New Delhi’4 Jan’2024: Thick clouds of smog shrouded parts of the national capital as the air quality across the metropolitan city continued to remain in ‘severe’ category on Tuesday, according to the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB). According to the data shared by the CPCB, the Air Quality Index (AQI) …

Thrissur (Kerala) ‘4 Jan 2024: Launching a series of attacks on the INDIA bloc, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said that the INDI alliance knows only one thing, that is, to hurt people’s faith and they made temples and festivals a medium for looting. The Prime Minister said the …

04-01-2024 BEIRUT: Hezbollah Chief Hassan Nasrallah warned Israel Wednesday against waging war on Lebanon, a day after a strike blamed on Israel killed Hamas’s number two in the group’s southern Beirut suburbs stronghold. “If the enemy thinks of waging a war on Lebanon, we will fight without restraint, without rules, …

04-01-2024 NEW JERSEY: Authorities in Newark said that an imam of a mosque was shot and killed at South Orange Avenue who was taken to hospital in a critical condition. As the authorities arrived at the scene, Sharif was found lying in the parking, 10 feet from the mosque entrance. …

04-01-2024 COLORADO: The “cyber kidnapping” scam that extorted the Chinese family of a foreign exchange student studying in the US is part of a larger criminal trend that parents across the globe could fall victim to, experts warned. Student Kai Zhuang was reported missing by his high school last week …

04-01-2024 BEIJING: Chinese company BYD sold more electric vehicles than Elon Musk’s Tesla in the last three months of 2023 as the two battled for top spot in the sector. BYD said on Monday it had sold a record 526,000 battery-only vehicles in the final quarter of 2023. It marked …

04-01-2024 TOKYO: A Japan Airlines plane burst into flames after a collision with a smaller coastguard aircraft on the runway at Tokyo’s Haneda airport. All 379 passengers and crew on board were evacuated, but five of the six crew on the coastguard plane died, police said. The captain was injured. …

04-01-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is not known to give interviews to the media. In late December he made an exception and spoke to the London-based Financial Times, which had first reported on how the United States government had thwarted an alleged plot …

04-01-2024 BEIRUT: Senior Hamas official Saleh al-Arouri has been martyred in an Israeli drone strike on Beirut’s southern suburb of Dahiyeh, the Palestinian group and Lebanese media outlets say. Al-Arouri was killed on Tuesday in a “treacherous Zionist strike”, Hamas said on its official channel. Hamas politburo member Izzat al-Sharq …

04-01-2024 TOKYO: At least 48 people have been reported dead after a massive earthquake hit the coast of central Japan on New Year’s Day. Authorities raised the death toll on Tuesday afternoon. Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has warned that the damage is “widespread,” and with rescue teams struggling to access …