21-07-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: India’s actual death toll during the first phase of the COVID-19 pandemic that ravaged the world’s most populous country could be eight times higher than the government’s official numbers, reveals a new study while that initial wave of the virus caught the world …

21-07-2024 ALON SHVUT/ WEST BANK: Israeli forces pounded several areas across the Gaza Strip on Saturday, killing at least 30 Palestinians, according to health officials, as tanks advanced deeper into western and northern Rafah. Among those killed on Saturday were local journalist Mohammad Abu Jasser, his wife, and two children, …

21-07-2024 PORT-AU-PRINCE: The injured are receiving care provided by the IOM, and 11 of them were taken to the nearest hospital, the agency said. Tens of thousands of people flee Haiti every year, escaping poverty, lawlessness and gang violence at home. Rival armed groups took control of the capital, Port-au-Prince, …

21-07-2024 LONDON/ PARIS/ NEW YORK: IT problems will take ‘some time’ to fix while the criminals seeking to exploit mass IT outage globally, CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz claimed. A massive tech failure that caused travel chaos around the world on Friday is continuing to cause some disruption. The boss of …

21-07-2024 DHAKA: Police imposed a strict curfew with a “shoot-on-sight” order across Bangladesh as military forces patrolled parts of the capital Saturday after scores were killed and hundreds injured in clashes over the allocation of civil service jobs. The curfew began at midnight and was relaxed from noon to 2 …

21-07-2024 MISSOURI: A woman whose murder conviction was overturned after she served 43 years of a life sentence has been released, despite attempts in the last month by a US state’s attorney-general to keep her behind bars. Sandra Hemme, 64, left a prison in Chillicothe, Missouri, on Friday (Saturday AEST) …

20-07-2024 DHAKA: Authorities in Bangladesh have imposed a nationwide curfew, after further rioting in the capital Dhaka left an additional 35 people dead. Days of violence have been sparked by students’ calls for the government to axe a rule reserving scores of public jobs for the families of veterans of …

20-07-2024 TEL AVIV: A long-range Iranian-made drone hit the centre of Tel Aviv in the early hours of Friday in an attack claimed by the Yemen-based Houthi militia that killed one man and wounded four others, the Israeli military and emergency services said. The explosion, which footage shared on social …

20-07-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ BENGALURU: Wipro, opens new tab, India’s fourth-largest IT services player, missed quarterly revenue expectations on Friday due to prolonged softness in key geographies such as Europe, and Asia Pacific, India, Middle East and Africa (APMEA). The company’s consolidated revenue fell 3.8% to 219.64 …

20-07-2024 WASHINGTON: Edna Wales, a Republican delegate from Florida, does not support abortion. As a Roman Catholic, the procedure goes against her moral values but her policy position, she told media at a street fair at the Republican National Convention, was that it should be left to the states. “I …