JAKARTA:Semeru volcano in Indonesia’s East Java province erupted on Friday spewing hot ashes, and local authorities have warned people to stay away from the area. According to the Semeru Volcano Monitoring Post, the volcano exploded at 9:23 a.m. local time, launching hot ashes as far as 700 meters from the crater to the southeast, Xinhua […]
CHANDIGARH/NEW DELHI:Gangster Sukhdul Singh, alias Sukha Duneke, one of Punjab’s most wanted criminals, was killed in the Canadian city of Winnipeg by unidentified persons, sources said on Thursday. “It is believed to be the result of inter-gang rivalry,” a source said. The killing of the Canada-based gangster who faced at least 18 cases, including murder, […]
TORONTO:Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday said he was not looking to “provoke” India or “escalate” tensions, but urged New Delhi to take the killing of a Sikh separatist leader with the “utmost seriousness”. Trudeau’s comments came hours after Canada and India expelled a senior diplomat each following his allegations about the involvement of […]
NEW DELHI:India on Tuesday outrightly rejected as “baseless” and “motivated” Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s claim of a “potential link” between Indian government agents and the killing of a Khalistani separatist leader, and sought prompt legal action against anti-India elements operating from Canada. After Trudeau made the comments in Parliament, Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly […]
SHARJAH:Salam Pappinissery, CEO of Yab Legal Group, UAE and founder of Global Pravasi Association (GPA), has been selected as the chief guest at the International Peace Conference in Bangladesh. The seminar will be held on Septermber 23 in Dhaka. This is the first time, an Indian is attending the Dhaka International Peace Conference as the […]
SEOUL:North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s special train appears to be moving toward Russia’s Far Eastern city of Khabarovsk on Thursday, a day after his rare summit with President Vladimir Putin, sources said.According to the sources, Kim’s olive green, bulletproof train appears headed toward the Russian city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur, where he will visit an aircraft factory, […]
SAN FRANCISCO:A woman in the US accidentally gulped down one of her Apple Airpods thinking of it as a vitamin, a report has claimed. Tanna Barker is going viral after admitting in a TikTok video that she swallowed one of her AirPods, reports Android Authority. In the video, she explained that she was out for […]
CANBERRA:High overseas migration has driven Australia’s rate of population growth to its highest level in 15 years, according to official data issued on Thursday. The data published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) revealed that the country’s population grew by 2.17 per cent in the 12 months to the end of March to 26.47 […]
BEIJING:Typhoon Haikui, the 11th typhoon of this year, has forced 294,100 residents to temporarily evacuate in China’s coastal Fujian province, authorities said on Thursday. As of 5 p.m. Wednesday, torrential rains brought by the typhoon had disrupted the lives of nearly 1.6 million people in the province, Xinhua news agency quoted the disaster management authorities […]
WASHINGTON:US President Joe Biden will arrive in New Delhi on Friday and is scheduled to hold a Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the White House informed. Beginning Friday, Biden has a packed schedule for three days. After he departs from the US, he will arrive in Ramstein,Germany on Friday for a brief stop over and will […]