30-09-2021 TEHRAN: An informed source denied media reports that Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Ali Shamkhani has held a meeting with Saudi Arabia’s officials. The informed source from the secretariat of the Supreme National Security Council told Nour News that Shamkhani has not had any meeting or contact …

Bureau Report 30-09-2021 MELBOURNE: Australia’s Daintree, the world’s oldest tropical rainforest has been returned to its Aboriginal custodians in a historic deal. The UNESCO World Heritage site is over 180 million years old and has been home to generations of Aboriginal people. The Eastern Kuku Yalanji people will now manage …

30-09-2021 Bureau Report NEW YORK/ NEW DELHI: The New York Times (NYT) had issued a clarification on a recent image of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi that was going viral on the internet, calling it “completely fabricated”. An image of the Indian prime minister, featured on what seemed like the …

Report by Syed Hussain Ali Sajjad Hyderabad Sep 29: The 40th day (Chehloom) of Shohuda-e-Karbala was observed on 20th Safar 1443(H) corresponding to 28th September 2021 Hazrat Imam Hussaina.s the second grandson of Prophet Mohammed Mustafas.a.w.s was martyred in the battle of Karbala on the day of Ashoora (10th Muharram …

29-09-2021 LONDON: The Army is ready to help ease fuel supply problems after a fourth day of long queues and pump closures. Up to 150 military tanker drivers will prepare to deliver to forecourts which have run dry because of panic buying. The surge in demand came amid fears a …

29-09-2021 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ ISLAMABAD/ UNITED NATIONS: In his address to the United Nations General Assembly on Saturday, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that India is known as the “mother of democracy”. This was a repetition of the statement he gave in April while addressing the …

29-09-2021 BEIRUT: When the first convoy of Hezbollah-brokered Iranian diesel fuel arrived in Lebanon earlier this month, it was met with a mixed reaction. While some feared that the Iran-backed party would use it to further assert its dominance, others welcomed the fuel as a temporary relief in the middle …

28-09-2021 PYONGYANG: North Korea has fired a suspected ballistic missile into the sea, officials in South Korea and Japan said, shortly before Pyongyang’s representative told the United Nations the country had the “righteous right” to test weapons because of the “hostile” policies directed against it. In an emergency National Security …

28-09-2021 LONDON: Petrol pumps in English cities are running dry after panic buying worsened shortages caused by a lack of truckers. Queues of cars snaked back from filling stations across the country on Sunday, swallowing up supplies and forcing many retailers to shut despite assurances from the government that the United …

28-09-2021 ABUJA: Dozens of Shia Muslims were killed in three separate attacks in different states in northern Nigeria. In the northwestern state of Kaduna, at least 34 Shia people were killed and dozens wounded after gunmen attacked a village there. “Gunmen belong with ISIS (Daesh) attacked Madamai village in Kaura …