31-07-2021 NEW DELHI: Former international cricketers are being threatened and warned by the Indian cricket board against taking part in the inaugural Kashmir Premier League (KPL) cricket tournament, organizers and players have said. The KPL is scheduled to start from August 6 in Muzaffarabad in Pakistan-administered Kashmir and will be …

31-07-2021 Bureau Report WASHINGTON/ ISLAMABAD: US President Joe Biden has appointed Pakistani-American lawyer Khizr Khan also a critic of ex-president Donald Trump and the father of a soldier slain in Baghdad as the commissioner for the US Commission on International Religious Freedom, according to a statement released from the White House. …

31-07-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: An Afghan security guard was killed on Friday when a United Nations compound came under attack in Herat, officials said, as fighting raged between government forces and the Taliban on the outskirts of the city in western Afghanistan. Violence …

  31-07-2021 JERUSALEM/ TEHRAN: Israel has accused Iran of being behind an attack on an oil tanker in which two crew members – a British national and a Romanian citizen – were killed. The MV Mercer Street, operated by the London-based company Zodiac Maritime, was off Oman’s coast in the …

31-07-2021 NEW YORK: The Delta variant of the coronavirus is as contagious as chickenpox and could cause severe illness, according to an internal document at the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), The New York Times reported on Friday. The variant has be blamed for the explosion …

30-07-2021 Bureau Report CANBERRA/ MELBOURNE/ NEW DELHI: The National Gallery of Australia is to return 14 works of art to India that are suspected of having been stolen, looted or exported illegally. The religious and cultural artifacts include sculptures, photos and a scroll and are worth around $2.2m (£1.57m). Gallery …

30-07-2021 PARIS: Poorer countries are still struggling to secure precious shots despite recent donations, despite more than four billion coronavirus vaccine doses being injected around the world. At least 4,014,302,550 doses had been injected into people’s arms by 1100 GMT on Thursday, according to tally based on official sources. Global …

30-07-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies ISLAMABAD/ KABUL/ WASHINGTON: The first flight evacuating Afghan interpreters and others who worked alongside the United States forces in Afghanistan has landed at Washington Dulles International Airport, the US government has announced. An airliner carrying 221 Afghans, including 57 children and …

29-07-2021 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ WASHINGTON: NEW DELHI: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken issued a veiled warning Wednesday about Indian democracy backsliding in his first official visit to Washington’s important ally. Rights groups say civil liberties and the space for dissent are under increasing attack in the …

29-07-2021 ALASKA: A shallow earthquake of magnitude 8.2 has struck the Alaska Peninsula, prompting tsunami warnings across the Pacific Ocean. The US Geological Survey (USGS) said the quake, which struck at 10:15pm (06:15 GMT Thursday), was at a depth of 35km (22 miles). In Alaska, the National Tsunami Warning Center …