01-06-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ BENGALURE: India expects rainfall in the biggest coal-producing areas of its east-central region to be below the long-term average this year, potentially easing utilities’ coal shortages as there could be fewer disruptions to mining activity due to flooding. East-central India includes the states …

01-06-2022 EAST JERUSALEM: Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh has described attacks by far-right Israelis in occupied East Jerusalem as “aggression which crossed all red lines”. Tens of thousands of flag-waving, ultranationalist Israelis raided the Muslim quarter of the Old City on Sunday during the so-called “flag march”. The provocative march …

01-06-2022 GENEVA/ UNITED NATIONS: The tobacco industry is a far greater threat than many realize as it is one of the world’s biggest polluters, from leaving mountains of waste to driving global warming, the World Health Organization has warned in a new report. The WHO report Tobacco: Poisoning Our Planet, …

01-06-2022 JERUSALEM/ DUBAI: Israel signed a free trade agreement with the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday, it’s first with an Arab state and one which eliminates most tariffs and aims to lift their annual bilateral trade to more than $10 billion. It was signed in Dubai by Minister of Economy …

31-05-2022 WASHINGTON: The husband of U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was arrested on suspicion of drunk driving late on Saturday in Napa County, California after being involved in a two-vehicle crash, the California Highway Patrol said on Sunday. Paul Pelosi, 82, was booked into the Napa County Detention Center after …

31-05-2022 PARIS: The Mona Lisa was attacked but unharmed when a visitor to the Louvre in Paris tried to smash the glass protecting the world’s most famous painting before smearing cake across its surface in an apparent environment-related publicity stunt. Videos posted on social media show a young man in …

31-05-2022 LONDON, May 30 (Reuters) – Britain’s cheapest brands of pasta and bread have surged in price over the past year, but overall the cost of lower-priced food and drink staples has risen at a similar pace to average prices, the Office for National Statistics said. Anti-poverty campaigners have pointed …

31-05-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: The parent company of India’s ShareChat has raised nearly $300 million in fresh funding from Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google, media giant Times Group and Singapore’s Temasek Holdings, valuing the social media firm at nearly $5 billion, two sources involved in the deal discussions told Reuters. …

30-05-2022 KATHMANDU: Rescue workers in Nepal have so far recovered 14 bodies from the crash site of a small plane carrying 22 people that went down in a remote region, an airport official said on Monday. “The search for others is continuing,” said Tek Raj Sitaula, a spokesman for the …

30-05-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies NASIRIYAH/ BAGHDAD/ KARACHI: Spraying a cow with pesticides, health workers target blood-sucking ticks at the heart of Iraq’s worst detected outbreak of a fever that causes people to bleed to death. The sight of the health workers, dressed in the full …