21-03-2022 BEIJING: A China Eastern passenger jet carrying 132 people crashed in southern China on Monday, aviation authorities said, with state media reporting it led to a fire on a mountain and the number of casualties unknown. The Boeing 737 flight from Kunming city to the southern hub of Guangzhou …
Read More »‘Taliban to open high schools for girls this week’
21-03-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD/ KABUL: The Taliban will allow girls around Afghanistan to return to class when high schools open next week, an education official said on Thursday, after months of uncertainty over whether the group would allow full access to education for girls and …
Read More »Japan PM urges Modi to take tougher line against Russian invasion
21-03-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has urged his Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi, to take a tougher line on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, but a joint statement after talks in New Delhi fell short of condemning Moscow’s actions. Unlike fellow members of the Quad alliance Japan, …
Read More »Saudi Aramco’s profit more than doubles in 2021
21-03-2022 RIYADH: Energy giant Saudi Aramco says its 2021 net profit soared by more than 120 percent due to higher crude oil prices, as global economic growth recovered from a pandemic induced downturn. The announcement came on Sunday hours after Yemen’s Houthi rebels, against whom Saudi Arabia leads a military …
Read More »Shark bites man to death in Colombian Island
21-03-2022 SAN ANDRES: A 50-year-old tourist swimming in the waters of the Colombian Island of San Andres was bitten to death by an eight-foot-long tiger shark, reported The Sun. As per the report, the man, who was touring the city, was a good swimmer and had been in the water …
Read More »China locks down millions more as COVID spreads
21-03-2022 BEIJING: China on Sunday imposed stay-at-home orders on millions more people in Country’s northeast as it battles its biggest COVID-19 outbreak in two years. The country has largely kept the virus at bay since it brought to heel its initial outbreak in 2020 using targeted lockdowns, mass testing and …
Read More »Family & friends farewell Australian cricketer Shane Warne
20-03-2022 Bureau Report MELBOURNE: ‘Fix You’ by Coldplay echoed through St Kilda’s home ground as mourners gathered to remember and celebrate the late Shane Warne. Around 80 of the cricket star’s closest friends and family gathered at St Kilda Football Club today to farewell the cricket legend. The private service …
Read More »Canadian mosque worshippers subdue hatchet-wielding attacker
20-03-2022 TORONTO MISSISSAUGA: Worshippers at dawn prayer in a suburb of Toronto tackled and subdued a 24-year-old man who allegedly entered their mosque and attacked people with bear spray on Saturday, according to local police. Peel Regional Police said the man walked into the Dar Al-Tawheed Islamic Centre in Mississauga, …
Read More »PM Modi became the world’s most popular leader
20-03-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ WASHINGTON: America Global Leader Approval Tracker Morning Consult (Morning Consult) has released the approval rating of global leaders. This time Prime Minister Narendra Modi (Narendra Modi) has the highest rating and that 77 percent approval rating (Narendra Modi Approval Rating) remains the world’s …
Read More »China reports first COVID deaths in more than a year
20-03-2022 SHANGHAI/ BEIJING: Mainland China reported its first COVID-19 deaths in more than a year on Saturday, according to a post on the National Health Commission’s website that said two people died in the northeastern region of Jilin. China reported only two COVID deaths for all of 2021, the last …
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