29-06-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report GAYAN/ KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: When a magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck eastern Afghanistan last week, Naqib lost his home and nearly his whole family. His parents and four siblings now lie buried on a hilltop overlooking the remote district of Gayan in hard-hit Paktika province. …

29-06-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: Police in India’s capital New Delhi have arrested a Muslim journalist for allegedly hurting religious sentiment in what critics say is the latest example of declining press freedom in the country under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government. Mohammed Zubair, co-founder of India’s leading fact-checking website …

29-06-2022 PARIS: Moody’s ratings agency has confirmed that Russia defaulted on its foreign debt for the first time in a century, after bond holders did not receive $100 million in interest payments. The historic default follows a series of unprecedented Western sanctions that have increasingly isolated Russia from the global …

29-06-2022 ISTANBUL/ WASHINGTON: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday he would meet US President Joe Biden on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Madrid for talks on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the bloc’s expansion into two Nordic states. Analysts believe the meeting could play a crucial …

29-06-2022 AQABA/ AMMAN: Amman: A poisonous gas leak in Jordan’s southern port city of Aqaba has killed at least 13 people and injured some 250, authorities said. Video carried by state-run media outlets showed a crane hoisting a large tanker from a truck and then dropping it on the deck …

Hyderabad;June 29 2022:A three-tier security setup has been put in place for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Hyderabad to attend the BJP’s National Executive Committee meeting at HICC Novotel on July 2 and to address a public meeting at Parade Grounds on July 3. The first tier will have …

Udaipur’June 29 2022:Curfew remained clamped in seven police station areas of the city on Wednesday and mobile Internet services suspended across all 33 districts of Rajasthan after a tailor was brutally murdered here by two men, triggering stray cases of violence. Heavy deployment of police has been made in the …

Udaipur ‘June 29 2022:An assistant sub-inspector (ASI) of Dhan Mandi police station in Udaipur was on Tuesday suspended for negligence following the murder of a tailor there. Two men with a cleaver killed Kanhaiya Lal in Udaipur city’s Dhan Mandi area and posted videos online that said they are avenging …

Udaipur’June 28 2022:Two men slit the throat of a tailor in Udaipur on Monday, saying in a video post on social media that they are avenging an insult to Islam and triggering communal tension in the Rajasthan city. Cops have arrested two persons in the case. Additional police force was …

28-06-2022 ELMAU CASTLE/ MUNICH: G7 leaders will condemn China’s “distorting” international trade practices in an end-of-summit statement on Tuesday, a senior US official said. “You’ll see leaders release a collective statement, which is unprecedented in the context of the G7, acknowledging the harms caused by China’s non-transparent, market distorting, industrial …