Top News

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 …

30-05-2022 CANNES, FRANCE: Iranian Zar Amir Ebrahimi, who lives in exile following a smear campaign about her love life, wept with joy as she won the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival. Ebrahimi, 41, won for Holy Spider, in which she plays a journalist trying to solve the …

30-05-2022 NEW YORK/ BERMUDA: In an outlandish offer, a cruise company has told passengers that they will get a complete refund if their ship disappears during their trip to the mysterious Bermuda Triangle. The Bermuda Triangle is a popular mystery with many ships and flights having disappeared in the region. …

30-05-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies LONDON/ ISLAMABAD: Some prominent infectious disease experts are pushing for faster action from global health authorities to contain a growing monkeypox outbreak that has spread to at least 20 countries. They are arguing that governments and the World Health Organization should not repeat the early …

30-05-2022 JERUSALEM: Flag-waving Jewish nationalists are set to march through the heart of the Muslim quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City on Sunday in a parade that could re-ignite violence between Israelis and Palestinians. The annual Jerusalem procession celebrates Israel’s capture of the Old City in the 1967 Middle East war …

29-05-2022 KATHMANDU: A small plane with 22 people on board flying on a popular tourist route was missing in Nepal’s mountains on Sunday. The Tara Airlines plane, which was on a 15-minute scheduled flight to the mountain town of Jomsom, took off from Pokhara, 200km (124 miles) east of Kathmandu. …

29-05-2022 By SJA Jafri + Agencies + Bureau Report UNITED NATIONS/ BEIJING/ KARACHI: The UN human rights chief has defended her China trip as she was accused of failing to hold Beijing accountable for its alleged human rights abuses, saying she raised concerns with officials about the treatment of Uighur …