New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch two innovative, customer-centric initiatives of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), the retail direct scheme and the integrated ombudsman scheme, via video-conferencing on Friday. In a statement on Thursday, the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) said the RBI Retail Direct Scheme is aimed at …

 ْNew Delhi: Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday urged Governors of all states to take initiatives to create awareness among the general public about climate change so that COP26 goals set by India can be achieved. He also requested governors to play an active role in ensuring the National Education Policy …

Srinagar: An unidentified militant was killed in an ongoing operation in Bemina area of Srinagar Wednesday evening, police said. Police said that an encounter broke out in Bemina after J&K Police and Central Reserve Police Force cordoned off the area after inputs of the presence of militants. “As cordon was being …

12-11-2021 LONDON/ DUBAI/ KARACHI: A London High Court has ruled that the decision to extradite Pakistani businessman Arif Naqvi to the United States should be delayed until a legal test on the capacity to resist the impulse of suicide is made in the case of Indian diamond tycoon Nirav Modi, …

11-11-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies ISLAMABAD/KABUL/ WASHINGTON: The new US special envoy for Afghanistan Thomas West will visit Pakistan this week for a meeting with the Taliban foreign minister and senior diplomats from China and Russia, a Pakistani official and the US State Department said. It …

11-11-2021 MELBOURNE/ SYDNEY/ BEIJING: Before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Raj Kiran Grewal, who lives in Mohali in India’s Punjab state, saw Australia as the ideal place to do her MBA but after spending 20 months trying to get around the country’s ultra-strict border controls, Grewal is so sick of “false hopes” …

11-11-2021 LONDON: The United Kingdom’s Supreme Court has blocked a planned 3.2 billion-pound ($4.3bn) British class action against Google over allegations the internet giant unlawfully tracked the personal information of millions of iPhone users. Britain’s top judges unanimously granted Google an appeal against the country’s first such data privacy case …

10-11-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: India is hosting senior security officials from Russia, Iran and five Central Asian countries to discuss the situation in Afghanistan, but no Afghan representative is in attendance. India’s archrival Pakistan and China also declined to attend the Delhi Regional …

10-11-2021 SANA’A: A female fashion model was awarded five years of imprisonment over “drug abuse” and “prostitution”. However, the charges were rejected by her defence and condemned by rights groups. Entisar al-Hammadi, 20, was arrested in February at a checkpoint while on her way to a photo-shoot in the Yemeni …

10-11-2021 ADDIS ABABA: At least nine United Nations staff members and their dependents have been detained in the Ethiopian capital, the world body said. A UN spokesperson said on Tuesday that the UN had submitted a request to Ethiopia’s foreign ministry to immediately rUN security officials have visited the detained …