09-06-2026 OTTAWA/ HOUSTON: Canada’s food inspection agency has announced a temporary ban on livestock from the US state of Texas after flesh-eating screwworms were discovered in calves this week. Cows and horses that were in Texas anytime within 21 days before crossing the border into Canada would not be accepted …

Markazi Anjuman’s Doors Are Open to All;  Last Year’s 8 Rabi-ul-Awwal Incident Will Not Be Allowed to Recur: Elephant for Bibi’s Alam Procession is Nizam Trust’s Responsibility;  Consultations on Arbaeen Arrangements to Be Held After 10th Muharram Hyderabad, June 8 (Ali Abbas-PMI) An important meeting of mourning organizations (Matami Tanzeems) …

08-06-2026 BEIJING: Antelope Reef is a small, teardrop-shaped island in the north-western corner of the South China Sea and, until recently, almost entirely underwater but this year it has undergone a dramatic transformation. Millions of tons of sand have been dredged from the sea bed to create solid land. From …

08-06-2026 GAZA STRIP: At least 11 Palestinians have been killed, including women and children, and dozens wounded in Israeli air strikes across Gaza City, according to medical sources and eyewitnesses. Israeli aircraft struck at least four residential buildings in the Sheikh Radwan and Tel al-Hawa neighborhoods and Shati refugee camp …

08-06-2026 KATHMANDU: A Nepali climbing guide thought to have died on Mount Everest has been found crawling down to Base Camp, six days after he was last seen alive. Dawa Sherpa was last seen above Camp 3, at around 7,500m (24,600ft), while coming down the mountain after summiting. Hopes for …

08-06-2026 WASHINGTON: The US House of Representatives has passed a measure that seeks to halt President Donald Trump from taking further military action in Iran. The 215-208 vote, which is largely symbolic, was successful after four Republicans joined Democrats in a public show of disapproval of the war, which began …

08-06-2026 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: Are electric vehicles finally going mainstream in India? A slew of indicators suggests the transition may finally be gathering momentum. The market for electric cars expanded by a solid 25% in the year ending March 2026, while EVs crossed the important 5% threshold in India’s …

08-06-2026 JAKARTA: Indonesian officials on Wednesday arrested the former head of the country’s free school meals program, blighted by mass food poisonings and corruption claims, a day after he was fired. The much-hyped billion-dollar feeding scheme was the flagship policy of President Prabowo Subianto’s 2024 election campaign. Prabowo fired Dadan …

08-06-2026 DUBAI/ TEHRAN: The Sea is sometimes so tranquil that Captain Hassan Khan forgets his ship has been stuck in the middle of a war zone for three months. “It is really strange that everything looks normal outside but people inside are not calm,” says the Pakistani sailor, who doesn’t …

07-06-2026 MOSCOW: If Vladimir Putin’s Russia had an official slogan, what would it be? “Russia is what it is, and we’re not ashamed of showing it,” Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov once told me in an interview. That fits but I recently heard an updated version from veteran pop and folk …