05-05-2021 LONDON: The Group of Seven foreign ministers’ meeting in London was hit by a COVID-19 scare on Wednesday when India’s foreign minister and his entire team said they were self-isolating after two delegation members tested positive. Britain is hosting the three-day meeting – the first such G7 event in …

Syed Hussain Ali Sajjad Hyderabad May 4:  Matami Juloos-e-Taboot Shahadat-e-Moula-e-Kaiyenaat Hzt Ali Ibne Abu Taliba.s was taken out today 21st Ramazan 1442 (H) correspondence to 4th May 2021 Tuesday from Historical Charminar Hyderabad after Namaz-e-Fajr and reached Badshahi Ashoorkhana at 06:00 AM and culminated into Majlise Pursa organized by Shia …

4-05-2021 By Syed Hussain Ali Sajjad + Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ KARACHI/ TEHRAN/ BAGHDAD/ KABUL/ MELBOURNE: Despite fastest rise of COVID-19 infections, deaths and vaccinations and beside strict bans on processions and gatherings and neglecting all types of rumors and possible reactions, threats and results, millions of people observed Youm-e-Ali …

04-05-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KARACHI/ KABUL/ PARIS: The International Press Institute, an international organization that protects journalism against censorship, warns that dictatorial-minded governments are stepping up their efforts to suppress free media. According to the annual report of the institute, which was released on the occasion of …

04-05-2021 MEDINA (WASHINGTON): Billionaire couple Bill Gates and Melinda Gates on Monday afternoon announced they had decided to end their 27-year long marriage as “they can no longer grow as a couple”. The announcement from one of the world’s wealthiest couples, with an estimated net worth of some $130 billion, …

By Syed Hussain Ali Sajjad Hyderabad May 3: Qaoumi Matami Juloos-e-Shahadat-e-Moula-e-Kaiyenat Hzt Ali Ibne Abu Taliba.s was taken out today 20th Ramazan 1442 (H) correspondence to 3rd May 2021 Monday from Charminar Hyderabad at 11:30 AM well before its scheduled time of 3:00 PM and reached Masjid-e-Imamia Tahmas khanpura about …

03-05-2021 TEHRAN: Iran’s Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, issued an apology Sunday for comments that he said “annoyed” the country’s supreme leader. Recordings surfaced late last month of Zarif, long the public face of Iranian diplomacy, saying the Revolutionary Guards had far more influence in foreign and nuclear affairs than …

03-05-2021 WASHINGTON/ BEIJING: An increasingly powerful China is challenging the world order, acting “more repressively” at home and “more aggressively” overseas as it tests its growing influence, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said, in an interview on US television. “What we’ve witnessed over the last several years is …

03-05-2021 PARIS: The “World Press Freedom Day” is being observed across the world, with emphasis on defeating censorship and journalists resolving to keep pursuing their mission without compromising their ideals. According to UNESCO, the theme for this year’s World Press Freedom Day is “Information as a Public Good”. “It serves as …

03-05-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: The incumbent chief minister’s party in India’s West Bengal state has defeated Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party in state elections held as the coronavirus pandemic surged to crisis levels. Modi has been criticized for focusing on the elections instead …