05-05-2022 BEIJING/SHANGHAI: The Chinese capital Beijing shut dozens of metro stations and bus routes on Wednesday in its campaign to stop the spread of COVID-19 and avoid the fate of Shanghai where millions of residents have been under strict lockdown for more than a month. New evidence has emerged that …

Hyderabad’May 4;2022- In a massive major seizure at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport, the Hyderabad Customs have seized heroin worth Rs.11.53 Crores weighing1.389 kilograms from a Tanzanian national. According to the Customs officials, the passenger arrived from Johannesburg (via Abu Dhabi) by Flight EY-274 on April 26. “The passenger was …

04-05-2022 JERUSALEM: The Israeli regime is holding more than 600 Palestinian detainees without charge or trial in its detention centers across the occupied territories, a rights group said. HaMoked, an Israeli rights group that regularly gathers figures from the regime’s prison authorities, announced on Monday that as of May there …

04-05-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ BERLIN: German Chancellor Olaf Scholz pledged 10 billion euros ($10.51 billion) to help India achieve its climate goals after meeting its Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Berlin on Monday, but the leaders remained far apart in their stance on the Ukraine war. In …

04-05-2022 MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree on retaliatory economic sanctions in response to the “unfriendly actions of certain foreign states and international organizations”, the Kremlin said on Tuesday. The document does not provide any details of which individuals or entities may be affected by the measures. …

04-05-2022 WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden on Tuesday criticized as “radical” a draft US Supreme Court decision that would overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion nationwide, a bombshell that was denounced by Democrats and stunned even some moderate Republicans. The court confirmed that the text, published …

03-05-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India’s western state of Maharashtra has registered 25 deaths from heatstroke since late March, the highest toll in the past five years, with more fatalities likely elsewhere in a country sweltering in temperatures over 40 degrees Celsius. Scientists have linked the early onset of an …

03-05-2022 UNITED NATIONS/ LONDON/ NEW YORK/ KABUL/ ISLAMABAD/ NEW DELHI: Every year on May 3, UNESCO commemorates World Press Freedom Day to spotlight media freedom around the world. This year, UNESCO’s theme, Journalism Under Digital Siege, will focus on the effect of digitization on freedom of expression, access to information …

03-05-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ DAMASCUS/ ISLAMABAD: The US Special Envoy for Afghanistan’s women, girls and human rights, Rina Amiri, said that at an Iftar dinner ambassadors from Muslim-majority countries “agreed that the Muslim world must champion the rights of Afghan women and girls.” Amiri said that …

03-05-2022 KYIV: Efforts to evacuate more civilians from the devastated Ukrainian port city of Mariupol ran into delays on Monday and hundreds of people remained trapped in the Azovstal steelworks, the last stronghold of resistance to the Russian siege. It was not immediately clear what was causing the hold-up. A …