30-08-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: Allegations. Resignations. Police complaints. These words have been dominating headlines and shaking up a bustling film industry in the southern Indian state of Kerala since last week. The state has been witnessing a flurry of sexual abuse allegations against some top male stars …

30-08-2024 VICTORIA: A Hong Kong court has found two former chief editors of the now-defunct pro-democracy news outlet Stand News guilty of sedition in a landmark case that has taken place amid a security crackdown in the China-ruled city. District Court judge Kwok Wai-kin announced the verdict on Thursday, declaring …

30-08-2024 BRUSSELS: The European Union’s foreign policy chief has urged the bloc’s 27 member states to impose sanctions against some Israeli ministers for their “hate messages” against Palestinians. Josep Borrell, speaking before the EU’s foreign and defence ministers’ meeting in Brussels on Thursday, said Israeli ministers had made statements that …

30-08-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: A $8.5bn (£6.43bn) merger between Disney and Reliance Industries has been provisionally approved by the India’s competition watchdog. The venture, in which billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries will have majority stake, will create India’s biggest entertainment player which will compete with Sony, Netflix …

30-08-2024 CARSON CITY: A former Nevada politician has been found guilty of first degree murder for the death of a journalist who wrote critical stories about his time in office. Robert Telles, 47, has been held in jail without bail since 2022 for the stabbing of Las Vegas Review-Journal investigative …

30-08-2023 WASHINGTON/ JERUSALEM: Five more Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces in a second day of raids in the occupied West Bank, with the UN calling for de-escalation. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said they were “five terrorists who had hidden inside a mosque” in Tulkarm, near the boundary …

29-08-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ KOLKATA: Thousands of protesters blocked train tracks, halted buses and shouted slogans in India’s state of West Bengal on Wednesday in the latest demonstration following the brutal rape and murder of a trainee doctor. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which …

29-08-2024 SANA’A: At least 24 people are missing as Yemen has been lashed by torrential rains that triggered floods, exacerbating the spread of waterborne diseases, the authorities said. The floods hit al-Mahwit, a province west of the capital, Sanaa, controlled by the Iran-aligned Houthi group, with landslides destroying seven homes …

29-08-2024 TOKYO: Japan has issued an emergency warning as a powerful typhoon approaches its southwest, prompting carmaker Toyota to shutter factories and airlines to cancel flights. The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) on Wednesday estimated that Typhoon Shanshan was situated 70km (43 miles) from Yakushima Island at 2pm (05:00 GMT), heading …

29-08-2024 DHAKA: Ekramul Haque was stunned when his uncle called him late in the afternoon of August 21 to inform him that floodwaters had inundated their ancestral home in southeastern Bangladesh’s Feni district, close to the Indian border. At the time, Haque was about 10km (6 miles) away in the …