22-04-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD/ KARACHI: 57 Shia Afghanis those were involved in worship were martyred while dozens wounded in a blast on Thursday that targeted a mosque in Mazar-e-Sharif, the capital of Balkh province. The Si-Dukan Mosque was hit by a blast while it was …

22-04-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies SAHYADRI/ NEW DELHI: In a horrific incident in India, police booked four men who allegedly raped, killed, and then ate a monitor lizard after cooking it, Vice reported. The incident took place at the Sahyadri Tiger Reserve, in the state of Maharashtra. The security footage …

22-04-2022 NEW YORK: As many as 26 million Americans have mostly or completely stopped reading the Bible, American Bible Society’s annual State of the Bible report revealed, and the decline might be linked to churches being shut due to coronavirus curbs. John Plake, lead researcher for the American Bible Society, …

22-04-2022 WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden’s administration said on Tuesday it would appeal a judge’s ruling ending a mask mandate on aeroplanes if public health officials deem it necessary to stem the spread of COVID-19. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to whom the administration was deferring, said that it …

22-04-2022 DAMASCUS: Anti-government protests are no longer common in areas of Syria under the control of President Bashar al-Assad. Protesters who took to the streets against him in the uprising that began in 2011 are now either cowed into silence, displaced, exiled, imprisoned, or worse. Yet, in the Druze-majority city …

Hyderabad’April 21; In a major boost to tertiary government healthcare facilities, the Telangana government on Thursday has sanctioned an amount of Rs 2,679 crore towards construction of three super-speciality hospitals in Hyderabad at LB Nagar, Sanathnagar and Alwal, Medchal-Malkajgiri. All the three super-speciality hospitals will function as autonomous institutions and will …

21-04-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Once again, another Shia mosque started bleeding with Shia Muslims in Afghanistan when Daesh (included ISIS/ ISIL/ TALIBAN/ AL-QAEDA/ IS/ TTP/ TTA/ LeJ/ SSP/ JeM/ and dozens other anti-Shia organizations and groups) pressed a device of extraordinary powerful explosive like they …

21-04-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ AHMEDABAD: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson arrived in India Thursday touting job-creating investment but facing long odds to get his reluctant counterpart Narendra Modi to back Western action against Russia. Johnson arrived in Gujarat, Modi’s home state and the ancestral home to half …

21-04-2022 LONDON: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is a step closer to being extradited to the United States following an order by a United Kingdom court. With Assange supporters gathered outside, the Westminster Magistrates’ court in London formally issued an order on Wednesday to extradite the Australian to the US to …

21-04-2022 ISTANBUL/ JERUSALEM GAZA/: Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan will hold a call with Israel’s President Isaac Herzog on Tuesday, after Israeli interventions on Palestinian worshippers at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque last week, Turkey’s foreign minister said. On Friday, at least 152 Palestinians were wounded in clashes with Israeli riot police inside …