26-07-2022 LONDON: A Pakistani man, who allegedly murdered a student and dumped her body in a suitcase, has appeared before a UK Court. Muhammad Arslan is accused of killing Hina Bashir, who belonged to the same village in Pakistan. Hina, a 21-year-old student at Coventry University London, was found in …
Read More »
26-07-2022 NEW YORK: Tesla boss and multi-billionaire Elon Musk rubbished rumours of him ending his friendship with Google co-founder Sergey Brin, clapping back at rumours of an affair with Brin’s wife. “Sergey and I are friends and were at a party together last night!” Musk wrote on Twitter. He also …
Read More »
26-07-2022 DHAKA: Bangladesh has sought a $4.5 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund, the Daily Star newspaper reported on Tuesday, the latest country in South Asia to seek such support amid rising pressure on the economies of the region. Bangladesh has sought the funds for its balance of payment …
Read More »
26-07-2022 AMSTERDAM/ BERLIN: In a study published in European Sociological Review, researchers conducted a field experiment proving veiled Muslim women face public backlash from clients and customers when job-hunting in Netherlands and Germany. To conduct the study, the researchers picked a set of candidates and filed two job applications for …
Read More »
25-07-2022 Bureau Report MELBOURNE: The number of Australians admitted to hospitals with COVID-19 has hit a record of about 5,450 on Monday, official data showed, as the spread of highly contagious new Omicron sub-variants stretches the healthcare system nationwide. The figure has grown since late June, as the BA.4 and …
Read More »
25-07-2022 NAYPYIDAW: Myanmar’s military government has executed four anti-coup activists, including a close ally of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, drawing widespread condemnation and outrage. The four men were executed over their involvement in organising “brutal and inhumane terror acts”, the state-run Global New Light of Myanmar …
Read More »
25-07-2022 NEW YORK: Tesla boss Elon Musk said late on Sunday on Twitter that he and Google co-founder Sergey Brin remain friends and denied a report that he had been involved in an affair with Brin’s wife Nicole Shanahan. Musk’s tweets came after a Wall Street Journal report that cited …
Read More »
25-07-2022 NASSAU: Seventeen people died after a boat carrying dozens of Haitian migrants capsized off the coast of The Bahamas, authorities said on Sunday, as more Haitians attempt to reach the United States to flee gang violence and poverty at home. Rescue teams recovered the bodies of 17 people, including …
Read More »
25-07-2022 BEIJING: China’s population has slowed significantly and is expected to start to shrink ahead of 2025, the state backed Global Times reported, citing a senior health official. Birth data released late on Sunday showed that the number of new births in 2021 was the lowest in decades in several …
Read More »
24-07-2022 TEHRAN: The founder of WhatsApp made a record $2 million donation to the pro-Israel lobby group American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s (AIPAC) campaign in the Democratic primaries in the US last month. Ukrainian-born Jewish inventor, Jan Koum, made the donation to help defeat pro-Palestinian candidates. Details uncovered by Israel’s …
Read More »
Pressmediaofindia