Myanmar security forces intensify crackdown on protesters
Yangon: Security forces in Myanmar pointed guns toward anti-coup protesters and attacked them with sticks on Monday, seeking to quell the large-scale demonstrations calling for the military junta that seized power earlier this month to reinstate the elected government. More than 1,000 protesters rallied in front of the Myanmar Economic Bank in Mandalay, the country’s […]
Support grows for Capitol riot inquiry after Trump acquittal
Washington: After former President Donald Trump’s acquittal at his second Senate impeachment trial, bipartisan support appears to be growing for an independent Sept. 11-style commission into the deadly insurrection that took place at the US Capitol. Investigations into the riot were already planned, with Senate hearings scheduled later this month in the Senate Rules Committee. […]
Optimism: Oxford University launches COVID-19 vaccine study on children
London: The University of Oxford has launched the first study to assess the safety and immune responses in children and young adults of its coronavirus vaccine. The university said that previous trials of its ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 jabs, which are being produced by AstraZeneca and also have a tie-up with the Serum Institute of India, have […]
UN rights body trains spotlight on Myanmar following coup
Geneva: The UN’s top human rights body held an urgent session on Friday to discuss the military coup in Myanmar, facing a call for the release of people arbitrarily detained including civilian government leader Aung San Suu Kyi and more action by UN officials to increase scrutiny of the country. The Human Rights Council has […]
Pak test-fires surface-to-surface cruise missile
Islamabad: Pakistan on Thursday conducted a successful training launch of a surface-to-surface cruise missile which can strike targets up to 450 kilometres, the Army said, the country’s third missile test in three weeks. The Babar missile “is capable of engaging targets at land and sea with high precision, the Army said in a statement, adding […]
India run by four people: Rahul Gandhi
New Delhi: Stepping up the attack against the government over the three farm laws, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday alleged that these legislations would damage country’s food security system as also “break the spine of farmers” and that the country is being run by only four people with a ‘Hum do, Hamare do’ approach. […]
Covid-19: 68.26 lakh healthcare, frontline workers vaccinated: Health Ministry
New Delhi: The number of healthcare and frontline workers vaccinated against COVID-19 reached 68.26 lakh on Wednesday, the 26th day of the countrywide inoculation programme, the Union Health Ministry said. The cumulative number of beneficiaries vaccinated against the coronavirus till Wednesday 6 pm through 1,42,455 sessions is 68,26,898, as per a provisional report, the ministry […]
Coronavirus unlikely to have leaked from China lab: WHO
Wuhan (China): The coronavirus is unlikely to have leaked from a Chinese lab and is more likely to have jumped to humans from an animal, a World Health Organisation expert said on Tuesday. WHO food safety and animal diseases expert Peter Ben Embarek made the assessment at the end of a visit to the central […]
Money laundering charges: ED raids news portal, its promoters
New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday conducted searches at multiple premises linked to a news portal, its promoters and some others in connection with a money laundering probe, official sources said. They said about eight premises were raided that included those of the website — NewsClick — and its promoters in South Delhi’s […]
Al-Qaeda, TTP oversaw reunification of splinter groups in Afghanistan: UN
United Nations: Moderated by Al Qaeda, terror group Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) is reported to have overseen a reunification of splinter groups in Afghanistan, a development that was expected to increase the threat in the region, according to a UN report. The report noted that Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan was responsible for over 100 cross-border” attacks […]