18-03-2021 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India is not worried about some European Union countries suspending use of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine and will continue to roll out the shot in its huge immunization program “with full vigour”, a senior official said. The AstraZeneca shots are produced by India’s Serum Institute …
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WhatsApp condemns violence against Asian community in US 18-03-2021 CALIFORNIA/ ATLANTA: After the recent events of hate against the Asian American Community in the US, WhatsApp has condemned the acts of xenophobia, violence, and intolerance, in a statement issued Thursday. The widely-used app posted its message on Twitter with a …
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18-03-2021 Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Nine Afghan security force members died in a helicopter crash late on Wednesday, according to defence ministry. Two sources told media the helicopter was hit by a rocket during takeoff in central Maidan Wardak province. Meanwhile, four people were killed and nine wounded when a roadside …
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17-03-2021 By SJA Jafri + Agencies ATLANTA (GEORGIA)/ KARACHI: Each and every world of Press Media of India (PMI) and Karachi based Pakistani English Daily Messenger’s reporting has not only been proving 100 percent correct, true, confirm, establish and perfect along with the sensitivities of day, place, date and time …
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17-03-2021 By SJA Jafri + Agencies ABUJA/ KARACHI: Armed men in southwestern Niger have killed at least 58 Shia people when they intercepted a convoy returning from a weekly market and attacked a nearby village, the government said on Tuesday. The attacks on Monday occurred in the Tillabery region, which …
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17-03-2021 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: Delhi was the world’s most polluted capital for the third straight year in 2020, according to IQAir. IQAir is a Swiss group that measures air quality levels based on the concentration of lung-damaging airborne particles known as PM2.5. India was home to 35 of the …
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17-03-2021 COLOMBO: After criticism from allied states regarding Sri Lanka’s decision to impose a ban on Muslim women covering their full faces in public, the country on Tuesday said that it was “merely a proposal….under discussion.” Sri Lanka’s minister for public security, Sarath Weerasekera, had said on Saturday it would …
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17-03-2021 WEST BANK/ JERUSALEM: Israeli archaeologists on Tuesday announced the discovery of dozens of Dead Sea Scroll fragments bearing a biblical text found in a desert cave and believed hidden during a Jewish revolt against Rome nearly 1,900 years ago. The finds, preserved by the hot, dry air of the …
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16-03-2021 By SJA Jafri + BBC MAPUTO/ KARACHI/ DAMASCUS/ KABUL: The al-Qaeda and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria/ ISIS which has allegedly converted into Islamic State/ IS also known as Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant/ ISIL, Taliban, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, Daesh, Boko Haram and dozens of terrorists groups …
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16-03-2021 Bureau Report + Agencies PARIS/ MUMBAI/ NEW DELHI: France has found a new coronavirus variant in the French region of Brittany, said the French health ministry in a statement late Monday. According to media reports, the health ministry’s statement read that initial analysis did not show this new variant …
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