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 …
Read More »Tens of thousands of Israelis continue anti-gov’t protests
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 …
Read More »Interpol seeks Singaporean over exam cheating scam
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, …
Read More »Indian billionaire Adani hit by fraud claims
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 …
Read More »North Korea denies arming Russia’s Wagner group
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 …
Read More »Memphis disbands police unit linked to Tyre Nichols’s beating
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 …
Read More »Netanyahu plans to arm Israelis after Jerusalem attack
30-01-2023 JERUSALEM: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced plans to make it easier for Israelis to get firearms amid escalating violence in the occupied Palestinian territory, a move seen as “collective punishment” and one that could further increase the violence. Netanyahu announced the measure late on Saturday after convening a …
Read More »BJP-Khalistan supporters clash in Melbourne
29-01-2023 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies MELBOURNE: Except neither all Australian intelligence & secret services, Law Enforcing Agencies (LEAs) even police were unaware about one of the world’s biggest Khalistan movements nor none of one official was present at Melbourne’s voting place until conflict between political activists …
Read More »India ‘expects’ more clashes with Chinese troops in Himalayas
29-01-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: A security assessment by Indian police in the Himalayan region of Ladakh says there could be more clashes between Indian and Chinese troops along their contested frontier there as Beijing ramps up military infrastructure in the region. At least 24 soldiers were killed …
Read More »New Zealand starts clean-up after deadly flash floods
29-01-2023 WELLINGTON: Authorities in New Zealand’s biggest city, Auckland, began mopping up on Saturday after torrential rains brought flash flooding and evacuations, with at least two people confirmed dead and two missing in the widespread inundation. A state of emergency remained in place in the city of 1.6 million people …
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