21-02-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ MUMBAI: Some of India’s top airlines have been ordered to start sending out passengers’ bags within 10 minutes of the plane’s engine shutting down. The civil aviation ministry has said that passengers’ luggage should be delivered to them within 10 to 30 minutes …

21-02-2024 CAIRO/ SANA’A: The crew of a Belize-flagged, British-registered cargo vessel have abandoned ship off Yemen after it was hit by missiles fired by the Houthi movement. The Rubymar was in the Gulf of Aden and nearing the Bab al-Mandab Strait when it was struck, security firms said. The vessel, …

21-02-2024 KABUL: A landslide caused by heavy snowfall has killed 25 people and injured eight others in the eastern Afghan province of Nuristan, a disaster management ministry spokesman said on Monday. Earth, snow and rubble swept through the village of Nakre in the Tatin valley of Nuristan overnight on Sunday. …

21-02-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies SYDNEY/ LONDON: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange begins what could be his last chance to stop his extradition from Britain to the United States on Tuesday after more than 13 years battling the authorities in the English courts. US prosecutors are seeking to put Assange, 52, …

21-02-2024 JERUSALEM/ RAFAH: Israel’s Prime Minister missed the chance to starve Hamas of cash, years before its murderous attack last October, according to a former senior Israeli intelligence officer. Udi Levy has told media he advised Benjamin Netanyahu to target Hamas’s finances. He believes this would have hampered the group’s …

20-02-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ MUMBAI: The Indian government has offered guaranteed support prices for pulses, corn and cotton in a bid to break a deadlock with protesting farmers, Trade Minister Piyush Goyal said after week-long clashes between security forces and protesters. Tear gas and barricades were used …

20-02-2024 NEW YORK: Israel’s war on Gaza has seemingly reached the streets of New York. Not only has it pitched New Yorkers against the government and their elected representatives but also caused fissures among Pakistani Americans. This fact has become more evident during the recent special by-election in New York’s …

20-02-2024 WASHINGTON/ SANA’A: The United States has conducted five strikes in areas of Yemen controlled by Houthi rebels, US Central Command (CENTCOM) has said. It said it struck three mobile anti-ship cruise missiles, one unmanned surface vessel, and one unmanned underwater vessel (UUV) on Saturday. “This is the first observed …

20-02-2024 GAZA CITY: Footage verified by media shows hundreds of Palestinians in Gaza City rushing towards aid trucks before fleeing after Israeli forces open fire at them. Gaza’s Health Ministry says an eighth person has died at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis after the Israeli military cut electricity and oxygen …

20-02-2024 WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden has assured his Ukrainian counterpart that $60bn in military aid is on its way. The measure still needs to pass a final congressional vote, but Mr Biden told Volodymyr Zelensky that he was confident it would be approved. Zelensky had earlier made an urgent …