22-09-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies UNITED NATIONS/ ISLAMABAD: United States President Joe Biden on Thursday highlighted the devastation caused by the floods in Pakistan and asked the international community to help flood-hit Pakistan. The recent unprecedented monsoon rains triggered floods across the country that have caused massive devastation. More than …

22-09-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: RRR, which was supposedly going to be nominated for the Oscars 2023 making India’s official entry to the Academy Awards and it has been disregarded by the Film Federation of India. Instead, they picked up the Gujrati film Chhellow Show. The US Distributor of the …

22-09-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies MELBOURNE: Australia’s Federal Court has ruled in favour of an Indigenous group’s challenge against a drilling permit for Santos Ltd’s Barossa gas development, in what the Santos Company called a “disappointing” setback for the $3.6bn project. Traditional landowners from the Tiwi Islands led by Dennis …

22-09-2022 TEHRAN: Several Iranian government and state-affiliated media websites are down after a Twitter account linked to the “Anonymous” hacker collective claimed to have launched cyberattacks on them, aimed at supporting protests following the death of Mahsa Amini. The 22-year-old woman from the northwestern province of Kurdistan died in Tehran …

22-09-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies UNITED NATIONS/ KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: After pleading with world leaders at the United Nations to protect the education and rights of women in Afghanistan a year after the Taliban took over, Somaya Faruqi, the former captain of the Afghan girls’ robotics team, …

Report by Syed Hussain Ali Sajjad The 40th day Chehlum of Shohda-e-Karbala (Arbayeen) was observed on 20th Safar 1444 (H) corresponding to 18th September 2022 marked by thousands of mourners of Hazrat Imam Hussaina.s the second grandson of Prophet Mohammed Mustafas.a.w.s who offered martyrdom along with his 71 companion in …

21-09-2022 LONDON: The tensions between Hindus and Muslims that broke out after the August 28 hi-octane Pakistan vs India match in the recently concluded Asia Cup 2022 have spread to Birmingham, England after weeks of unrest in the multicultural city of Leicester. The violence has made headlines in India and …

21-09-2022 Bureau Report SYDNEY: Australian animal shelters are overflowing, and the wait to return animals can be as long as eight months as pet owners return to work and face rising costs. “In all the 20 years that I’ve been in rescue I have never seen it like this,” says …

21-09-2022 UNITED NATIONS: Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan met on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly on Tuesday for the first face-to-face talks between leaders of the US-allied nations since 2008, Lapid’s office said. Israel-Turkey relations, long-frosty amid feuding over the Palestinian cause, have …

21-09-2022 TEHRAN/ DUBAI: Protests raged for a fourth straight day across Iran on Tuesday and authorities said three people had been killed during unrest over the death of a young woman in police custody. The death last week of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini who was arrested by morality police for “unsuitable …