Miscellaneous

Kuala Lumpur: Malaysia's Kuala Lumpur High Court on Thursday sentenced Rosmah Mansor, the wife of former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, to 10 years in prison in connection with a corruption scandal around the national investment fund…

New Delhi: Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will pay a state visit to India from Sept 5 to Sept 8 this year, Ministry of External Affairs announced on Thursday." During the visit she would call on President Droupadi Murmu, Vice…

Seoul: South Korea's foreign minister said Wednesday that his government is "deeply concerned" about the North Korean human rights issue as he had a meeting with the newly appointed UN special rapporteur on the matter in Seoul. "Our…

Kolhapur: Maharashtra Higher and Technical Education Minister Chandrakant Patil announced on Tuesday that the polytechnic and engineering syllabus books will be translated in Marathi language and also tools will made available to students…

Mumbai: A local Borivali court here on Tuesday remanded actor producer Kamal Rashid Khan, popularly known as KRK, for his alleged controversial tweet of 2020 into Judicial custody till September 12. He will be sent to Taloja jail in…

Dhaka: Two mortar shells fired from Myanmar landed near the Tambru North neighborhood in Bangladesh's Bandarban district, officials said on Monday. There were no casualties. Salma Ferdous, a local Bangladeshi official, said the shells…

Gibraltar: Gibraltar can officially call itself a city, 180 years after it was first granted the status by Queen Victoria. The British overseas territory had bid to become a city earlier this year as part of the Queen's Platinum Jubilee.…

London: British rocket startup Skyrora is gearing up for a potential launch of a single-stage suborbital vehicle from Iceland in the next few months, paving the way for its first rocket launch from Scotland in 2023. The launch of the…

Washington: Two US Navy ships are passing through international waters in the Taiwan Strait, in what is the first such naval operation since US-China tensions escalated after US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan, Reuters reports…

Vienna: The Austrian Interior Ministry told Sputnik it could not confirm reports about an alleged murder of Ukrainian citizen Natalia Vovk, a suspect in the killing of Daria Dugina. Earlier in the day, the Exxpress news outlet reported…

Boston: Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla addressed members of the Indian Diaspora in Boston. In his address, he said that today, the world listens when India speaks. In this regard, he mentioned policy interventions in rural development,…

Amritsar: With the arrest of seven persons, including a man who had planted an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) beneath the Sub-Inspector’s car in Amritsar, Punjab Police has unraveled yet another case of terrorist-gangster nexus working…

Kangra: In a major development for the state's health sector Dr. RP Govt Medical College, Tanda has been listed as 13th top medical college in Government sector as per Outlook-ICARE rankings, a ranking by the Outlook magazine, one of the…

Lucknow: A man attempted self-immolation inside Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) office on Friday night, police sources said here. Police sources said that one Balram Tiwari, a resident of Amrapali Colony in Thakurganj area, reached BJP office…

Washington: The United States suspended 26 passenger flights operated by Chinese carriers after Beijing's aviation agency took similar action to mitigate the spread of Covid-19, the US Transportation Department said. "We therefore…

Washington: American pharmaceutical company Moderna said Friday it is suing Pfizer and BioNTech, alleging that the competitors copied its mRNA technology to make their own COVID-19 vaccine. "Moderna, Inc. (NASDAQ:MRNA), a biotechnology…

Ankara: The exports of Turkish goods to Russia from May to July of this year exceeded $2 billion, Turkish broadcaster Haberturk reported on Friday, citing the Turkish Statistical Institute (Turk Stat). According to the Turk Stat's data,…