Active Covid cases in country increase to 1,61,555
With 14,313 people testing positive for coronavirus in a day, India’s total tally of Covid cases rose to 3,42,60,470, while the active cases were recorded at 1,61,555, according to the Union health ministry data updated on Saturday. The death toll climbed to 4,57,740 with 549 more fatalities, according to the data updated at 8 am. […]
Moscow starts nonworking period to stem coronavirus infections
The Russian capital on Thursday started a nonworking period intended to stem coronavirus infections as new daily cases and deaths from Covid-19 surged to all-time highs. The government coronavirus task force reported 1,159 deaths in 24 hours, the largest daily tally since the pandemic began. The country’s official death toll from the pandemic, by far […]
Aryan Khan may go home by Friday evening
Even as the Bombay High Court has granted bail to actor Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan, who was arrested in drugs-on-cruise case, his lawyers will have to wait till they get the high court’s operative order for taking further steps towards securing his release from jail. Once the high court gives the order copy […]
Chinese hypersonic test like a ‘Sputnik moment’: US general
WASHINGTON: The Pentagon’s top general said on Wednesday that China’s recent test of an earth-circling hypersonic missile was akin to the Soviet Union’s stunning launch of the world’s first satellite, Sputnik, in 1957, which sparked the superpowers’ space race. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, confirmed for the first time the Chinese […]
Extortion Bid In Aryan Khan Case: Mumbai Police Deputes Team For Enquiry
Mumbai Police has set up an enquiry into complaints of alleged extortion against NCB officers including zonal director Sameer Wankhede in the drugs bust case involving Aryan Khan, a senior police official said on Wednesday. Police officers have been deputed for the enquiry, he added. Police are conducting an inquiry into four complaints, filed by […]
Cyber attack closes fuel stations across Iran
DUBAI: A cyber attack targeted fuel stations on Tuesday across Iran, shutting down a government system managing fuel subsidies and leaving angry motorists stranded in long lines at shuttered stations. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, though it bore similarities to another months earlier that seemed to directly challenge Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah […]
‘Jumla’ version of Covid-19 vaccine story will not save lives: Rahul
Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday said actual vaccinations and not the “jumla (rhetoric) version” of the Covid-19 vaccine story would save lives and pointed out to the large number of people who are yet to be vaccinated in the country. He shared an article by Congress president Sonia Gandhi in a newspaper, which […]
Officials say 18 villagers shot dead at mosque in Nigeria’s Niger state
At least 18 worshippers were killed on Monday by gunmen who attacked a mosque in northern Nigeria during early morning prayers, local authorities and police told The Associated Press. The attack took place in Mazakuka village in Mashegu local government area of the country’s Niger state. The attackers, believed to be ethnic Fulani nomadic herders, were […]
Gujarat court asks Rahul Gandhi to appear on October 29 in defamation case
A magistrate court in Surat has directed Congress leader Rahul Gandhi to appear before it on October 29 to record his statement in connection with a criminal defamation case against him over his remark on the “Modi surname”. On Monday, Chief Judicial Magistrate A N Dave asked Gandhi to appear on October 29 to record […]
Israel to build over 1,300 settler homes in West Bank
JERUSALEM: Israel on Sunday announced plans to build more residences for Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank, drawing immediate condemnation from Palestinians, peace activists and neighbouring Jordan. The announcement from the housing and construction ministry in right-wing Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s government said tenders had been published for 1,355 homes in the West Bank, […]