16-08-2022 Bureau Report + BBC NEW DELHI/ SIACHEN GLACIER: The body of an Indian soldier who went missing 38 years ago in the Himalayas has been discovered, BBC reported. In 1984, Chandrashekhar Harbola and 19 colleagues were caught in an avalanche while patrolling in the Siachen glacier along the India-Pakistan …
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16-08-2022 MEXICO CITY: Police believe the son of the prime suspect in the killings of four Muslim men may have played a role in the murders, which have shaken the Muslim community in New Mexico’s largest city. Cellphone data shows Shaheen Syed, 21, was in the same “general area” of …
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16-08-2022 TAIPEI: Taiwan accused China of exaggeration on Tuesday after the Chinese military published footage of the strategically located Penghu islands, where there is a major Taiwanese air base, saying it was not true Chinese forces had come near the islands. China, which claims Taiwan as its territory, has carried …
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16-08-2022 LONDON: In a modern nuclear war, five billion people will perish, but the impact of global starvation induced by sunlight-blocking pollution will likely far outweigh the losses inflicted by the explosions, Bloomberg reported, quoting a study. Rutgers University scientists drew out the impacts of six potential nuclear conflict scenarios. …
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16-08-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: To mark their protest, Kashmiri hackers hacked the website of the Indian Embassy in Egypt on the Independence Day of the country. Kashmir Freedom Fighters Hackers reportedly hacked the website as a sign of protest. The hackers placed Pakistan’s flag on the website. On the …
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15-08-2022 HOUSTON/ WASHINGTON: Rick LaBrode has worked at NASA for 37 years, but he says the American quest to return to the Moon is by far the crowning moment of his career. LaBrode is the lead flight director for Artemis 1, set to take off later this month, the first …
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15-08-2022 Bureau Report KABUL/ NEW DELHI: The Afghan foreign ministry has demanded the Indian government complete unfinished developmental projects in Afghanistan, Ariana News reported, as the country desperately seeks to stabilise the socio-economic situation. In a statement issued last Saturday, the foreign ministry of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) …
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15-08-2022 CAIRO: Funerals have been held in two Cairo churches for 41 victims of a fire that ripped through a Coptic Christian church during mass, forcing worshippers to jump out of windows. The blaze on Sunday, blamed on an electrical fault, hit the Abu Sifin church in densely populated Imbaba, …
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14-08-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW YORK/ NEW DELHI/ LONDON/ KARACHI: Salman Rushdie has been taken off a ventilator and is now able to talk, a friend and his agent said, a day after the acclaimed novelist was stabbed as he prepared to give a lecture in New York. Rushdie, …
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14-08-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Taliban fighters beat women protesters and fired into the air on Saturday as they violently dispersed a rare rally in the Afghan capital, days ahead of the first anniversary of the group’s return to power. Since seizing control on August 15 …
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