18-01-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies MELBOURNE: Russian and Belarusian flags have been banned from the Australian Open tennis tournament after a courtside incident. Spectators were initially permitted to bring the flags into Melbourne Park on the condition they did not cause “disruption” but the organizers reversed that decision on Tuesday, …

18-01-2023 Vietnam’s President Nguyen Xuan Phuc has submitted his resignation after the ruling Communist Party found him responsible for violations and wrongdoing of numerous officials under him, the country’s official news agency has said. Phuc, 68, has held the largely ceremonial position for less than two years. It was not …

18-01-2023 OCCUPIED EAST HERUSALEM: The new Israeli government, led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has already begun working on pushing through its far-right policies, after coming into office on December 29. The proposed changes would severely impact both internal Israeli politics and policies towards Palestinians in Israel and in the …

18-01-2023 BEIJING/ HONG KONG: China’s population fell last year for the first time in six decades, a historic turn that is expected to mark the start of a long period of decline in its citizen numbers with profound implications for its economy and the world. The drop, the worst since …

NewsDelhi Jan 16’2023–India becoming the fifth-largest economy in the world, work done for inclusive development, effective COVID management, and N’massive infrastructure development among others were part of the social and economic resolution that came up on the second day of BJP’s National Executive meeting today, January 17. Briefing media about …

Hyderabad, Jan.17 (PMI):The prestigious G-20 group meetings will be held here from January 28. They will be held till June 17 this year. State DGP Anjani Kumar held a high level review meeting to take stock of security arrangements being made for holding the meetings in the State capital. Speaking …

18-01-2023 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has called for talks with India to discuss “burning issues such as Kashmir” while asking the United Arab Emirates to play a role in resolving the differences between the two neighbors. Terming the UAE a “brotherly country” …

17-01-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: In the hours after Nepal’s deadliest plane crash for 30 years, a video went viral in India – it showed one of the victims, Sonu Jaiswal, livestreaming from the plane just seconds before the crash. He was part of a group of four …

17-01-2023 By SJA Jafri + Agencies KUALA LUMPUR: For Arthur Wilkinson, a Penang-born entrepreneur who opened Malaysia’s first flotation therapy centre on his tropical island home, nearly two years without tourists marked the end of the road. Float For Health, located in Tanjung Tokong, a coastal township on the northeastern …

17-01-2023 OUAGADOUGOU: Gunmen abducted some 50 women in Burkina Faso’s northern province of Soum on January 12 and 13, the government says. Armed men seized the women as they were picking wild fruit outside the village of Liki, about 15 kilometres (9.32 miles) from the town of Aribinda, and in …