Vladimir Putin orders intensified measures to protect Crimea-related facilities
Oct 09, 2022, at 05:50 pm
Moscow/UNI: Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree to strengthen measures for protecting transport crossing through the Kerch Strait, the power grid connecting Crimea and the main gas pipeline to the peninsula.
China launches space-based observatory to unravel the Sun's secrets
Oct 09, 2022, at 03:15 pm
Jiuquan/UNI: China lifted off a solar exploration satellite into space from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China on Sunday.
Pakistan: Police baton-charge, arrest protesting school teachers in Peshawar
Oct 08, 2022, at 10:00 pm
Peshawar: The police arrested dozens of schoolteachers after resorting to baton-charge and tear gas firing to disperse their rally staged in Pakistan's Peshawar city on Thursday to demand upgradation of their pay scales and restoration of allowances.
Pakistan: Policeman hurt in Lakki attack
Oct 08, 2022, at 09:55 pm
Lakki Marwat: A policeman was hurt when armed men attacked a patrolling party on Manjiwala link road in Pakistan's Lakki Marwat region on Wednesday, media reports said on Saturday.
Reconsider travel to Pakistan due to terrorism and sectarian violence: US tells citizens in advisory
Oct 08, 2022, at 09:45 pm
The United States has issued travel advisory to people of Pakistan and asked them to reconsider travelling to the country due to 'terrorism and sectarian violence'.
Pakistan: Flood victims killed in alleged 'police firing'
Oct 08, 2022, at 09:36 pm
Quetta: One flood victim was killed in an alleged police firing during distribution of relief goods by an NGO in the cattle farm area of Jafferabad district of Pakistan on Thursday, media reports said.
Oct 08, 2022, at 08:38 pm
Lagos/UNI: At least 24 people have been killed and 18,000 others displaced by floods in the rainy season starting from May in Nigeria's northern state of Katsina, a relief agency official said.
Bangladesh: Idol vandalized by miscreants in Hindu temple in Jhenaidah
Oct 08, 2022, at 08:26 pm
Dhaka: Police are currently trying to find out the vandals who allegedly desecrated the idol of a deity at a Hindu temple in Jhenaidah's Shailkupa Upaliza in Bangladesh.
Nepal Airlines to sell 5 Chinese planes which are not fit for flying
Oct 08, 2022, at 07:28 pm
Nepal Airlines, facing losses, has decided to sell five of its Chinese-made aircraft as nobody wants to lease them, media reports said on Saturday.
All LTTE detainees to be freed: Sri Lankan PM
Oct 08, 2022, at 07:19 pm
Colombo: All remaining Tamil Tiger detainees will be released and the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) will be repealed, Sri Lankan Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena said in remarks published on Saturday.
US: New York emergency over migrants
Oct 08, 2022, at 06:39 pm
New York: New York City Mayor Eric Adams has declared a state of emergency to address a "crisis situation" over an influx of migrants.
Pakistan: Eight Sheikhupura men stabbed to death in sleep
Oct 08, 2022, at 05:26 pm
Sheikhupura: At least eight people were stabbed to death with axes while they were sleeping in the farms in a village near Sheikhupura in Pakistan, media reports said on Saturday.
Pakistan: Armed men kidnap GB minister, 2 foreigners
Oct 08, 2022, at 04:35 pm
Skardu: Unknown armed men, who demanded the release of their accomplices from jail, kidnapped a Gilgit-Baltistan minister and two foreigners from the Babusar Road of Pakistan, media reports said on Saturday.
Nobel Peace Prize winners shine spotlight on ‘the power of civil society to promote peace’
Oct 08, 2022, at 03:55 pm
New York: The human rights advocates from Russia, Ukraine and Belarus who have been awarded this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, represent “the oxygen of democracy” said the UN chief on Friday, in a message of congratulations to the three winners.
Teen stabbed to death in Israel less than a year after he migrated from India
Oct 08, 2022, at 03:47 pm
A teen, who had recently immigrated to Israel from India with his family, was stabbed to death in Kiryat Shmona city on Thursday, media reports said on Saturday.
Ireland: Blast hits petrol station, 3 die
Oct 08, 2022, at 03:13 pm
Dublin: At least three people died as an explosion rocked a petrol station in Co Donegal city of Ireland on Friday.
Death toll rises to 13 in Ecuador prison riot
Oct 08, 2022, at 02:30 am
Quito/UNI: The number of prisoners killed during a riot on Wednesday in a prison in Ecuador's southwestern city of Guayaquil rose to 13, authorities reported.
Human rights advocates from Russia, Ukraine and Belarus clinch Nobel Peace Prize
Oct 07, 2022, at 09:32 pm
Oslo: The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Ales Bialiatski from Belarus, the Russian human rights organisation Memorial and the Ukrainian human rights organisation Center for Civil Liberties, juries announced on Friday.
Pakistan: Balochistan witnessing spike in Malaria cases
Oct 07, 2022, at 07:11 pm
Quetta: Pakistan's Balochistan is witnessing a rise in Malaria as 2,434 cases of the disease were registered from six districts of the region in the past 24 hours, media reports said on Friday.
Nearly half of world’s terror victims are African, with organised crime increasingly entrenched
Oct 07, 2022, at 06:44 pm
New York: The threat of terrorism and organised crime is becoming increasingly entrenched across Africa, the head of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime told the Security Council on Thursday, warning that illegal trafficking is depriving millions of a decent livelihood.
Sri Lanka: 82 Jaffna students get Chinese scholarship
Oct 07, 2022, at 06:32 pm
Colombo: China has given away scholarships amounting to Rs 4.3 million to 82 students of Jaffna University.
Bangladesh: Chinese national booked for promoting obscenity through mobile app
Oct 07, 2022, at 05:55 pm
Bangladesh police have booked a Chinese national and four others for making millions illegally in Bangladesh by promoting obscenity through a mobile app, media reports said on Friday.
Horrific Thailand nursery attack prompts swift international condemnation
Oct 07, 2022, at 05:34 pm
New York: A horrific attack on a childcare centre in northern Thailand that has left dozens dead, prompted strong international condemnation on Thursday. UN Secretary-General António Guterres, said he was shocked and saddened by the mass shooting.
Make suicide prevention in Africa a priority, UN health agency urges governments
Oct 07, 2022, at 05:22 pm
New York: Did you know that Africa has the highest suicide rate in the world? To reverse that worrying statistic, the UN health agency WHO on Thursday launched a social media campaign to raise awareness around mental health illness, which is believed to account for up to 11 per cent of the risk factors that are associated with suicide.
Afghanistan: Mortar shell explosion leaves a child dead in Paktika
Oct 07, 2022, at 03:08 pm
Paktika: At least one child died and two others were hurt as a mortar shell exploded in eastern Afghan province of Paktika, media reports said on Friday.
National Day: China’s minority communities burn PRC flags in US, UK cities
Oct 07, 2022, at 02:56 am
London: China’s minority communities – Tibetans and Uyghurs - burned Peoples Republic of China (PRC) flags at demonstrations in several US and UK cities on Oct 1 which marked the National Day.
California kidnapping: Three Indian-origin adults and eight-month-old found dead
Oct 06, 2022, at 11:29 pm
San Francisco/UNI: Four kidnapped members of a family in Merced County, in the US state of California, were found dead, the Merced County Sheriff Vernon Warnke said.
Pakistan: Grenade attack on tribal elder's house leave five injured
Oct 06, 2022, at 11:20 pm
Hub: A grenade attack on the house of a tribal elder in Hub town of Pakistan has left five members of a family, including women and children, critically injured, media reports said on Thursday.
Pakistan:Attock jail employees rape, harass women visitors, claims report
Oct 06, 2022, at 11:15 pm
Rawalpindi: The Provincial Intelligence Centre (PIC), in a report, has accused some Attock district jail employees in Pakistan of raping and sexually harassing women who visit to meet prisoners, media reports said on Thursday.
Pakistan: Norwegian national goes missing in Punjab
Oct 06, 2022, at 11:06 pm
A Norwegian national of Pakistani origin has gone missing in Punjab province, media reports said on Thursday.