DGCA suspends scheduled intl flights till July 15
Clears flights on selected routes
New Delhi: The aviation regulator DGCA said on Friday it is extending the suspension of scheduled international passenger flights in the country till July 15 but added that some international scheduled services on selected routes may be permitted on a case to case basis. Scheduled international passenger flights were suspended in India on March 23 […]
250 Indians stranded in Pakistan return home
Lahore: A batch of 250 Indian nationals stranded in Pakistan due to the lockdown returned to the country through the Wagah Corder on Friday. This is the second batch in as many days after 248 Indians returned home on Thursday. Now, around 250 Indians are stranded in Pakistan and will return to the country on […]
US report terms Pak ‘safe harbor’ for ‘terrorists’, Pak disappointed
India welcomes continuation in FATF grey list
Islamabad/New Delhi: Pakistan on Thursday expressed its disappointment over the US State Department’s report which described the country as a “safe harbor” for regionally-focused terrorist groups. The State Department, in its Congressional-mandated 2019 Country Reports on Terrorism, said on Wednesday that Pakistan remained a “safe harbor” for regionally-focused terrorist groups and that the suspension of […]
Turning crisis into opportunity: Pakistan plans to convert locust swarms into fertilizers
Islamabad: Pakistan has plans to convert locust swarms into fertilisers to tackle the massive pest invasion after it destroyed crops and vegetation on vast tracts of lands, which according to some reports poses a bigger threat to the country’s economy than the coronavirus pandemic. The Ministry of National Food Security and Research (NFS&R) has proposed […]
Pak air crash: Pak minister puts responsibility of plane hurtle on pilots
Says they were not focussed, were discussing coronavirus
Islamabad: The pilots of the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) plane that crashed last month were not focussed and they were discussing coronavirus during the flight, the country’s aviation minister told Parliament on Wednesday as he pointed out their “overconfidence and lack of concentration” as some of the reasons for the tragedy that killed 97 people […]
Coronascare: Hajj pilgrimage will be limited to few ‘thousands’
Dubai: A Saudi official said on Tuesday that the hajj pilgrimage, which usually draws up to 2.5 million Muslims from all over the world, will only see at the most a few thousand pilgrims next month due to concerns over the spread of the coronavirus. The kingdom’s Hajj Minister Muhammad Benten said a small and […]
Easing of lockdown increases Covid-19 numbers
Wellington: The number of global coronavirus cases continued to surge Tuesday in many large countries that have been lifting lockdowns, including the US, even as new infections stabilized or dropped in parts of Western Europe. India has been recording about 15,000 new infections each day, and some states on Tuesday were considering fresh lockdown measures […]
Jamia student Safoora Zargar gets bail
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court Tuesday granted bail to Jamia student Safoora Zargar, who is pregnant and was arrested under anti-terror law UAPA in a case related to communal violence in northeast Delhi during protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act, as Solicitor General Tushar Mehta did not oppose it on humanitarian grounds. At the […]
Corona-scare: World shares slip as global virus tally approaches 9 million
Bangkok: World stock markets mostly traded lower Monday as reports of new coronavirus infections in the U.S. and worldwide surged, with the global total approaching 9 million. European markets opened lower after a mixed session in Asia, though Wall Street futures were up slightly. Britain’s FTSE 100 lost 0.4% to 6,265 and the CAC 40 […]
India’s COVID-19 tally crosses 4 lakh with highest single-day spike of 15,413 cases
New Delhi: Eight days after recording three lakh COVID-19 cases, India went past the four lakh-mark on Sunday with the biggest single-day spike of 15,413 new infections, while the death toll rose to 13,254 with 306 new fatalities, according to Union Health Ministry data. India took 64 days to cross the 1 lakh-mark from 100 […]