2021

According to reports, a brawl took place regarding amendments to the country's constitution, following which MPs were caught punching and shoving each other whilst exchanging furious insults…

Omicron has forced thousands of flight cancellations and delays around the globe because of staffing shortages linked to the virus, scrambling travelers' holiday plans.…

A conflict between Russia and Ukraine, with the latter supported by the US and Europe, would be in no one’s interest The last several weeks have witnessed a severe…

HONG KONG: Hong Kong police were raiding the office of an online news outlet on Wednesday after arresting six people for conspiracy to publish a seditious publication. More than 200 officers were taking part in the search, police said.…

ISLAMABAD: The defeat of Imran Khan-led Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) party in local elections of Khyber Pakhtunkhawa shows a clear sign of crack between the military establishment and the ruling party. Khan's ascendancy to the…

PORTBLAIR: An earthquake of magnitude 4.3 on the Richter scale jolted Southeast of Portblair in the early hours of Wednesday, the National Center for Seismology (NCS) informed. According to NCS, the tremors of the earthquake had a depth…

Flowers are placed at the Solovetsky Stone memorial as supporters of the human rights group International Memorial gather after Russia's Supreme Court ruled that International Memorial must be liquidated for breaking the law on foreign…

ISLAMABAD: PM Imran Khan’s cabinet approved on Tuesday a security plan described by the government as Pakistan's first national security policy (NSP) aimed at guiding the country’s economic foreign and defence policies. “It is a truly…

New York City will eliminate its current policy of quarantining entire classrooms exposed to the coronavirus and will instead prioritise a ramped-up testing programme so that asymptomatic students testing negative for Covid-19 can remain…

LONDON: Britain reported a record 129,471 new cases of Covid-19 on Tuesday, a day after Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he would not bring in new restrictions to limit the spread of the virus this year. The data did not include figures…