06-05-2021 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: The Indian cricket board is in hot waters as it would be losing up to $270 million in revenue after the Indian Premier League (IPL) was postponed due to the COVID-19 crisis in the country, a senior official told media on Wednesday. The world’s …

06-05-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ KANDAHAR/ ISLAMABAD: The fifth Shia TV journalist was shot dead in Afghanistan during this year while over 1600 absolute innocent  Shia-Muslims (most of them belong with Shia Hazara Community) have been martyred since 01st January 2021 until today (06-05-2021) exactly the same …

06-05-2021 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India has reported more than 400,000 coronavirus infections over the last 24 hours, while the number of dead from the virus rose to a record 3,980. The South Asian nation’s tally has surged past 21 million cases, boosted by a record 432,685 new infections. The …

06-05-2021 BY SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies WASHINGTON/ LONDON/ BRELIN: “Pakistanis” have not only been running the world since a long but also the entire development, modernization and advancement in all fields especially in education, medicine, invention, literature, science, human rights, politics and general awareness and civic sense …

06-05-2021 LONDON: The Group of Seven has scolded China and Russia, casting the Kremlin as malicious and Beijing as a bully, but beyond words, there were few concrete steps aside from expressing support for Taiwan and Ukraine. Founded in 1975 as a forum for the West’s richest nations to discuss …

05-05-2021 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India’s hospitals were packed with coronavirus patients, relatives of the sick scrambled to find supplies of oxygen, and nearly full crematoriums worked feverishly to deal with the dead. Yet, despite those clear signs of an overwhelming health crisis, Prime Minister Narendra Modi pressed ahead with …

05-05-2021 BAMAKO: A Malian woman has given birth to nine babies, joining a small group of mothers of nonuplets, according to Mali’s government. The pregnancy of Halima Cisse, 25, fascinated the country and attracted the attention of its leaders. When doctors in March said Cisse needed specialist care, authorities flew …

05-05-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ KANDAHAR/ ISLAMABAD: Thousands of Afghans fled their homes as fighting erupted between government forces and the Taliban in the country’s southern province days after the US military began its withdrawal from the war-torn country, officials said on Tuesday. Afghan forces pushed back …

05-05-2021 Bureau Report LONDON/ NEW DELHI: The UK and India have struck a deal allowing thousands of young adults to work and live in each other’s countries for two years. The Home Office said the scheme for 18 to 30-year-old professionals would allow “the brightest and best” to come to …

05-05-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report SYDNEY: Australian Test cricket great Stuart MacGill was allegedly kidnapped at gunpoint for ransom and then badly beaten. NSW Police confirmed the former leg spinner had allegedly been abducted, held and then released in an incident which occurred last month. Robbery and Serious …