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19-01-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: Immediately after becoming the prime minister in 2014, Narendra Modi held backdoor negotiations with the Finance Commission of India to significantly cut funds allocated to the country’s states. However, the head of the commission, an independent constitutional body deciding states’ shares from central …

19-01-2024 CENTRAL GAZA SRTIP: Palestinians in Gaza’s smallest refugee camp have once again found themselves digging the bodies of their relatives out from under rubble, hours after Israeli forces announced their withdrawal from the area. Witnesses in the Maghazi refugee camp say many of the residents were shot at close …

19-01-2024 DUBAI: In a defiant response to the United States’ decision to designate Yemen’s Houthis as a “terrorist” entity once again, the Iran-backed group claimed responsibility for an attack on an American vessel. The move to reclassify the Houthis was aimed at increasing pressure on the group, but it appears …

19-01-2024 NEW YORK: A killer Arctic freeze has killed 27 across America as ice storms continue to pound the Pacific Northwest and the Northeast braces for more snow. Several of those deaths have been attributed to hypothermia and car accidents on frozen roads as arctic conditions grip the nation. Tens …

19-01-2024 TOKYO: Japan Airlines (JAL) has appointed its first female president, marking a significant milestone in a nation grappling with a substantial gender gap in the workplace, CNN reported. Mitsuko Tottori, a seasoned executive who ascended from a cabin attendant role since joining JAL in 1985, is set to assume …

18-01-2024 BEIJING: China’s economy last year grew at one of its slowest rates in more than three decades, official figures showed Wednesday, as it was battered by a crippling property crisis, sluggish consumption and global turmoil. The figures were in line with expectations and even beat Beijing’s target but will …

18-01-2024 GUANTANAMO BAY/ KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysians Mohammed Nazir Bin Lep and Mohammed Farik Bin Amin have pleaded guilty to conspiring in the 2002 Bali bombings that killed more than 200 people. The two men appeared in front of a military court at the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay on …

18-01-2024 GAZA CITY/ THE HAGUE: No matter how it concludes, South Africa’s lawsuit in the International Court of Justice arguing Israel has violated the Genocide Convention will go down in history. It will either be remembered as the first step towards finally holding a rogue state accountable for repeated, longstanding …

18-01-2024 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies ISLAMABAD/ TEHRAN: Pakistan foreign ministry said that the strike inside its territory was “illegal and unacceptable act” after Iran targeted two bases belonging to Jaish al-Adl militants in Balochistan province using drones and missiles leading to a diplomatic crisis between Tehran …

18-01-2024 TEHRAN/ ISLAMABAD: Iran says it has hit a militant group in western Pakistan in a missile attack, its third air strike on another country this week after earlier attacks on targets in Iraq and Syria. Iranian state TV said the operation hit two sites in Balochistan linked to the …