World
-
5 Sri Lanka fishermen missing after cyclone Mandous
Colombo: Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Fisheries on Tuesday announced that five fishermen disappeared while at sea during cyclone Mandous. The five from three multi-day fishing vessels are residents of Batticaloa, Trincomalee and…
-
Forest fires destroy 13,000 hectares of land in Chile this yr
Santiago: Up to 1,587 forest fires have razed more than 13,000 hectares of land in Chile this year, Agriculture Minister Esteban Valenzuela said. While the fires were 9 per cent fewer than…
-
2 cops among 6 dead in Australia shooting incident
Brisbane: Two police officers were among six victims of a shooting incident in Australia’s Queensland state, police said on Tuesday, adding that a major investigation is underway. The incident took place in…
-
A new dynamic in the Af-Pak Great Game
Kabul: Pakistan’s role in Afghanistan has changed drastically ever since takeover of the Taliban in Kabul. The nature of engagement from the initial days of the Taliban government when one witnessed the…
-
UN witnesses notable advances on achieving gender equality: Guterres
United Nations: Five years since a United Nations system-wide gender parity strategy was adopted, the world body has witnessed notable advances on achieving gender equality, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said. In 2017,…
-
Sacked British-Indian cop says didn’t know of husband’s drug-dealing
London: An Indian-origin Met police officer, who was sacked from the force last month, claimed that she was unaware that her husband was a drug dealer. Constable Rasvinder Agalliu, a former model…
-
India condemns OIC secretary general’s visit to PoK
New Delhi: India on Tuesday strongly condemned the visit of Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Secretary General to Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK), and said that any interference in the country’s internal affairs…
-
UK economy rebounds in Oct but recession still looms
London: The British economy is estimated to have grown by 0.5 per cent between September and October, statistics showed, but a lengthy recession is still expected in the UK. October’s rebound followed…
-
Putin scraps annual year-end news conference
Moscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin’s annual year-end news conference will not take place for the first time in 10 years, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has confirmed. Addressing media persons here on Monday,…
-
Erdogan calls on Putin to establish 30-kilometer Syrian corridor
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called for the establishment of a 30-kilometer (19-mile) security corridor on the Turkish border with Syria, during a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Anadolu Agency reported.…
-
FIFA World Cup: Semifinalists show that possession is not everything in Qatar 2022
Doha: They are numbers that would make a football ‘purist’ such as Pep Guardiola break out into a cold sweat, or have former Spain coach, Luis Enrique trembling in his bed, but…
-
New India-Bangladesh rly line along NE to be operational in June 2023
Agartala: The much expected new railway line between India and Bangladesh along Tripura would be operational in June next year, officials said here on Monday quoting Bangladesh Railway Minister Md. Nurul Islam…
-
Bangladesh seeks India’s cooperation on Rohingya crisis
Dhaka: Bangladesh, which is hosting over a million Rohingya refugees, has sought India’s cooperation to peacefully repatriate the people who were forced to take refuge in the country to evade persecution in…
-
Large percent of world’s languages endangered
Nearly 50 percent of languages spoken all over the world today are “endangered” and face the threat of extinction. India is among the top with 197 indigenous languages in peril of extinction.…