31-01-2023 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: Most Adani Group shares fell sharply on Monday as the Indian conglomerate’s rebuttal of a US short seller’s criticism failed to pacify investors, deepening a market rout that has now led to losses of $65bn in the group’s stock values. Led by Asia’s richest man …

31-01-2023 JERUSALEM/ NABLUS: Israeli officers on Sunday sealed off the Jerusalem family home of a Palestinian gunman who killed seven people outside a synagogue on the outskirts of the city, police said, after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised “a swift response”. Seven people including a 14-year-old were shot dead on …

31-01-2023 GENEVA: All countries remain “dangerously unprepared” for the next pandemic, the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) has warned, saying future health crises could also collide with increasingly likely climate-related disasters. Despite three “brutal” years of the COVID-19 pandemic, strong preparedness systems are “severely …

31-01-2023 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies PESHAWAR: Dozens of people have been killed in a bomb attack targeting a mosque in a security compound in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, according to authorities. Muhammed Asim, a spokesperson for the Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar, told media …

30-01-2023 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India has approved its first nasal COVID vaccine. Made by Bharat Biotech, iNCOVACC is administered in the form of drops and stimulates an immune response in the tissues that line the nasal cavity. In September 2022, China had approved an inhaled COVID vaccine, administered in …

30-01-2023 JERUSALEM/ GAZA: Tens of thousands of Israelis have protested across the country against the right-wing government for the fourth consecutive week. The latest rally was held on Saturday, with demonstrators carrying Israeli flags on Kaplan Street in Tel Aviv chanting “No to dictatorship” and “Democracy”. As in the past …

30-01-2023 SINGAPORE: Interpol has issued an alert for a woman behind an elaborate exam-cheating scam in Singapore which involved phones and headphones taped to students. Poh Yuan Nie, 57, fronted the racket together with three accomplices, who have all been jailed. Poh, the former principal of a local tuition centre, …

30-01-2023 NEW DELHI: Indian billionaire Gautam Adani saw more than $20bn (£16bn) wiped off his fortune on Friday, after investors fled his companies for a second day prompted by fraud claims made by a US investment firm. The Adani Group has dismissed the report as malicious, but the response has …

30-01-2023 PYONGYANG: North Korea has denied providing arms to Russia after the United States accused Pyongyang of supplying rockets and missiles to the Russian Wagner Group and helping bolster Moscow’s forces in Ukraine. A senior North Korean official, in a statement on Sunday, slammed the US allegations as a “groundless …

30-01-2023 MEMPHIS: The city of Memphis in the United States has disbanded a police unit that included five officers charged with the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols, a Black motorist. Cerelyn ‘CJ’ Davis, the Memphis police chief, announced the move on Saturday, citing a “cloud of dishonor”. Davis said in …