23-12-2021 PHILADELPHIA: A US congresswoman has had her car and possessions snatched from her at gunpoint in a daylight carjacking in the city of Philadelphia. Mary Gay Scanlon’s government phone and ID were among belongings that the two robbers took. The Democrat was not injured, her office said. The FBI …

23-12-2021 PARIS: Dozens of French academics have warned that freedom of expression is at risk after a German professor was suspended over a row with politics students. Klaus Kinzler has been locked in dispute for months over accusations of Islamophobia at Sciences Po Grenoble. In a case that has provoked …

23-12-2021 GENEVA: As the new COVID-19 variant Omicron spreads rapidly across the globe, the World Health Organization’s European head has warned countries to brace for a “significant surge” and advised using boosters for protection from the widespread virus. As reported by The Guardian Tuesday, during a news conference in Vienna, …

23-12-2021 Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Afghanistan´s national museum is once again welcoming visitors and exhibiting pre-Islamic artefacts with the Taliban´s blessing, a stark contrast to when the group ransacked and shuttered the facility during their last stint in power. A trickle of citizens made their way around the sprawling exhibit …

23-12-2021 UNITED NATIONS/ SANA’A: The World Food Program has said it has been “forced” to cut aid to Yemen due to a lack of funds and warned there will be a surge in hunger in the war-torn country in the coming months. Nearly eight years of fighting between Saudi-backed government …

New Delhi: The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh has launched a massive outreach programme to Muslim women in the poll-bound Uttar Pradesh. As part of the move, senior RSS leader Indresh Kumar on Wednesday presided over a day-long meeting of the women wing of the RSS-affiliated Muslim Rashtriya Manch (MRM) in the …

Hyderabad: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) once again raised the agenda of renaming Hyderabad as Bhagyanagar by calling a three-day Samanwaya Baithak (coordination meeting) in the first week of January 2022 to review the working of affiliated organizations and preparations for upcoming assembly elections scheduled to take place …

Hyderabad: The crime rate in the city seems to be on a decline as 20,012 cases have been registered so far in 2021, as opposed to  22,641 the previous year. There were 25,187 criminal cases registered in 2019. City police commissioner Anjani Kumar mentioned that the city currently ranks 18th …

22-12-2021 NEW YORK/ WASHINGTON: The United States is providing the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Children’s Fund and five other global aid groups an additional $580m to fight COVID-19, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said. The pledge came on Tuesday as health officials in the US said …

22-12-2021 Bureau Report + Agencies UNITED NATIONS/ BEIJING/ KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: China, with Russia’s backing, has opposed a resolution proposed by the United States in the UN Security Council that would have provided a system for humanitarian exceptions to economic sanctions imposed on Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. “They want the deletion” of a …