Canada's Sovereignty Bonds: A new way to support Ukraine
Oct 29, 2022, at 08:00 pm
Washington/IBNS: Canada will offer a new fiver year bond backed by the Government for sale to raise money for Ukraine, and apply new sanctions on 35 Russian individuals which includes Gazprom personnel, as per media reports.
New financial fraud hits Sri Lankans by storm, Chinese couple arrested
Oct 29, 2022, at 05:36 am
Colombo: Sri Lanka's Criminal Investigations Department (CID) has launched an investigation into a new financial fraud, which involved a Chinese couple, amounting to Rs.14 billion with 8,000 people being victims in a fake cryptocurrency scheme.
China accused of establishing illegal police stations in the Netherlands
Oct 29, 2022, at 05:28 am
Beijing: The Chinese government has been accused of establishing two undeclared "police stations" in the Netherlands, media reports said on Friday.
Canada: Ottawa's Parliament Hill hosts Diwali celebration
Oct 29, 2022, at 04:46 am
IBNS: A Diwali celebration event hosted at Parliament Hill in Ottawa was attended by more than 450 people across Canada.
Canada: Toronto Public Health reminds families to update student immunization records
Oct 29, 2022, at 04:34 am
Toronto/IBNS: Toronto Public Health has launched a campaign to raise awareness of the importance of child-age immunizations for diseases including Diphtheria, Tetanus, Polio, Measles, Mumps, Rubella, Meningococcal Disease, Pertussis (whooping cough) and Varicella (chickenpox.
Twitter in 'sane hands': Donald Trump after Elon Musk takeover
Oct 29, 2022, at 04:25 am
Washington/IBNS/UNI: Former US President Donald Trump welcomed Elon Musk’s official takeover of Twitter on Friday and said the social media platform was "now in sane hands."
Pakistan: Police rescue minor maid who was kept in chains by her employer
Oct 29, 2022, at 01:43 am
Faisalabad’s Madina Town police of Pakistan have recovered a nine-year-old maid from a house in Eden Valley locality who was kept in chains by her employers, media reports said on Friday.
Pakistan: Ex-PM Imran Khan booed in Lahore
Oct 29, 2022, at 01:34 am
Lahore: Former Pakistan Prime Minister and PTI chief Imran Khan was on Friday booed with 'ghari chor' (watch thief) slogans near the civil courts here in Punjab.
Increase of crime in Pakistan's Karachi has left people insecure: Study
Oct 29, 2022, at 01:30 am
Islamabad: A recent survey has shown that rising street crime in Karachi has made people feel more insecure, media reports said on Saturday.
Pakistan: Grenade Attack on police station leaves a constable dead
Oct 29, 2022, at 01:25 am
Dera Murad Jamali: A grenade attack on a police station left one constable dead in Pakistan's Dhadar area on Wednesday, media reports said on Friday.
Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestinian territory, tantamount to ‘settler-colonialism’: UN expert
Oct 29, 2022, at 01:19 am
New York: Israel’s occupation is illegal and indistinguishable from a “settler-colonial” situation, which must end, as a pre-condition for Palestinians to exercise their right to self-determination, the UN’s independent expert on the occupied Palestinian territory said on Thursday.
Time for ‘concrete action’ by international community to hold Iran’s security forces to account
Oct 29, 2022, at 01:15 am
New York: Condemnation of the brutal and on-going crackdown of protests in Iran is “not enough”, said the UN independent human rights expert for the country on Thursday, calling for the establishment of an international investigative mechanism.
UN rights chief appeals for a halt in forced returns to Myanmar
Oct 29, 2022, at 12:43 am
New York: The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, on Wednesday called for a moratorium on the forced returns of refugees and migrants to Myanmar, in light of the ongoing situation in the country.
Oct 29, 2022, at 12:34 am
Quetta: Kissan Ittehad Pakistan Chairman Khalid Hussain has threatened that they will participate in a protest sit-in front of the chief minister’s house here and D-Chowk in Islamabad if the government failed to implement within 10 days the relief package agreed with them in the federal capital, media reports said.
Security Council counter-terrorism body to review growing threat posed by new technologies
Oct 29, 2022, at 12:28 am
New York: The United Nations Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee holds a special meeting in Mumbai and New Delhi beginning on Friday, focused on the growing threat posed by new and emerging technologies.
PTI leader says Arsha Sharif's death was 'pre-planned' and hatched within Pakistan
Oct 29, 2022, at 12:09 am
Islamabad: A PTI leader has claimed that the murder of journalist Arshad Sharif was 'pre-planned' and hatched in Pakistan media reports said on Friday.
Canada: 3 men of Punjabi origin arrested in drug bust
Oct 28, 2022, at 10:29 pm
Ottawa: Three Punjab-origin people were among six people charged in the Peel municipality in Toronto, in connection with an international drug trafficking enterprise, media reports said on Friday.
World facing most dangerous decade: Putin
Oct 28, 2022, at 08:34 pm
Moscow/UNI: The world faces "probably the most dangerous" decade since the end of World War II, Russian President Vladimir Putin warned.
EU to provide Albania with 80 mln euros to tackle energy crisis
Oct 28, 2022, at 07:20 pm
Tirana/UNI: The European Union (EU) will provide 80 million euros (79.7 million US dollars) in grants to Albania to tackle the energy crisis, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said.
Iraq’s parliament approves al-Sudani's new cabinet lineup
Oct 28, 2022, at 07:17 pm
Baghdad/UNI: The Iraqi parliament has approved the new cabinet lineup and the government program presented by Prime Minister-designate Mohammed Shia' al-Sudani.
North Korea fires ballistic missile off east coast: Reports
Oct 28, 2022, at 03:08 pm
Pyongyang: North Korea has fired at least one ballistic missile into waters off the east coast of the Korean Peninsula on Friday, media reports said.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk takes charge of Twitter, removes CEO Parag Agrawal: Reports
Oct 28, 2022, at 02:52 pm
San Francisco: Tesla CEO Elon Musk has finally taken charge of popular micro-blogging site Twitter, media reports said on Friday, adding that Twitter's Indian origin chief executive Parag Agrawal has been fired.
King Charles III plans to sideline Prince Harry, Andrew as royal stand-ins: Report
Oct 28, 2022, at 04:11 am
London/IBNS: British King Charles III is planning to extend the pool of royals allowed to act for him in his absence, however, sidelining non-working royals Prince Harry and the Duke of York Prince Andrew, media reports said Thursday.
Italy's new cabinet wins final confidence vote
Oct 27, 2022, at 08:59 pm
Rome/UNI: The new Italian cabinet led by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni won a confidence vote in the upper house of Italy's parliament by a comfortable margin.
Ukrainian Prez calls Russian tactics on eastern front 'crazy'
Oct 27, 2022, at 08:49 pm
Kyiv/UNI: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has called Russian commanders' tactics to capture the eastern town of Bakhmut as "craziness".
Swedish Navy inspects Nord Stream pipeline leak site
Oct 27, 2022, at 05:58 pm
Stockholm/UNI: The Swedish Navy said that it had deployed two vessels to conduct further investigations into the Nord Stream pipeline leaks in the Baltic Sea.
Rishi Sunak slammed over picking Indian-origin Suella Braverman as home secretary
Oct 27, 2022, at 04:18 am
London/IBNS: British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak Wednesday defended the reappointment of Indian-origin Suella Braverman as the Home Secretary saying the latter will be focused to crack down on criminals and defend the country's borders.
Ukraine war: Russia launches ballistic missile as part of nuclear drills
Oct 27, 2022, at 02:45 am
Moscow/IBNS: Russian President Vladimir Putin Wednesday surveyed drills carried out by his nuclear-capable forces as Moscow raised "unverified" claims to India and China that Ukraine was developing a "dirty bomb."
Iran: 'World's dirtiest man' Amou Haji dies
Oct 27, 2022, at 12:29 am
An Iranian hermit, who had not taken bath for half a century and was even dubbed by the media as the “world’s dirtiest man”, has died. He was 94.
Arshad Sharif killing: ISI official dropped from probe team
Oct 27, 2022, at 12:23 am
Pakistan's Ministry of Interior on Wednesday removed a representative of the Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI) from the list of officials who will be taking part in a team that will ascertain facts in the killing of journalist Arshad Sharif from the Kenyan Police and relevant authorities, media reports said.