Mustafa Majid Sheikh The majority of humans are staying home to save themselves from being infected with novel coronavirus. As a consequence, the air is cleaner, the water is clearer, and animals are freer. It seems that the Covid-19 pandemic is a gift to the environment. It has not only taken billions of people off […]
NEW DELHI: The Navy has increased its surveillance missions and beefed up operational deployment in the Indian Ocean region in the wake of India’s seven-week bitter border standoff with China in eastern Ladakh, people familiar with the development said. The Indian Navy is also ramping up its operational cooperation with various friendly naval forces like […]
NEW DELHI: The government should stop “profiteering” from petrol and diesel, and immediately roll back price hikes as well as the excise duty imposed on the fuels, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said on Monday. The former party president also said that prices of petrol and diesel are constantly increasing in the country when global crude […]
NEW DELHI: A single-day spike of 19,459 Covid-19 cases took India’s tally to 5,48,318 on Monday, while the death toll climbed to 16,475 with 380 new fatalities, according to the Union Health Ministry data. This is the sixth consecutive day that coronavirus infections have increased by more than 15,000. The country has seen a surge […]
NEW DELHI: The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) is working on an umbrella information portal NIIP to collate all real-time official data including on the Indian economy, Union minister Rao Inderjit Singh on Monday. The project, National Integrated Information Portal (NIIP), assumes significance as data related to macro-economy and other sectors are released […]
TEHRAN: Iran has issued an arrest warrant and asked Interpol for help in detaining President Donald Trump and dozens of others it believes carried out the drone strike that killed a top Iranian general in Baghdad, a local prosecutor reportedly said Monday. While Trump faces no danger of arrest, the charges underscore the heightened tensions […]
KARACHI: Four heavily armed militants attacked the busy Pakistan Stock Exchange building here with guns and grenades on Monday morning, killing four security guards and a police officer before being shot dead in an exchange of fire, authorities said. The militants, who arrived in a car, opened indiscriminate fire and lobbed hand grenades at the […]
Beijing: China’s military has received the greenlight to use a COVID-19 vaccine candidate developed by its research unit and CanSino Biologics (6185.HK) after clinical trials proved it was safe and somewhat efficient, the company said on Monday. The Ad5-nCoV is one of the eight vaccine candidates being developed by Chinese companies and researchers approved to […]
CHANDIGARH: Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh on Monday said he is for the reopening of the Kartarpur corridor with adherence to the physical distancing norms amid the Covid-19 pandemic. His statement came two days after Pakistan conveyed its readiness to India to reopen the Kartarpur corridor on the occasion of the death anniversary of Sher-e-Punjab […]
NEW DELHI: Women and girls are under-represented in school textbooks or when included are depicted in traditional roles in many countries across the globe, according to the Global Education Monitoring Report by UNESCO. The annual report’s fourth edition launched recently, points out that not only the number of images of female characters included in the […]