26-03-2021 Bureau Report + Agencies DHAKA/ NEW DELHI/ ISLAMABAD: Bangladesh police on Thursday fired rubber bullets and tear gas at hundreds of mainly student demonstrators who were protesting against an ongoing visit by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Police said the protest got out of hand as demonstrators marched in …

26-03-2021 ISMAILIA (EGYPT): The Suez Canal temporarily suspended traffic on Thursday as efforts to dislodge a 400 m (430 yard) long container vessel that has blocked the waterway continued for a third day, with eight tugs working to straighten the ship. The Ever Given vessel, almost as long as the …

26-03-2021 ANKARA/ BEIJING: Turkey has raised the issue of Uighur Muslims during talks with China’s foreign minister in Ankara, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said, as hundreds of Uighurs protested against the treatment of their ethnic kin in China. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met Cavusoglu and later President Tayyip …

25-03-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies SYDNEY/ QUEENSLAND: Neither the local and national rulers know about the meaning of “mice’s flood” nor want to know because they do not have any time for people except to get money traditionally while neither they can realize the sensitivity of …

25-03-2021 TOKYO: The Olympic torch relay set off from Fukushima on Thursday, starting a four-month countdown to the postponed games set to be held in Japan’s capital Tokyo. The relay is being viewed as a test for the Olympics and their popularity after the Games were postponed last year amid the global coronavirus pandemic. …

25-03-2021 PYONGYANG: North Korea has fired two ballistic missiles into the Sea of Japan, says the US and Japan – the first such test since Joe Biden became US president. Pyongyang is banned from testing ballistic missiles, which are considered threatening weapons, under UN Security Council resolutions. Japan said no …

24-03-2021 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ ISLAMABAD: A new double mutant variant of the coronavirus and 771 others have been detected in samples collected from 18 states across India. Of the 10,787 samples, 736 were positive for the UK variant, 34 for the South African variant and one for the Brazilian …

24-03-2021 Bureau Report DUBAI/ ISLAMABAD: The United Arab Emirates finance minister and the deputy ruler of the emirate of Dubai, Sheikh Hamdan bins Rashid Al Maktoum, has died, Dubai’s ruler said on Twitter on Wednesday. Sheikh Hamdan, aged 75, was the brother of the current ruler of Dubai Sheikh Mohammed …

24-03-2021 JERUSALEM: Exit polls indicated there is no clear winner in Israel’s election, leaving Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s fate uncertain and signaling continued political deadlock. The polls on Israel’s three main TV stations late Tuesday showed Netanyahu and his religious and nationalist allies, as well as diverse array of opponents, …

24-03-2021 By SJA Jafri + Agencies UNITED NATIONS/ RIYADH/ ANKARA: A senior official issued a death threat against UN investigator Agnes Callamard following her inquiry into the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, media reported on Tuesday. In an interview with the British newspaper, the outgoing special rapporteur on extrajudicial, …