03-08-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: India’s top court began on Wednesday hearing a challenge to the 2019 government decision that stripped the Muslim-majority region of Kashmir of its statehood and special autonomous status. The semi-autonomy of Jammu and Kashmir was granted by India’s constitution until Aug. 5, 2019, …

03-08-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies SYDNEY: As the COVID-19 pandemic reshaped the way we work, Australians are now pushing for a future where remote work options become a permanent fixture in their lives. The call for Work-From-Home (WFH) flexibility is growing louder as employees value the newfound work-life balance and …

03-08-2023 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report PESHAWAR/ KARACHI: The deadly July suicide bombing at a political rally in Pakistan’s northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa highlights a troublesome trend of violence in the region. The bombing on Sunday targeted those attending a rally for the religious political party Jamiat Uleme-e-Islam-Fazal …

03-08-2023 WASHINGTON: Former President Donald Trump has been indicted for the third time, this time around in connection with his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. This is the first time in history that a former US president is facing three criminal indictments since he started his 2024 Republican …

03-08-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies SYDNEY: As the COVID-19 pandemic reshaped the way we work, Australians are now pushing for a future where remote work options become a permanent fixture in their lives. The call for Work-From-Home (WFH) flexibility is growing louder as employees value the newfound work-life balance and …

02-08-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: A mosque was set on fire and a Muslim cleric killed during religious clashes that broke out after a procession by Hindu nationalist groups in the northern Indian state of Haryana. Those killed in the violence in the state include two “home guards”, …

02-08-2023 WASHINGTON: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has lost contact with its Voyager 2 probe billions of miles away from Earth after mistakenly severing contact with it, the space agency has revealed. Last month, the spacecraft exploring space since 1977 was sent the wrong command, tilting its antenna to …

02-08-2023 PARIS/ ABUJA: France is preparing to evacuate its citizens from the West African nation of Niger because of anti-French sentiment following last week’s coup. It has said it will also help other European nationals to leave. The coup has prompted demonstrations against the former colonial power, with the French …

02-08-2023 STOCKHOLM: Sweden’s government has no plans to make sweeping changes to freedom of speech laws but repeated it would look into measures that would allow police to stop the burning of holy books in public if there was a clear threat to national security. “We stand up for the …

02-08-2023 NAYPYIDAW: Myanmar’s ruling military has granted partial clemency to deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi, pardoning the Nobel laureate in five of the 19 offences for which she was convicted and jailed for a total of 33 years following a coup two years ago, according to media reports. The …