‘Once in a century’ flood cuts off communities in Australia
SYDNEY: Military helicopters airlifted hundreds of people from communities cut off by “once in a century” floods in Australia’s northwest, an official leading relief efforts said on Sunday, noting water covered some places “as far as the eye could see”. The crisis in the Kimberley — an sparsely populated area in Western Australia state about […]
No respite for Ukraine’s east despite Putin’s truce
BAKHMUT: Artillery exchanges pounded war-scarred cities in eastern Ukraine on Friday despite Russian leader Vladimir Putin unilaterally ordering his forces to stop attacking for 36 hours. The brief ceasefire declared by Putin earlier this week was supposed to begin at 0900 GMT on Friday and would have been the first full pause since Moscow’s invasion […]
Active Covid Cases In Country Decline To 2,554
NEW DELHI, Jan 5: India has recorded 188 new coronavirus infections, while the active cases have declined to 2,554, according to Union health ministry data updated on Thursday. The total tally of Covid cases has been recorded at 4,46,79,319 and the death toll stands at 5,30,710, with three deaths reconciled by Kerala, the data updated […]
Israel kills two Palestinians in West Bank
NABLUS: The Israeli army killed two Palestinians in a West Bank raid on Monday and demolished the homes of two Palestinians accused of killing an Israeli soldier. The Palestinian health ministry announced the deaths of “Mohammad Samer Hoshieh, 22, after being shot in the chest, and Fuad Mohammad Abed, 25, after being shot in the […]
Trump paid no income tax in 2020, papers reveal
WASHINGTON: Democrats in Congress released six years of Donald Trump’s tax records to the public on Friday, disclosing documents the former president long sought to keep secret and dealing another setback as he again seeks the White House in 2024. A Democratic-controlled US House of Representatives committee released Trump’s redacted returns for 2015 through 2020, […]
Active Covid Cases In Country Rise To 3,552
NEW DELHI, Dec 29: India recorded 268 new coronavirus infections, while the active cases increased to 3,552, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Thursday. The Covid case tally was recorded at 4.46 crore (4,46,77,915). The death toll stands at 5,30,698 with two fatalities with one reconciled by Kerala and one death reported from […]
Fly away home: Rare Eastern Sarus cranes released in Thailand
BURIRAM: As the sun came up, 13 Thai Eastern Sarus cranes were released over a rippling reservoir in northeast Thailand, the latest effort to revive the almost-extinct species in the kingdom. More commonly known as Thai cranes, the birds nearly disappeared from the country roughly 50 years ago — they were last spotted in the […]
Home Ministry gives NOC for name change of two places in Uttar Pradesh
The Union Home Ministry has given its consent to change the names of two places in Uttar Pradesh following recommendations from the state government, officials said on Tuesday. The ‘no-objection’ certificates were issued by the ministry for changing the name of municipal council ‘Mundera Baazar’ in Gorakhpur district to ‘Chauri-Chaura’ and that of ‘Telia Afghan’ […]
Rahul harbouring bitterness over loss of political power: Ravi Shankar
Senior BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad charged Congress leader Rahul Gandhi with harbouring ‘talkhi’ (bitterness) over loss of political power and speaking of ‘mohabbat’ (love) during the ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ to hide the same. The former Union minister also made a veiled reference to leaders like Kanhaiya Kumar, saying “people who have ‘nafrat’ (hatred) for […]
China’s health system braces for Covid peak
BEIJING: China is expecting a peak in Covid-19 infections within a week, a health official said, with authorities predicting extra strain on the country’s health system even as they downplay the disease’s severity and continue to report no fresh deaths. In the face of a surging outbreak and widespread protests against its “zero-Covid” regime of […]