16-04-2023 RIYADH/ SANA’A: Saudi Arabia and the Yemeni Houthi rebels have freed hundreds of prisoners of war as part of a multi-day exchange amid concerted efforts to end Yemen’s eight-year-old war, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). Saturday’s first flight left the southern Saudi city of …

16-04-2023 KHARTOUM: Sudan’s military and a powerful paramilitary force have engaged in fierce fighting in the capital and elsewhere in the country, dealing a new blow to hopes for a transition to democracy and raising fears of a wider conflict. The fighting killed at least 27 people and wounded more …

16-04-2023 PARIS: French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday signed into law his highly disfavored pension reforms, lifting the pension age from 62 to 64. The signing came hours after France’s top constitutional body cleared the change. The Constitutional Council annulled the opposition’s demand for a referendum however, it also removed …

16-04-2023 BERLIN: Germany’s final three nuclear power plants close their doors on Saturday, marking the end of the country’s nuclear era that has spanned more than six decades. Nuclear power has long been contentious in Germany. There are those who want to end reliance on a technology they view as …

Punjab ;April ;15 2023-The Hoshiarpur police in Punjab have arrested three folks, together with a lawyer, for allegedly serving to ‘Waris Punjab De’ chief Amritpal Singh, who’s absconding since March 18. Reportedly two individuals are from Jalandhar district and one is from Babak village of Hoshiarpur. Nevertheless, the officers have …

Hubballi “April ;15 2023-Because the two-day deadline given by senior chief and former Chief Minister Jagdish Shettar to the BJP to announce his candidature from Hubballi-Dharwad Central constituency for the Karnataka Meeting polls ends on Saturday, the chief is prone to declare his future transfer. Shettar has referred to as …

Maharashtra: 12 people were killed when a bus fell into a canal. 25 others were injured. The incident took place in Raigad district of Maharashtra. Mumbai ;April ;15 2023-(PMI) A bus fell into a canal in Raigad district of Maharashtra. 12 passengers died in this accident. 25 others were injured. The police said that …

15-04-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ MUMBAI: A group of historians from India’s leading universities have slammed recent revisions to school textbooks that include removing or trimming references to Islamic rule in the subcontinent and to the anger among some Hindu extremists at independence leader Mahatma Gandhi’s pursuit of …

15-04-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies PERTH/ SYDNEY: A powerful cyclone has hit Western Australia as a category five storm, setting a wind speed record but sparing populated areas from major damage. Severe Tropical Cyclone Ilsa struck the state close to Port Hedland, the world’s largest iron ore export hub, just …

15-04-2023 MINNEAPOLIS: Minneapolis has agreed to pay nearly $9m (£7.2m) to settle lawsuits filed by two black residents against Derek Chauvin. Both residents, who were arrested in 2017, said Chauvin had pressed his knee into their necks, the same tactic that killed George Floyd three years later. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob …