International Desk :Residents of India’s most populous state, Uttar Pradesh, have voted in the first phase of the seven-phase assembly elections expected to be a bellwether of the popularity of Prime Minister Narendra Modi...
Al Jazera :Yemen is facing one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises as the brutal war there enters its eighth year.The UN estimates the war has killed 377,000 people as of the end of...
BSS :Slovenia’s conservative Prime Minister Janez Jansa said on Wednesday that he had tested positive for Covid-19, just as the EU country of two million sees a decline in new infections.“For two years we...
BSS :UN chief Antonio Guterres has condoled the demise of the legendary Indian singer, Lata Mangeshkar, who “truly had been the voice of the subcontinent”. Mangeshkar, who will be counted as one of India’s...
BSS :An estimated 13 million people in Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia are facing severe hunger as the Horn of Africa experiences its worst drought in decades, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Tuesday.Three...
BSS :Malaysia reported 11,034 new COVID-19 infections as of midnight Monday, bringing the national total to 2,925,254, according to the health ministry.Among the new infections, 77 were imported cases, and 10,957 were local transmissions,...
Al Jazeera :Gautam Adani, the Indian billionaire who turned a small commodities trading business into a conglomerate spanning ports, mines and green energy, is now Asia’s richest person.The 59-year-old mogul’s net worth reached $88.5...
Al Jazeera :A Sri Lankan court has ordered the release on bail of a lawyer arrested over his alleged links to the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings and held for nearly two years on charges...
BSS :Thousands of students in the Australian state of Victoria tested positive for COVID-19 since returning to classrooms, while the state government hasn’t decided yet to extend the school surveillance testing.There were 2,368 school...
BSS :Lata Mangeshkar’s nephew Adinath on Monday collected the singing legend’s ashes from the Shivaji Park in Mumbai, where she was cremated with full state honours. “We handed over the asthi kalash (urn) to...
Xinhua :Chinese President Xi Jinping on Sunday sent a congratulatory message to Queen Elizabeth II on the 70th anniversary of her accession to the British throne.In the message, Xi said Queen Elizabeth II has...
