
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Read MoreIndia and Sri Lanka have agreed to jointly build in two stages a 135-megawatt solar power plant in the island nation's eastern port district of Trincomalee to promote renewable energy. Sri Lankan Cabinet has given approval for the project as the country aims to generate 70 per cent of its electricity requirement by 2030 from renewable energy sources. "The National Thermal Power Corporation of India and the Ceylon Electricity Board have entered into an agreement to jointly implement a solar power project in two stages," said a note from the Cabinet meeting held this week.
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113 കിലോമീറ്റർ വേഗതയിൽ വീശിയടിച്ച ചുഴലിക്കാറ്റിൽ വലിയ നാശനഷ്ടങ്ങളാണ് ഉണ്ടായത്. രക്ഷാപ്രവർത്തനത്തിനുള്ള ടീമുകളെ വിന്യസിച്ചതായി മിസിസിപ്പി എമർജൻസി മാനേജ്മെന്റ് ഏജൻസി ട്വിറ്ററിലൂടെ അറിയിച്ചു. യുഎസിലെ മിസിസിപ്പിയിൽ വിവിധ ഭാഗങ്ങളിൽ ശക്തമായ ചുഴലിക്കാറ്റ് വീശി. ചുഴലിക്കാറ്റിനെ തുടർന്ന് മിസിസിപ്പിയിൽ 23 പേരോളം മരിച്ചതായാണ് റിപ്പോർട്ട്. നിരവധി കെട്ടിടങ്ങൾ തകർന്നുവീണു. ചുഴലിക്കാറ്റ് ബാധിത പ്രദേശത്തുള്ളവരെ സഹായിക്കാൻ പ്രാദേശിക, സംസ്ഥാന ഏജൻസികളിൽ നിന്ന് രക്ഷാപ്രവർത്തനത്തിനുള്ള ടീമുകളെ വിന്യസിച്ചതായി മിസിസിപ്പി എമർജൻസി മാനേജ്മെന്റ് ഏജൻസി ട്വിറ്ററിലൂടെ അറിയിച്ചു. രാത്രിയിൽ വീശിയ അതിശക്തമായ ചുഴലിക്കാറ്റിനെ തുടർന്ന് 23 പേർ മരിക്കുകയും നാല് പേരെ കാണാതാവുകയും നിരവധി പേർക്ക് പരിക്ക…
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വാഷിംഗ്ടൺ: നാഷ്വില്ലെയിലെ സ്കൂൾ വെടിവെപ്പിനെ അപലപിച്ച് യുഎസ് പ്രസിഡന്റ് ജോ ബൈഡൻ. ആറ് പേരാണ് വെടിവെപ്പിൽ കൊല്ലപ്പെട്ടത്. ഇതിൽ മൂന്ന് പേർ വിദ്യാർഥികളാണ്. ഹൃദയഭേദകമായ സംഭവമെന്നായിരുന്നു ബൈഡന്റെ പ്രതികരണം. ഇത്തരം സംഭവങ്ങൾ രാജ്യത്തിന്റെ ആത്മാവിനെ കീറിമുറിക്കുകയാണെന്ന് ജോ ബൈഡൻ പറഞ്ഞു. ആയുധ നിരോധന നിയമം ഉടൻ പാസാക്കുമെന്നും ബൈഡൻ വ്യക്തമാക്കി. ആക്രമണ ആയുധ നിരോധനം പാസാക്കണമെന്ന് ജോ ബൈഡൻ കോൺഗ്രസിനോട് ആവശ്യപ്പെടുകയും നാഷ്വില്ലെയിലെ അക്രമിയുടെ പക്കൽ രണ്ട് ആക്രമണ ആയുധങ്ങളും ഒരു പിസ്റ്റളും ഉണ്ടായിരുന്നെന്ന് വ്യക്തമാക്കുകയും ചെയ്തു. തിങ്കളാഴ്ച ടെന്നസിയിലെ നാഷ്വില്ലെയിലെ സ്വകാര്യ ക്രിസ്ത്യൻ സ്കൂളിലുണ്ടായ വെടിവെപ്പിൽ മൂന്ന് വിദ്യാർഥികളും മൂന്ന് ജീവനക്കാരും കൊല്ലപ്പെട്ടിരുന്നു. ബർട്ടൺ ഹില്ലില…
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Read MorePakistani-origin Canadian businessman Tahawwur Rana, sought for his involvement in the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, has approached a US court for a status conference after waiting for an order on his extradition to India for more than 20 months. Rana, 62, a childhood friend of David Coleman Headley, was re-arrested on June 10 in Los Angeles on an extradition request by India for his involvement in the 2008 Mumbai terror attack in which 166 people, including six Americans, were killed. He is a declared fugitive in India. US District Court Judge in Los Angeles Jacqueline Chooljian held the…
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ശ്വാസകോശത്തിലെ അണുബാധയെ തുടർന്ന് ഫ്രാൻസിസ് മാർപാപ്പയെ ആശുപത്രിയിൽ പ്രവേശിപ്പിച്ചതായും ഏതാനും ദിവസം റോമിലെ ആശുപത്രിയിൽ കഴിയേണ്ടിവരുമെന്നും വത്തിക്കാൻ അറിയിച്ചു. 86-കാരനായ ഫ്രാൻസിസ് മാർപ്പാപ്പയ്ക്ക് കഴിഞ്ഞ ദിവസങ്ങളിൽ ശ്വാസതടസ്സം ഉണ്ടായിരുന്നു. അദ്ദേഹത്തിന് കോവിഡ് ഇല്ലെന്നും മാർപ്പാപ്പയുടെ വക്താവ് മാറ്റിയോ ബ്രൂണി മാധ്യമങ്ങള്ക്ക് നല്കിയ പ്രസ്താവനയില് വ്യക്തമാക്കി. ബുധനാഴ്ചയാണ് മാര്പ്പാപ്പയെ ശ്വാസകോശത്തിലെ അണുബാധയെ തുടർന്ന് ആശുപത്രിയിൽ പ്രവേശിപ്പിച്ചത്. സെക്യൂരിറ്റി ഉൾപ്പെടെയുള്ള അദ്ദേഹത്തിന്റെ ഏറ്റവും അടുത്ത ഉദ്യോഗസ്ഥർ രാത്രി ജെമെല്ലി ആശുപത്രിയിൽ തങ്ങുമെന്ന് പ്രതീക്ഷിക്കുന്നതായി ഔദ്യോഗിക വൃത്തങ്ങളെ ഉദ്ധരിച്ച് ബിബിസി റിപ്പോർട്ട് ചെയ്യുന്നു. ഈസ്റ്ററിന് മുന്നോടിയായി നിരവധി പരിപാടികൾ ഷെഡ്യൂൾ …
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New York, Mar 31 Donald Trump has been indicted by a Manhattan grand jury on charges related to paying off a porn star during his 2016 presidential campaign, making him the first former US president to face a criminal charge and upending his bid to retake the White House in 2024. The grand jury on Thursday voted to indict 76-year-old Trump, a Republican, for his role in paying money to porn star Stormy Daniels in an attempt to buy her silence over an alleged affair. He will be arraigned on Tuesday.
1 year, 3 months ago
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अमेरिका की जॉर्जिया असेंबली ने ‘हिंदूफोबिया’ (हिंदू धर्म के प्रति पूर्वाग्रह) की निंदा करने वाला एक प्रस्ताव पारित किया है. इस तरह का कानूनी उपाय करने वाला जॉर्जिया अमेरिका का पहला राज्य बन गया है. हिंदूफोबिया और हिंदू विरोधी कट्टरता की निंदा करते हुए प्रस्ताव में कहा गया है कि हिंदू धर्म दुनिया का सबसे बड़ा और सबसे पुराना धर्म है और दुनिया के 100 से ज्यादा देशों में 1.2 अरब लोग इस धर्म को मानते हैं. प्रस्ताव में कहा गया कि यह धर्म स्वीकार्यता, आपसी सम्मान एवं शांति के मूल्यों के साथ विविध परंपराओं एवं आस्था प्रणालियों को सम्मिलित करता है. कुछ शिक्षाविदों ने हिंदूफोबिया को भड़काया’ प्रस्ताव में कहा गया है कि बीते कु…
1 year, 3 months ago
Read MoreThe identities of people of Indian descent whose bodies were found in marshland have not been released by the Canadian police, pending identification and notification of next of kin, a media report said on Sunday, as the circumstances of their deaths continued to be investigated. Bodies of eight persons were found on Friday in a marsh on the riverbank near Akwesasne, a community which straddles Quebec, Ontario and New York state. Police say the deceased — believed to be two families of Indian and Romanian descent — were trying to cross into the US from Canada. Among them were two childr…
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NASA has announced a team of four astronauts who will fly around the Moon next year for a 10-day mission. The team was announced during an event in Houston, Texas, that was streamed live yesterday. The team has three American and one Canadian astronaut, including a woman and an African American ever assigned as astronauts to a lunar mission. Reid Wiseman be the commander while Victor Glover will pilot the mission, Christina Koch and Canada's Jeremy Hansen will serve as mission specialists. Ms Koch and Mr Glover will set history as the first woman and first black person, to go to the …
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Read MoreLondon, Apr 4 An Indian student has claimed that he was disqualified from the London School of Economics (LSE) Students’ Union elections as a result of a deliberately orchestrated smear campaign because of his Indian and Hindu identity. Karan Kataria, who is from Haryana and is studying for a postgraduate law degree at the leading university in London, said he was motivated by the support of his peers to contest the post of General Secretary of the LSE Students’ Union (LSESU). However, he was disqualified last week over what he believes are baseless allegations and without being given a c…
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Read MoreA suspect charged with the triple murder of an Indian nurse and her two children pleaded guilty to the murders at a court hearing in eastern England on Wednesday and was remanded in judicial custody until his sentencing in July. Saju Chelavalel, 52, appeared at Northampton Crown Court, where he admitted to killing wife Anju Asok, 35, and children Jeeva Saju, 6, and Janvi Saju, 4. All three victims were found in December last year when emergency services were called to their home in Kettering to reports that they had suffered serious injuries. Forensic post-mortem examinations, which too…
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Former US President Donald Trump, on Tuesday, April 4, pleaded not guilty to 34 criminal charges against him in a Manhattan criminal court. The investigation against Trump started in the 2016 hush money payment made to adult film star Stormy Daniels to conceal an alleged affair that he has constantly denied. Trump officially became the first former US president to face criminal charges when he was arraigned on Tuesday. Earlier, he surrendered to authorities at a court in Lower Manhattan ahead of his arraignment. Trump, who is running for the Republican nomination for next year's preside…
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Read MoreJohannesburg, Apr 7 South Africa said Friday that the UAE has turned down its request to extradite two brothers from the wealthy Indian-origin Gupta family to face trial in the country on fraud and corruption charges. The three Gupta brothers, Ajay, Atul and Rajesh, are wanted in South Africa for their alleged roles in the looting of billions of rands from state enterprises. They are alleged to have used their closeness to former president Jacob Zuma to do this. The South African government last year submitted a formal extradition application to the United Arab Emirates for Rajesh Gupta…
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Today is World Health Day. The theme this year is Health for All. Every year this day is organised on 7th April to coincide with the setting up of the World Health Organisation, WHO in 1948. This year the world health body is observing its 75th anniversary. In a message, the World Health Organization said the idea is to make the global community aware of the strides in public health that have helped improve the quality of life over the past 7 decades. It is also a call for action to tackle health challenges.
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Read MoreHouston, Apr 8 A missing 6-year-old boy from Texas, whose parents fled to India from the US and face felony charges of abandoning and endangering their child, is believed to be dead, a top police official has said. Noel Rodriguez-Alvarez, who has special needs, was last seen in November shortly after his twin sisters were born in October last year. Everman Police Chief Craig Spencer said on Thursday that the search for the missing boy is now a death investigation and they are attempting to locate and recover his body.
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The first Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Ms. Emine Dzhaparova will be on a four-day visit to India today. During the visit, Ms. Dzhaparova will hold talks with Sanjay Verma, Secretary (West) in the Ministry of External Affairs. Both sides are expected to discuss bilateral relations. They will also exchange views on the current situation in Ukraine and global issues of mutual interest. Ms. Dzhaparova will also call on Minister of State for External Affairs Meenakshi Lekhi and meet Deputy National Security Adviser Vikram Misri. India shares warm and friendly relations and…
1 year, 3 months ago
Read MoreHundreds of South Koreans were forced to flee a wildfire fueled by strong winds that burned parts of an eastern coastal city Tuesday, destroying dozens of homes. According to the Gangwon Province Governor Kim Jin-tae and the Ministry of the Interior and Safety, more than 700 firefighters and 300 vehicles were dispatched to fight the fire that started on a mountain in a central part of Gangneung. At least 44 homes were destroyed and more than 300 residents evacuated to facilities that included an ice-skating arena and a middle school gym. According to the ministry, there were no immediate r…
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In a tragic incident that has once again highlighted the turmoil in Myanmar, between 50 and 100 people, including civilians, have reportedly been killed in an air strike carried out by the military. The event was attended by opponents to the military rule in the Sagaing region of central Myanmar. Several media outlets, including BBC Burmese, Radio Free Asia, and the Irrawaddy news portal, have reported the deaths, citing residents in the area. However, news agency Reuters has been unable to verify the reports, with a spokesperson for the ruling military not responding to requests for comme…
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A Saudia Airlines cargo flight on Saturday made an emergency landing at Kolkata Airport after its windshield cracked mid-air, reports ANI. The aircraft landed safely at the Kolkata Airport at 12:02 pm. Before the landing, the airport had made all the necessary arrangements. Full emergency was withdrawn after the flight landed, according to airport officials. Recently, an Abu Dhabi-bound Etihad Airways flight returned to the Bangalore International Airport shortly after take-off due to a technical issue. The airline said that the aircraft did a normal landing at Bangalore airport. The fligh…
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Fighting in the Sudanese capital raged into the early hours of Sunday after a day of deadly battles between paramilitaries and the regular army that left at least 27 people dead and 200 wounded. Explosions and gunfire rang out on the deserted streets of Khartoum after the paramilitaries said they were in control of the presidential place, Khartoum airport and other vital facilities. The international community has condemned the escalation of violence in Sudan’s capital Khartoum. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the situation in Sudan was “fragile” but insisted there was still an o…
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At least 21 people died on Tuesday in Beijing after a fire broke out at Changfeng Hospital, according to reports. A total of 71 patients were evacuated from the area. The fire was reported at the in-patient department of a hospital in the Fengtai district of Beijing, as per the Global Times report. The fire department rushed to the spot after receiving information regarding the fire incident at 12:57 PM (local time). The fire department, public security, health, and emergency departments rushed to the spot, Global Times reported citing Beijing Daily. The fire was extinguished at 1:33 pm (l…
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In Sudan, at least 185 people killed and 1,800 were injured in three days of fighting between rival factions the states. The overall death toll could be much higher because clashes in Khartoum have prevented the removal of bodies in some areas. The outbreak of violence over the weekend has trapped millions of people in their homes, while supplies are running low in several areas. The regular army and the rival paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) issued statements accusing one another of violating the ceasefire. The army's top command stated that operations to secure the capital…
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More than 3,000 flights were delayed or cancelled within, into, or out of the US on Monday, according to FlightAware. Sunday saw the highest number of US airport passengers ever, Transportation Security Administration data showed. Storms threaten a swathe of the eastern US, while the south and west continue to bake in a heatwave. United Airlines remained the carrier worst affected by the delays on Monday, accounting for over 300 postponed flights, according to data from the FlightAware website. The carrier experienced more than 5,000 delays and cancellations over the past week, far …
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Portsmouth University, located in England, has been asked to pay at least £4,50,000 for "subconscious" discrimination against a female Indian academic. A tribunal based in Southampton has found Dr Kajal Sharma racially discriminated against by her line manager at Portsmouth University. Dr. Kajal Sharma, an academic, held the position of Associate Head of Organisational Studies and Human Resource Management on a five-year fixed-term contract. As her contract concluded on December 31, 2020, she was required to undergo a reapplication process for the same position. Professor Gary Rees, D…
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