18-06-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies SAINT PAUL/ NEW YORK: George Floyd’s brother on Wednesday begged the United Nations to help African Americans because “Black lives do not matter in the United States”, as the UN’s rights chief urged reparations for centuries of discrimination. Philonise Floyd made an impassioned speech via …

18-06-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ BEIJING: India has cautioned China against making “exaggerated and untenable claims” on the sovereignty of the Galwan Valley area even as both nations tried to end a standoff in the high Himalayan region where their armies engaged in a …

18-06-2020 KATHMANDU/ NEW DELHI: The upper house of Nepal’s Parliament has approved a new map for the country, including land controlled by India, in a row that has strained ties between the South Asian neighbors. India, which controls the region – a slice of land including Limpiyadhura, Lipulekh and Kalapani …

17-06-2020 TEHRAN/ BEIRUT: Hezbollah Secretary General Seyed Hassan Nasrallah censured the US sanctions against Syria, stressing that they have failed to achieve their desired results. In a televised speech on Tuesday on the martyrdom anniversary of the sixth Shiite Imam, Imam Ja’far Sadeq (AS), and the demise of former leader …

17-06-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies + Int’l Monitoring Desk NEW DELHI/ BEIJING/ ISLAMABAD: India’s prime minister has said the deaths of at least 20 soldiers in a fight with Chinese troops in a disputed Himalayan border area “will not be in vain”. Narendra Modi said India …

By Syed Jaffer Abbas Jafri (Bureau Chief Australia) KARACHI: The Sindh Assembly (SA) unanimously passed a resolution seeking to make it mandatory to write Khatam-un-Nabiyyin with the Holy Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH) on Monday. Muhammad Hussain of the MQM-P presented the resolution. It demanded that it should be made mandatory …

17-06-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ BEIJING: At least 20 Indian soldiers have been killed in a violent face-off with Chinese forces on the disputed border, the Indian army has said, in a major escalation of a weeks-long standoff in the western Himalayas. In a …

17-06-2020 LONDON: A cheap and widely available drug can help save the lives of patients seriously ill with coronavirus. The low-dose steroid treatment dexamethasone is a major breakthrough in the fight against the deadly virus, UK experts say. The drug is part of the world’s biggest trial testing existing treatment to …

17-06-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies ADELAIDE/ MELBOURNE: Police in South Australia have launched an investigation after an officer was filmed appearing to strike an Aboriginal man during an arrest. The 28-year-old man was arrested by police in Kilburn, a suburb of Adelaide, on Monday night. Footage …

Hyderabad June 17 (PMI): The encroachment of land and grabbing issues are spiking where a government body is helping persons who are wrongfully claiming properties and real owners are being harassed under political pressure. In one such case, GHMC Alwal Circle-27 is being alleged of supporting land grabbers Sri Vehnkateshwara …