JERUSALEM – A stampede broke out early Friday at a Jewish religious festival attended by tens of thousands of people in northern Israel, killing nearly 40 people and leaving some 150 hospitalized, medical officials said. The stampede, one of the deadliest civilian disasters in Israeli history, occurred during the celebrations of Lag BaOmer at Mount […]
DUBAI – Saudi Arabia shipped 80 metric tons of liquid oxygen to India as the country is perilously running low on supplies due to a recent surge in coronavirus cases. The urgent supply shipment is being undertaken in coordination with India’s Adani group and Linde company. India’s number of coronavirus cases surged by 349,691 in […]
Islamabad: As India battles a massive surge in coronavirus cases amid an oxygen shortage, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Saturday expressed solidarity with the country, saying the world needs to “fight this global challenge together.” “I want to express our solidarity with people of India as they battle a dangerous wave of #COVID19. Our […]
Islamabad: Pakistan’s charity foundation, Edhi Foundation, has offered help to India on Friday following the surge in COVID-19 cases in the country. Faisal Edhi, the Managing Trustee of the foundation in a letter to the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, has expressed concern and sympathy with India, where the daily positive cases have surged […]
Washington: Asserting that China and India are to be a factor in the regional prosperity, Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani has said it is “a moment of choice” for neighbouring Pakistan as all its calculations have been “wrong” so far. Ghani, in an interview to CNN’s Fareed Zakaria which aired on Sunday, said that verbally, the […]
Beijing: China deployed an advanced long-range rocket launcher to the Himalayas, in a move aimed at reinforcing country’s border defence and acting as a deterrent to India, according to a report by South China Morning Post quoting military mouthpiece and analysts. According to the report, it is the first time that the Peoples Liberation Army […]
Islamabad: The National Command and Control Centre (NCOC) on Monday decided to ban passengers coming into the country from India, after coronavirus cases in the neighbouring country witnessed a spike. The NCOC, in a statement, said the decision was taken during a meeting with the Federal Minister for Planning and Development and NCOC head Asad […]
Dhaka: Bangladesh has decided to extend the nationwide lockdown for yet another week to counter the spike in coronavirus infections, an official said on Monday. “The restrictions will continue for one more week from Thursday,” the government`s Chief Information Officer Surodh Kumar Sarker told reporters here, referring to a senior officials` meeting that reviewed the […]
Tokyo: Japan’s government said Monday it is asking Myanmar to release a Japanese journalist who was arrested by security forces in its largest city of Yangon the previous day. Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato told reporters Monday that his government is asking Myanmar authorities to explain the arrest and provide other details while asking for […]
Kabul: Eight members of the same family were gunned down in an attack on a mosque in eastern Afghanistan, officials said Sunday. The shooting happened on Saturday night in the city of Jalalabad in Nangarhar province, and was believed to be over a land dispute, the province’s governor Zaiulhaq Amarkhil said. Five brothers and three […]